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The Royal St. George Yacht Club will played host to an International Match Racing competition on 24th & 25th July 2010.
At this event, Ireland's top six Match Racing Teams sailed head to head against a World Team, consisting of six international teams from France, Germany, Australia, New Zealand and the UK.
The Irish Skippers were RSGYC Members; John Sheehy, Andrew Fowler, Maurice (Prof) O'Connell, Sam Hunt, Marty O'Leary and Graham Elmes.
The RSGYC International Match Racing Challenge 2010 will took place over the same weekend as the Dun Laoghaire Festival of World Cultures

The World wins the International Match Racing Challenge 2010
Posted by John Sheehy to International Match Racing Challenge 2010
The final score was 36 wins to the World, 29 to Ireland.

Conditions were more favourable on Sunday and the 66 Race Round Robin was completed. The overall team trophy was in balance until the final few flights, but the World team did enough to edge out the Irish Challenge.

Romain Baggio and his Bordeaux Racing team sailed an impeccable series only losing the one race to Keith Swinton of Australia to take the Individual win.

Final Skipper results after 12 races each are:

Baggio (FRA) 11 wins(91%)

Nicholas (AUS) 10 wins(82%)

Cornah (GBR) 7 wins (64%)

Swinton (AUS) 8 WIns (73%) minus 1 point penalty

Elmes (IRL) 6 Wins (55%)

Sheehy (IRL) 6 Wins (55%)

O'Connell (IRL) 5 wins (45%)

Hunt (IRL) 4 wins (36%)

Fowler (IRL) 4 wins (36%)

Duncan (NZL) 3 wins (30%)

O'Leary (IRL) 3 wins (30%)

Huckstadt (GER) 0 wins (0%)

John Sheehy 086 805 3775 or Ciara Dowling, on 0872235148 or Email:

E: events@matchracing.ie

rsgycmajorevents@ciara.ie

W: www.matchracing.ie/challenge