After ten races sailed at the Mirror European Championships, Lough Ree YC pairing Caolan Croasdell & Alexander Farrell won with two bullets on the final day. Mel and Sophie Collins of hosts Royal Cork Yacht Club were second on 22 points with another RCYC pairing of Rory and Oisin MacAllister third on 25 points. Sarah White & Eoghan Duffy from Sligo YC took the Ladies prize & 6th overall.
John McGonigle, President of the International Mirror Association of Ireland tells me the event will be hosted by the Royal Cork Yacht Club
The address is Royal Cork Yacht Club, Lower road, Crosshaven, County Cork This is the oldest yacht club in the world and is located in a magnificent sailing area.
The program of events is as follows:
Measuring and warm up races
7th August Measuring
8th August Measuring and warm up races
Mirror European Championship
9th to 12th August
Alkar Technology, based in Binche, Belgium, have applied to World Sailing (ex-ISAF) for a licence to build GRP Mirror dinghies and are currently building their hull plug and mould.
In 2013, at the behest of Jim and Cormac, I wrote the following about Ryan and Michaela winning the Mirror Worlds. I did not know at that time, if that achievement should be described as a culmination, the end of the story, or just another chapter,but Jim and Cormac had asked me to put our family’s experiences down in writing, so that they could be shared by others – so I wrote it as I saw it then.
