Light conditions dominated the opening day of Cork Week at Crosshaven yesterday (Monday) as the estimated 5,000 sailors began racing in the five-race series.

After a prolonged delay in a near calm, a gentle sea breeze started with enough force to keep the fleet racing for a couple of legs so that results could be scored. Forecasts of 10 knots for today offer some hope of relief and a full race programme.

Benny Kelly’s Transpac 52 emerged overall leader of Class Super Zero, home of the exotics including Bill Buckley and Charlie Browns’ Maximus who fell foul of the short course and light airs to finish second from last in the class.

Colm Barrington’s new Kerr 50 footer Magic Glove scored first in Class Zero after a runaway lead against 15 other contenders.

Elsewhere in the 402 boat combined entry, Ian Southworth leads the Laser SB3 class while the largest racing fleet in Class 2 is being led by Donal O’Leary’s X-35 D-Tox.

Results

IRC Super 0
1 Panthera Benny Kelly 1
2 Oystercatcher Richard Matthews 2
3 Formidable 3 P.W. Vroon 3

IRC0
1 Magic Glove Colm Barrington 1
2 CODIAM ENSP dh NICOLEAU/LODAY 2
3 Dark & Steamy Nick and Annie Haigh 3

IRM
1 Farrfalina Robert Goddard 1
2 Audacious David Wadsworth and Neil Lamont 2
3 Creative Play H2O Yachting 3

IRC1
1 Jump Juice Conor and Denise Phelan 1
2 Marinerscove.ie David Dwyer 2
3 Cracklin Rosie Jean Phillippe Cau 3

IRC2
1 D-Tox Donal O Leary 1
2 Kiss David Pinner 2
3 Checkmate Mike McCarthy 3

IRC3
1 Raptor Hewitt/McCarthy 1
2 X-Perience Peter Evans 2
3 Indiscretion Richard Fildes 3

IRC4
1 Esperanto Alfa Romeo 1
2 Blue Berret Pi E. Connellan/T. Madigan 2
3 Fixation Nick Fullagar 3

IRC5
1 ALIG8R Brian McKernan 1
2 CUL8R Team CUL8R 2
3 Blackadder Dr Jonathon Price-Jones 3

IRC6
1 Bluff Alex Ballot 1
2 Throbber Stephen Rees 2
3 Bandit Ian Travers 3

Corporate Class
1 Strata 3 East Anglian Sea School 1
2 Aberlady Ann Ryan and Nick Hodshon 2
3 Assarain II Ross Ireland 3

Gentleman’s Class
1 Crystal Light Michael Powell 1
2 Aras Tim McNamara 2
3 Adventurer Philip Llewhellin 3

J/109
1 No Naked Flames Andrew Allen/Colm Monahan 1
2 Mono of Gibraltar John Bassadone 2
3 King Louie Fiona and Malcolm Thorpe 3

X332

1 Brightwork Bob and Jon Baker 1
2 Xpletive Michael John Crompton 2
3 Dexterity Team Foynes 3.5
3 X-Rated John and Gair Gordon 3.5

Sigma 38

1 Premier Cru Simon Brock and James Barr 1
2 The Project Andy Budgen / Freddie Schwin 2
3 Arbitrator Peter Hopps and Hilary Cook 3

Sunsail Sunfast 37

1 Sunsail 76 Sunsail 1
2 Sunsail 72 Sunsail 2
3 Sunsail 68 Sunsail 3

Mixed Sports Boats

1 No Limit Ray Cook 1
2 Elf Christine Leiper and Robin Murray 2
3 Jenga Marie-Claude and Paul Heys 3

SB3

1 SMALL BUT STEAMY IAN SOUTHWORTH 1
2 Team Maclaren Christina Summerhayes 2
3 Bandit Martin Head and Hugh McAdoo 3

Hunter 707

1 Swallow Gordon Craigen 1
2 Darkness Patrick Miles 2
3 Sparkle Paul Curtis 3

1720

1 Dark Side Charles Swingland 1
2 Wet n Black Nicholas O Leary 2
3 Storm Norman Armstrong / Brett Lewis 3

Beneteau 31.7

1 Flying Machine Barry Cunningham 1
2 Levante Brian Leyden/Michael Leahy 2
3 Attitude D Owens, J Sugars et all 3

Prima 38

1 Mighty Max 3 Andy Williams 1
2 Longbow P Anderson 2
3 Another Nods Richard and Helen Booth 3