NORTH SAILS SUCCESS IN ISORA AND RC35'S IN SCOTLAND

Maurice "Prof" O'Connell from North Sails Ireland reports that North-powered race boats had a "stunning" weekend's success on both sides of the Irish Sea at the Kip Regatta and ISORA race.

Speaking this morning, Prof said "We are delighted to see our wonderful clients achieve such great results and are thrilled to be a small part of that."

Kip Regatta

Firstly, in Kip Regatta in Scotland, the competitive 12 boat RC 35 division, Pat Kelly's J109 literally STORMed the event scoring 2,2,1,1 over the four race series sailed in very light airs. With input from Nigel Young from North Sails Ireland, "Storm II" is IRC-optimised with both symmetric and asymmetric spinnakers. For Kip Regatta, she was flying a newly designed 3Di mainsail and Code 2 jib plus a very special new A3 reaching kite made from a high tenacity polyester woven fabric.

Speaking after the event, "Storm II" helmsman Marty O'Leary said "She was going like a rocketship, the new main is noticeably quicker than the old one and the new A3 is mint - nearly a Code Zero. Once we had the lads on the rail, we were gone!"

1st RC35 Division (IRC) and Boat Of The Regatta J109 "Storm II" Pat Kelly Rush Sailing Club

ISORA

Secondly, In the 50 mile ISORA race on Saturday North-powered boats won all three IRC classes and the overall race. Prof was aboard Chris and Patanne Power-Smith's Aurelia, which took both the overall and IRC-0 win flying their new 155sqm composite A2 asymmetric. 1st Overall - J122 Aurelia - Chris & Patanne Power-Smith 1st IRC 0 - J122 Aurelia - Chris Power-Smith 1st IRC 1 - J109 Mojito - Peter Dunlop & Vicky Cox 1st IRC 2 - J97 Windjammer - Denis Power & Lindsay Casey