Irish sailor Eve McMahon has delivered a dream outcome to her 2022 season by retaining her youth world championship title in Houston, Texas tonight after delivering more race wins on the final day of the series.Ĭompeting in the single-handed ILCA6 class (formerly known as the Laser Radial), the Howth Yacht Club sailor has added this second world title to Gold medals at the Youth Sailing World Championships in the Netherlands and the Youth ILCA6 European Championships in Greece.Īfter the weather halted the event schedule on Friday, three races were sailed on Saturday with multiple wins for the Irish sailor who has comprehensively won the championship. Every mile is hard won.Įve McMahon wins Gold hat-trick for Ireland Hand-steering for long watches on cold winter nights can be frustrating – and exhausting. It’s also probable that in drifting conditions on a lumpy sea their autohelms weren’t sufficiently responsive. The two-handers, who would have given many of the conventional yachts a decent fight on IRC and ORCi during the medium-to-fresh Sydney-Hobart in December, struggled to sail to their handicaps.Ĭonstant sail changes and the energy-sapping need to chase every puff of wind clearly took their toll. It’s natural to think that the heavier the conditions the more disadvantaged a two-handed boat should be racing against fully crewed entrants.īut the 384nm Sydney-Gold Coast Race just completed in predominantly light winds on the Australian east coast might indicate the opposite. Conditions were light, and the results not quite as expected. The Sydney-Gold Coast Race was the first offshore event in Australia in which two-handed and fully crewed boats competed within the same divisions.
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