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Radical
Radials at Ballyholme
A spectator friendly sailing spectacle at Ballyholme Yacht Club on Saturday afternoon (31st July) will round off a week of intense racing in the Laser Radial European Championships and provide the public with an accessible view of what racing high performance dinghies are really like.
Radical Radials will be a set of three showpiece races round marks set close inshore in Ballyholme Bay. Eight invited sailors will take part and will be easily identified by sponsorship logos on their sails. Sponsors are Harland and Wolff, Bank of Scotland, the Flagship Centre, The Yard, NI Events Company, Rooster Sailing, North Down Borough Council and UK Sport. This is an event unique to the Laser class.
Radical Radials will take place at about 4pm on Saturday afternoon.
The championship has attracted
the cream of Laser sailors from twenty-one countries and four continents to
the biggest one design dinghy-racing event ever to be held in Northern Ireland.
Not only are there two hundred sailors visiting Bangor but the total influx
is nearer seven hundred with the addition of parents, coaches, team managers,
on-the-water judges and results scorers.