Kelly Family are Sailors of the Month for June (Regatta)

30th June 2022

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Rush to the top….Pat Kelly (centre) and his all-conquering crew from the J/109 Storm at RUYC in Bangor.

Sailing is often promoted as a family sport for all ages. But if anyone doubts that this can be happily achieved with racing success thrown in, then they only have to consider the Kelly clan of Rush SC with their J/109 Storm.

Aboard Storm, the patriarch Pat Kelly heads a multi-talented crew which includes three generations of his family, and they clearly demonstrated they’d lost none of the successful touch shown in previous years by winning overall in June’s four-day Bangor Town Regatta on Belfast Lough.

Published in Sailor of the Month, Howth YC, Bangor Town Regatta

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