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UCD Sailing club won Colours this year, denying Trinity a fifth successive win at the event.

The annual Sailing Colours Match took place last Easter Saturday 3^rd April in Dun Laoghaire harbour, hosted by Trinity College Dublin and the Royal St. George Yacht Club. Colours sports events – when arch rivals UCD and Trinity go head to head - is for some the most important event of the year (families have been torn apart over it), and the sailing colours is no exception.

With a year of bragging rights up for grabs, rights which UCD Sailing have not had since 2005, the club was keen to perform at this year’s event. The club’s annual trip to the Stations of the Cross on Good Friday was cancelled to allow for pre-event on the water training, with each team member going home to wash their UCD Sailing jacket and to get an early night before the big day.

Although the wind was light, boats were successfully launched mid Saturday morning, with conversation and fraternising between the two colleges kept to a minimum. The traditional schedule of the sailing event is based on the following racing format. All sailing teams firsts to sixths, including a ladies team and an alumni team, race their respective team from the opposite college, yet the college that wins the event depends entirely on the result of the races between the UCD First and Trinity First teams.

Teams UCD2 and UCD4 had wins against their respective Trinity teams in their best of three races, with UCD3 narrowly missing out on a win when a team boat sailed around the wrong mark in their last race. Trinity’s thirds, fifths, sixths, alumni and ladies’ teams took wins in their races.

The wind had filled in by the time the two colleges’ first teams came to race. Tight racing and a lot of shouting brought the “best of five” final to the fifth deciding race. UCD took the last race making the score 3-2 in their favour, winning the 2010 Colours Sailing, and denying Trinity a successive “five in a row” at the event.

UCD would like to thank Trinity and all involved in the organising of the event. Colours marks the end of UCD’s sailing season for the 09/10 Academic year, and with UCDSC set to host next year’s IUSA Intervarsity event, the club are already looking forward to next year’s sailing season.

Written by Sharon Quigley, UCD Sailing Captain 09/10

UCD1

Barry McCartin/ Anne Collins, Rory Murphy/ Danielle Vincent, Nick Harger/ Katie Curtin

UCD2

Andrew O’Donoghue/ Gillan Condy, Theo Murphy/Christine Lynch, Alyson Rumball/ Jodie-Jane Tingle

UCD3

Daniel McCarthy/ Chloe Halpenny, Rob McTernan/ Mary Lucey, Matthew Murphy/Sharon Quigley

UCD4

Conor Kinsella/ Aoife Cooney, Eoin Duggan/ Ellen Cahill, Aileen Boyle/ Muireann O’Sullivan

UCD5

Donal Murphy/ Catriona Ni Murchu, Jamie Conlon/Aisling Carney, Kevin Doherty/ Caroline Shaw

UCD6

Maria Dolan/ Aoife Cooney, Olly Vivian/ Mairead Ward, Raymond Carley