Lucky Strike

I spent last weekend working in the press office for the Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta, with a few hours each day of frantic news-gathering for the daily report, in-Design work producing the newsletter, and interviewing the sailors.

Story of the weekend actually happened before the racing got underway – when Antix Dubh narrowly avoided being struck by lightning on its journey up from Cork. The blast hit the water 15 metres from the boat and fried the electronics for a time. Here, delivery skipper Rob O’Leary describes the incident.