I was very fortunate,” said Harold Cudmore, reminiscing about the early years of his long and illustrious sailing career. Not only did his father have a 1930s 6-Metre called Vaara, and then Auretta, a McGruer-designed Romella class (on which, as a mid-teenager, he sailed from his native Cork to Falmouth: “my first ever adventure and a very happy memory”) and subsequently an 8-Metre cruiser/racer called Namara, but regularly sailing from his home club – the Royal Cork Yacht Club – were a 30 Square Metre, two 6-Metres, four 8-Metres and a 12-Metre. “So that was the influence in my life,” he said.
Since then he has, the top scoring individual boat, and four years later when he was part of the winning British team on .
