The Dublin Judges Group is an informal grouping of ISA Judges (and would-be judges) in the Greater Dublin area.

The group provides a useful service for clubs, classes by transmitting their requests for judges to man protest committees for events.

The social highlight of the group's year is our annual dinner. The dinner will be held in NYC tomorrow (Friday, 3rd February).

All judges, or indeed anyone who enjoys a discussion of the more arcane points of the rules, is welcome. It is not too late to book your place at this prestigious, and sometimes raucous, gathering.

Please contact the group at [email protected]

With just 24 hours to go to the announcement of sailing's boat of the year award at tomorrow's Cork harbour ICRA conference the consistent poll topper from Afloat's online survey shows ISORA offshore champion Raging Bull as a clear favourite with 1175 votes. Second is Marinerscove on 873 and Errislannan third on 256 votes. Polling began just over a month ago and 2,600 votes have been cast. See the poll on the left hand column of the home page. There's still time to cast your vote to try and influence ICRA judges!