#DBSC – The club's only Jezequel 116 marque, Cri-Cri skippered by Paul Colton who last November picked up the trophy for 'the best new boat on the DBSC racing scene' at the annual DBSC prizegiving has also won the 2012 Spring Chicken Series.

Cri Cri shared the overall after four races sailed on modified ECHO and although she was overtaken in race five she was back at the top of the 40 boat fleet in time for yesterday's prizegiving at the National Yacht Club.

Just one and a half points behind was White Knight with Legally Blonde third.

Full fleet results for the 40-boat Viking Marine Spring Chicken results are available for download below.

#DBSC – The Sadler 34 Lady Rowena (David Bolger) leads Dublin Bay Sailing Club's (DBSC) Spring Chicken Series by a single point into next Sunday's final race.

Because handicaps are revised each week any one of the top ten boats can still win the series with only 15–points difference separating first and tenth place. The full overall results are available to download below.

Second overall on 42–points is the Beneteau 31.7, Legally Blonde (Cathal Drohan) and third Declan Hayes's J109 Indecision from the Royal Irish Yacht Club.

Over 43–boats are competing in the Viking Marine sponsored pre–season warm up in advance of April's DBSC summer season that starts in seven weeks time on Saturday, April 21st.

The normally well attended annual Spring Chicken final prizegiving (of Easter eggs among other items) will be held at the National Yacht club immediately after racing next Sunday.

Meanwhile Howth Yacht Club is inviting DBSC sailors across the bay for the Key Capital Spring Warmer Series that precedes the Dublin Bay summer series.

Howth are organising two races a day over three Saturday's in April. The fleets will be split over two windard–leeward race courses.

Howth are promoting the event as a great practice series for the Howth based ICRA Nationals the following month.

The €100 entry fee includes berthing/hard standing for the three weeks.

#DUBLIN BAY – Although over 40 Dublin Bay Cruisers got some specacular downwind sailing in yesterday morning in the penultimate round of the Dublin Bay Spring Chicken Series the strong north westerlies put paid to yesterday afternoon's DMYC Frostbite racing. The fixture was blown off in blustery conditions about five minutes before the commencement of the start sequence when wind strengths went into the high twenties!

Full DBSC results on this site later.

#DBSC – After four races sailed and one discard applied a Jezequel 116 and a Beneteau First 36.7  share first place in the popular Dublin Bay Sailing Club Spring Chicken series, the first racing of the 2012 season.

The club's only Jezequel 116 marque, Cri-Cri is skippered by Paul Colton who last November picked up the trophy for 'the best new boat on the DBSC racing scene' at the annual DBSC prizegiving.

Colton now shares the lead with Lula Belle, a First 36.7 that has had success offshore. Last season the Dun Laoghaire yacht won an ISORA overnight race to North India buoy.

Full fleet results for the 40-boat Viking Marine Spring Chicken results are available for download below.

#SPRING CHICKEN – Inspite of winning last Sunday's race Calypso, a Beneteau Oceanis 361 from the Royal St. George Yacht Club, lies 21st overall in the 43-boat DBSC Spring Chicken Series fleet, some 30–points behind overall leader Legally Blonde.

Second overall and joint eighth last Sunday is White Knight. Full results are attached below for download.

The fourth race of the Viking Marine sponsored series takes place on Sunday morning.

#WHITE SAILS – Dublin Bay's White Sails fleet meets at the Royal Irish Yacht Club on March 6th to discuss new progressive ECHO and the 2012 racing schedule. The meeting will also include details of training days for the class, now one of the biggest on Dublin Bay. The DBSC White sail season kicks off Saturday, April 21st.

#DBSC – Peridot leads the overall standings in the Viking Marine sponsored Spring Chicken Series on Dublin Bay. The Mustang 30 leads Lula Belle (Beneteau 36.7) by a single point as the series approaches the half way point this Sunday. Joint third in the 42-boat fleet are two J109 designs; early leader Indecision and Joker 2. Full results are downloadable below in word format.

#DUBLIN BAY SAILING – There were cheers for an Archambault A34 design last Sunday when Another Adventure was declared winner of the first race of the Viking Marine sponsored DBSC Spring Chicken Series. The local yacht beat Indecision, a J109, for race honours under the modified ECHO handicap rule. 38 boats are competing in the annual warm-up series that precedes the main DBSC season starting in April.

The results are downloadable below.

#DBSC – Dublin Bay Sailing Club will kick off the 2012 sailing season with a Spring Chicken series starting in two week's time on Sunday, February 5th.

A series of six races will be held on Sunday mornings under a modified ECHO handicap. Cruisers, cruising boats, one-designs and boats that do not normally race are very welcome. The event is sponsored by Boatshed.com.

The Entry fee of €60.00  includes temporary membership of Dublin Bay S.C. and National Y.C.

Entry forms are in Dun Laoghaire's waterfront clubs or are available to download here.

Sailing instructions will be available on Sunday 5th February and will be emailed to entrants beforehand.

After sailing, food will be available to competitors in the National Y.C.

Entries should be sent to Donal P. O'Sullivan, 72 Clonkeen Drive, Foxrock, D.18 before Tuesday 31st January.

#SAILING–A new sailing league for 2012 to bring an 'extra focus' to yacht racing in Dublin Bay was the talk of last night's Royal Alfred Yacht Club (RAYC) black-tie awards dinner in Dun Laoghaire. The RAYC racing club will re-launch the 'Superleague' concept – first staged in the 1990s – to a new generation of sailors in 2012 with the aim of 'rewarding the best boats, skippers and crews', across the whole season, in each class in Dublin Bay, the country's biggest sailing centre.

The Superleague will be open to all classes of keelboats in Dublin Bay. In 2011 there were 15 keelboat classes with 300 boats. Visitors from Howth or elsewhere will also be welcomed in to the league. 

The Superleague will consist of 10 individual events/races - six club Regattas - Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club, Royal Alfred Yacht Club, Howth Yacht Club, National Yacht Club, Royal Irish Yacht Club and Royal St George Yacht Club - together with four Dublin Bay Sailing Club Saturday races - 1 in May, July, August and September. There will be four discards with six results to count. 

Royal Alfred Commodore Peter Beamish believes the Superleague will bring an extra focus to racing in Dublin Bay without adding to an already cluttered event fixture list. It will increase the incentive to all boats to participate in the individual events which make up the Superleague. The club will also be awarding crew prizes which they hope will help boats build and motivate crew panels.

The hope is to provide very close overall results with final results in the balance right up to the last race in the series.

Full details of the RAYC superleague are being finalised and will be available in mid-December.