#SB20 – Andrew Algeo's Flutter took overall honours but only by one point in the first outing of the reformatted DBSC SB20 Sunday races with second and third being determined by countback between three boats. 19 boats turned out for the three windward leeward races.

SinBin (Barry O'Neill) took second and SandyBottom (Gordon Judge) third.

Last week the sportsboat class changed its racing format on the bay and following international developments the class also got a name change from SB3 to SB20.

Next weekend the National Yacht club stages the SB20 Eastern championships on the Bay. A Notice of Race is available to download below.

The next DBSC Sunday racing is the 20th of May. Again first gun is 12.30 with 3 races

#DBSC – In the cruisers one class there was a return to form for the Bay's Championship winning X-yacht design when 10-knot shifty winds from the north–east led to plenty of place changes across 19 classes in Saturday's Dublin Bay Sailing Club race. Colin Byrne's X-34 Xtravagance, the most successful yacht in the 2011 season, won in both IRC and ECHO handicaps. Last week's winner Gringo, a modified A35, skippered by DBSC commodore Tony Fox, was second and John Hall's J109 Something Else third in IRC.

In the one design classes Derek Mitchell's Ruff Nuff beat Diane ll (Andrew Claffey) in the Ruffian class with Ruff N Ready (Ann Kirwan et al) in third.

Full results for the Dublin Bay Sailing Club Results for 5 MAY 2012 are below:

BENETEAU 31.7 Echo- 1. Legally Blonde (C.Drohan/P.Egan), 2. Levante (B.Leyden/M.Leahy), 3. Bluefin Two (M & B Bryson)

BENETEAU 31.7 - 1. Thirty Something (Gerry Jones et al), 2. Levante (B.Leyden/M.Leahy), 3. Prospect (Chris Johnston)

CRUISERS 0 - 1. Loose Change (P Redden & M Mitton), 2. Wow (George Sisk), 3. Tsunami (Vincent Farrell)

CRUISERS 0 Echo - 1. Tsunami (Vincent Farrell), 2. Wow (George Sisk), 3. Lively Lady (Derek Martin)

CRUISERS 1 Echo - 1. Xtravagance (Colin Byrne), 2. Something Else (J.Hall et al), 3. Gringo (Tony Fox)

CRUISERS 1 - 1. Xtravagance (Colin Byrne), 2. Gringo (Tony Fox), 3. Something Else (J.Hall et al)

CRUISERS 2 Echo - 1. Red Rhum (J Nicholson & C Nicholson), 2. Graduate (D O'Keeffe), 3. Jawesome 11 (M Dyke & B Darcy)

CRUISERS 2 - 1. Red Rhum (J Nicholson & C Nicholson), 2. Jawesome 11 (M Dyke & B Darcy), 3. Peridot (Jim McCann et al)

CRUISERS 3 Echo - 1. Pamafe (Michael Costello), 2. Supernova (Shannon, Lawless, McCormack), 3. Cri-Cri (P Colton)

CRUISERS 3 - 1. Supernova (Shannon, Lawless, McCormack), 2. Quest (Jonathan Skerritt), 3. Pamafe (Michael Costello)

DRAGON - 1. Phantom (D.Williams), 2. Susele (Michael Halpenny), 3. Diva (R.Johnson/R.Goodbody)

FIREBALL Race 1- 1. Licence to Thrill (Louis Smyth), 2. No Name (McGuire & Chambers)

FIREBALL Race 2- 1. Licence to Thrill (Louis Smyth), 2. No Name (McGuire & Chambers), 3. GBH (M & P Keegan)

FLYING FIFTEEN Race 1- 1. Rollercoaster (Tom Murphy), 2. Fflogger (Alan Dooley), 3. As Good As It Gets (Ross Doyle)

GLEN - 1. Glendun (B.Denham et al), 2. Glencree (J.Bligh/H.Roche), 3. Glencorel (B.Waldock/K.Malcolm)

IDRA 14 FOOT Race 1- 1. Dart (Pierre Long), 2. Dunmoanin (Frank Hamilton), 3. Doody (J.Fitzgerald/J.Byrne)

IDRA 14 FOOT Race 2- 1. Dunmoanin (Frank Hamilton), 2. Dart (Pierre Long), 3. Doody (J.Fitzgerald/J.Byrne)

MERMAID - 1. Kim (D Cassidy)

PY CLASS Race 1- 1. E & R Ryan (RS400), 2. Hugh Sheehy (OK Dinghy), 3. Richard Tate (Laser)

PY CLASS Race 2- 1. Hugh Sheehy (OK Dinghy), 2. E & R Ryan (RS400), 3. Richard Tate (Laser)

RUFFIAN 23 - 1. Ruff Nuff (D & C Mitchell), 2. Diane ll (Andrew Claffey), 3. Ruff N Ready (Ann Kirwan et al)

SHIPMAN - 1. Curraglas (John Masterson), 2. Invader (Gerard Glynn), 3. Bluefin (B.Finucane et al)

SIGMA 33 - 1. Leeuwin (H&C Leonard & B Kerr), 2. White Mischief (Timothy Goodbody), 3. Moonshine (R.Moloney/D.O'Flynn)

SQUIB - 1. Kookaburra (P & M Dee), 2. Nimble (Brian O'Hare), 3. Anemos (Pete & Ann Evans)

SQUIB - 1. Kookaburra (P & M Dee), 2. Periguin (N Colcough)

WHITE SAIL CRUISERS Echo- 1. Zephyr (R Cahill-O'Brien), 2. Windshift (R O'Flynn et al), 3. Arwen (Philip O'Dwyer)

WHITE SAIL CRUISERS - 1. Arwen (Philip O'Dwyer), 2. Act Two (Michael O'Leary et al), 3. Persistence (C. Broadhead et al)

#DBSC – Four Fireballs took to the race course on the second Tuesday of the DBSC Summer series tonight. Just as the Frostbites didn't live up to their name this past winter, nor could it be said that the summer season racing was summery tonight. Rain, grey, low cloud, brisk water temperatures and a squally wind from ENE with a swell running straight through the harbour mouth made for challenging conditions.

The pace was frenetic with five laps of a windward-leeward on the menu for those who braved the conditions, Noel Butler & Stephen Oram (15061), Frank Miller & Grattan Donnelly (14713), Louise McKenna & Hermine O' Keefe (14691) and Louis Smyth & Cormac Bradley (15007).

Left side of the beat paid the first time with Messrs Miller & Smyth rounding the weather in tandem with Smyth on the inside. Butler was chasing hard and rounded almost immediately after them. A sleigh ride downwind with a late gybe thrown in and all three were in very close company at the first leeward mark.......maybe a tad too close.

Subsequent beats were split with Smyth favouring a right hand-side selection each time to the others who went left to varying degrees and each subsequent rounding of the weather mark saw Smyth there or thereabouts with the other two waiting to pounce.

Some of the downwind legs were being sailed by the lee – not a comfortable position given the wind conditions.

As to be expected, Butler/Oram led around the last weather mark by a boat length or two followed by Smyth/Bradley. These two went right. Miller/Donnelly went left and this gave the first two a nominal gap over the others at the finish.

DUBLIN PORT Dublin Bay Sailing Club Results for 1 MAY 2012

FIREBALL - 1. Noel Butler & Stephen Oram 2. Louis Smyth & Cormac Bradley 3. Frank Miller & Grattan Donnelly 4. Louis McKenna & Hermine O'Keefe.

IDRA 14 FOOT - 1. Dart (Pierre Long), 2. Dunmoanin (Frank Hamilton)

PY CLASS - 1. Hugh Sheehy (OK Dinghy), 2. Colin Galavan (Laser), 3. C Arrowsmith (Laser)

#SAILING NEWS – Stormy weather continues to frustrate early season sailing schedules. Wind and waves that produced spectacular trawler photos off Howth last week abated sufficiently to get Saturday morning's first ISORA race away and on Dublin Bay the second race of the Saturday afternoon series took place in excellent surfing conditions.

The strong winds have returned this morning though leaving anyone planning a trip across the Irish sea, be they coastal rowers, tall ships or dinghy experts, with a reminder about how rough things can get. From San Francisco, a survivor of the yachting tragedy there has spoken out about the need for tethering.

Yesterday afternoon the first race of the revised SB3 season on Dublin Bay was scrubbed and in other small craft news the Fireball class held its annual training clinic. Royal Cork Optimists are heading for Waterford in a strong position. A Portrush man is heading to Spain to defend his kayaking title and in rowing news Monika Dukarska came out on top after a battle with Afloat's Rower of the Year Holly Nixon.

And is adventure sailing a new tack for declining dinghy numbers?

All this and lots more on Afloat's home page this morning!

#DBSC – Stunning conditions on Dublin Bay produced wins for Jonathan Skerrit's Quest over bay champion Supernova (Ken Lawless) in today's Cruisers III class racing. Easterly winds and big waves combined to give great racing in the second Saturday of the Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) season even though there were some gaps in the line up with 18–boats heading outside the bay to contest the first ISORA offshore race of the season to Wicklow.

John Hall's Something Else came home first in Cruisers 1 ahead of Colin Byrne's X-34 Xtravangance. In Cruisers 2 the Corby 25 Smile from the National Yacht Club (O'Connell/Healy/O'Sullivan) beat Bendemeer (L Casey & D Power).

In the one design classes Michael McCambridge's Hy fibre was the winner of the first Flying Fifteen race but club mate Keith Poole in Gruffalo was the winner of the second race. Derek Mitchell's Ruff Nuff  beat Ann Kirwan saiing Ruff N Ready. Third was Diane ll (Andrew Claffey). Full results for Dublin Bay Sailing Club Results for 28 APRIL 2012 below:

Dublin Bay Sailing Club Results for 28 APRIL 2012

BENETEAU 31.7 Echo- 1. Extreme Reality (P.McSwiney/E.O'Rafferty), 2. Magic (D.O'Sullivan/D.Espey), 3. Prospect (Chris Johnston)

BENETEAU 31.7 - 1. Prospect (Chris Johnston), 2. Magic (D.O'Sullivan/D.Espey), 3. Extreme Reality (P.McSwiney/E.O'Rafferty)

CRUISERS 0 - 1. Wow (George Sisk), 2. Loose Change (P Redden & M Mitton)

CRUISERS 1 Echo - 1. Something Else (J.Hall et al), 2. Jump The Gun (M.Monaghan/J.Kelly), 3. Gringo (Tony Fox)

CRUISERS 1 - 1. Something Else (J.Hall et al), 2. Xtravagance (Colin Byrne)

CRUISERS 2 Echo - 1. Smile (O'Connell/Healy/O'Sullivan), 2. Bendemeer (L Casey & D Power), 3. Kamikaze (P.Nash/B.McIntyre)

CRUISERS 2 - 1. Smile (O'Connell/Healy/O'Sullivan), 2. Bendemeer (L Casey & D Power)

CRUISERS 3 Echo - 1. Cri-Cri (P Colton), 2. Pamafe (Michael Costello), 3. Supernova (Shannon, Lawless, McCormack)

CRUISERS 3 - 1. Quest (Jonathan Skerritt), 2. Supernova (Shannon, Lawless, McCormack), 3. Asterix (Counihan/Meredith/Bushell)

Combined Class 3 - 1. Quest (Jonathan Skerritt), 2. Supernova (Shannon, Lawless, McCormack), 3. Asterix (Counihan/Meredith/Bushell)

Combined Class 3 Echo - 1. Syzrgy (R Fogarty), 2. Cri-Cri (P Colton), 3. Pamafe (Michael Costello)

FLYING FIFTEEN Race 2- 1. Hi Fibre (Michael McCambridge), 2. Snow White (Frank Burgess), 3. The Gruffalo (Keith Poole)

FLYING FIFTEEN Race 1- 1. The Gruffalo (Keith Poole), 2. Frequent Flyer (D Mulvin), 3. Deranged (C.Doorly)

RUFFIAN 23 - 1. Ruff Nuff (D & C Mitchell), 2. Ruff N Ready (Ann Kirwan et al), 3. Diane ll (Andrew Claffey)

SHIPMAN - 1. Jo Slim (J.Clarke et al), 2. Whiterock (Henry Robinson), 3. Therapi (Alan McCarthy et al)

SIGMA 33 - 1. White Mischief (Timothy Goodbody), 2. Rupert (R & P Lovegrove), 3. Gwili Two (D.Clarke/P.Maguire)

SQUIB Race 1- 1. Femme Fatale (V Delaney), 2. Nimble (Brian O'Hare)

SQUIB Race 2- 1. Nimble (Brian O'Hare), 2. Femme Fatale (V Delaney)

WHITE SAIL CRUISERS Echo - 1. Calypso (Howard Knott), 2. Spirit (Colin O'Brien et al), 3. The Great Escape (P & D Rigney)

WHITE SAIL CRUISERS - 1. Calypso (Howard Knott), 2. Persistence (C. Broadhead et al), 3. Act Two (Michael O'Leary et al)

#DBSC – Maybe it was the photographs of the fishing trawler pulling out of Howth in the north easterly gale that led Dublin Bay skippers to believe tonight's first race of the DBSC season might be scrubbed or perhaps April is still too early in the sailing season for a full mid-week turnout?  Whatever the reason some early bird entries capitalised on the exciting 18-knot NNW breeze and lumpy seas for the first Thursday night race. One of those was Commodore Tony Fox, skipper of class one yacht Gringo (pictured above), who won on both IRC and ECho handicap. On IRC Gringo beat DBSC champion Colin Byrne's X-34 Xtravagance. Third in class one IRC was John Maybury's Joker II.

In the one design classes Justin Burke's Alert packaging won the SB3s beating class captain Doug Smith's Sacrebleu. Niall Coleman sailing Flyer was the winner of the Flying fifteen class.

The full results for the DUBLIN PORT Dublin Bay Sailing Club Results for 26 APRIL 2012 are below:

BENETEAU 31.7 Echo- 1. Avalon (R.Conan/J.Fox), 2. Bluefin Two (M & B Bryson), 3. Magic (D.O'Sullivan/D.Espey)

BENETEAU 31.7 - 1. Prospect (Chris Johnston), 2. Bluefin Two (M & B Bryson), 3. Magic (D.O'Sullivan/D.Espey)

CRUISERS 1 Echo - 1. Gringo (Tony Fox), 2. Joker 11 (John Maybury), 3. Something Else (J.Hall et al)

CRUISERS 1 - 1. Gringo (Tony Fox), 2. Xtravagance (Colin Byrne), 3. Joker 11 (John Maybury)

CRUISERS 2 Echo - 1. Free Spirit (John O'Reilly), 2. Peridot (Jim McCann et al), 3. Red Rhum (J Nicholson & C Nicholson)

CRUISERS 2 - 1. Peridot (Jim McCann et al), 2. Red Rhum (J Nicholson & C Nicholson), 3. Free Spirit (John O'Reilly)

CRUISERS 3 - 1. Asterix (Counihan/Meredith/Bushell), 2. Quest (Jonathan Skerritt), 3. Gossip (D Meredith)

CRUISERS 3 Echo - 1. Hyflyer (J Barnard), 2. Cri-Cri (P Colton), 3. Asterix (Counihan/Meredith/Bushell)

CRUISERS 3B Echo - 1. Small Wonder (H Kelly), 2. Yikes (J Conway)

FLYING FIFTEEN - 1. Flyer (Niall Coleman), 2. Hi Fibre (Michael McCambridge), 3. Deranged (C.Doorly)

RUFFIAN 23 - 1. Diane ll (Andrew Claffey), 2. Ruff N Ready (Ann Kirwan et al), 3. Shannagh (S.Gill/P.MacDiarmada)

SB3s - 1. Alert Packaging (Justin Burke), 2. Sacrebleu (D Smith)

SHIPMAN - 1. Jo Slim (J.Clarke et al), 2. Curraglas (John Masterson), 3. Invader (Gerard Glynn)

SIGMA 33 - 1. White Mischief (Timothy Goodbody), 2. Rupert (R & P Lovegrove), 3. Pippa lV (G.Kinsman/E.McMahon/M.O'Brien)

WHITE SAIL CRUISERS Echo - 1. Edenpark (Liam Farmer), 2. Calypso (Howard Knott)

WHITE SAIL CRUISERS - 1. Calypso (Howard Knott), 2. Edenpark (Liam Farmer)

#DUBLIN BAY – Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) Racing yachts have been asked by race organisers to give a marine data buoy stationed in Scotsman's Bay (Latitude: 53 17.51 N Longitude 006 07.00) a wide berth even though it may be on some DBSC race courses this season.

The buoy carries a lot of expensive research equipment and It's on the periphery of the Red fleet's Thursday courses and also the dinghy Tuesday evening courses.

A combined fleet of 300 boats race under the DBSC burgee on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sundays making the yachts the biggest leisure users of bay waters.

Competing boats might possibly meet the yellow buoy if on a port-hand tack when sailing a beat from 40 ft. mark to Bay Mark and vice versa.

#DBSC – Paddy McSwiney's Extreme Reality was the first Beneteau 31.7 home tonight in the first of Dublin Bay Sailing Club's (DBSC) Tuesday evening racing. In Cruisers III Kevin Glynn's Hanse Grasshopper continued its winning form from Saturday with a win tonight over Pamafe (Michael Costello).

Winds were south easterly and btween 8 to 10 knots.

On the dinghy course a good turnout of up to ten Fireballs was won by Frank Miller's Blind Squirrel. A ten boat PY turnout was populated with Lasers but won by an RS400 (E & R Ryan). Full results below:

DUBLIN PORT Dublin Bay Sailing Club Results for 24 APRIL 2012

BENETEAU 31.7 - 1. Extreme Reality (P.McSwiney/E.O'Rafferty), 2. Magic (D.O'Sullivan/D.Espey)

BENETEAU 31.7 - 1. Magic (D.O'Sullivan/D.Espey), 2. Extreme Reality (P.McSwiney/E.O'Rafferty)

CRUISERS 2 - 1. Borraine (Ean Pugh), 2. Cor Baby (Keith Kiernan et al)

CRUISERS 3 - 1. Grasshopper 2 (K & J Glynn), 2. Pamafe (Michael Costello), 3. Chouskikou (R.Sheehan/R.Hickey)

CRUISERS 3B - 1. Maranda (Myles Kelly), 2. Aslana (J Martin & B Mulkeen), 3. Yikes (J Conway)

FIREBALL - 1. Blind Squirrel (Frank Miller), 2. Licence to Thrill (Louis Smyth), 3. nn (S Oram)

GLEN - 1. Glendun (B.Denham et al), 2. Glenshane (P Hogan), 3. Glencorel (B.Waldock/K.Malcolm)

PY CLASS - 1. E & R Ryan (RS400), 2. P Keane (Laser 1), 3. D Cahill (Laser)

RUFFIAN 23 - 1. Diane ll (Andrew Claffey), 2. Alias (D.Meeke/M.McCarthy), 3. Ruff Nuff (D & C Mitchell)

#DBSC – Kevin Glynn's Hanse 301 Grashopper made the most of breezy north-westerly conditions to win the first race of the 2012 Dublin Bay Sailing Club season this afternoon in the Club's biggest class, the 43-boat combined Class Three. Second was the Superseal 26 Gung Ho (G & S O'Shea) and third was the First 28 Chouskikou (R.Sheehan/R.Hickey).

In the Beneteau 31.7 class Chris Johnston' s Prospect resumed her Dublin Bay campaign in her normal top slot. The Johnston entry beat Bluefin Two (M & B Bryson) on scratch. Third was Attitude (T Milner J Sugars M Branigan). In 2011 Prospect from the National Yacht Club won the Feanor trophy for the most successful one design performance in Thursday racing.

Full results below:

Paddy Maguire's Gwilli Two leads Tim Goodbody's White Mischief dowwind in the Sigma 33 race

Derek Martin's Lively Lady was second on ECHO in Cruisers Zero

DUBLIN PORT Dublin Bay Sailing Club Results for 21 APRIL 2012

BENETEAU 31.7 Echo- 1. Kernach (Eoin O'Driscoll), 2. Extreme Reality (P.McSwiney/E.O'Rafferty), 3. Fiddly Bits (Kevin Byrne et al)

BENETEAU 31.7 - 1. Prospect (Chris Johnston), 2. Bluefin Two (M & B Bryson), 3. Attitude (T Milner J Sugars M Branigan)

CRUISERS 0 Echo- 1. Tsunami (Vincent Farrell), 2. Lively Lady (Derek Martin)

CRUISERS 1 Echo- 1. Something Else (J.Hall et al), 2. Indecision (Declan Hayes et al), 3. Gringo (Tony Fox)

CRUISERS 1 - 1. Something Else (J.Hall et al), 2. Xtravagance (Colin Byrne), 3. Jalapeno (Dermod Baker et al)

CRUISERS 2 - 1. Peridot (Jim McCann et al), 2. Bendemeer (L Casey & D Power), 3. Antix (D Ryan)

CRUISERS 2 Echo - 1. Red Rhum (J Nicholson & C Nicholson), 2. Bendemeer (L Casey & D Power), 3. Peridot (Jim McCann et al)

CRUISERS 3 - 1. Grasshopper 2 (K & J Glynn), 2. Gung Ho (G & S O'Shea), 3. Chouskikou (R.Sheehan/R.Hickey)

CRUISERS 3 - 1. Gung Ho (G & S O'Shea), 2. Asterix (Counihan/Meredith/Bushell)

CRUISERS 3B Echo - 1. Syzrgy (R Fogarty), 2. Maranda (Myles Kelly), 3. Wynward (W McCormack)

Combined Classes 3- 1. Grasshopper 2 (K & J Glynn), 2. Gung Ho (G & S O'Shea), 3. Chouskikou (R.Sheehan/R.Hickey)

DRAGON - 1. Phantom (D.Williams), 2. Diva (R.Johnson/R.Goodbody), 3. Susele (Michael Halpenny)

FLYING FIFTEEN - 1. The Gruffalo (Keith Poole), 2. Rollercoaster (Tom Murphy), 3. Hi Fibre (Michael McCambridge)

FLYING FIFTEEN Race 2- 1. The Gruffalo (Keith Poole), 2. Hi Fibre (Michael McCambridge), 3. Ash (Joseph Coughlan)

GLEN - 1. Glendun (B.Denham et al), 2. Glencorel (B.Waldock/K.Malcolm)

RUFFIAN 23 - 1. Ruff N Ready (Ann Kirwan et al), 2. Alias (D.Meeke/M.McCarthy), 3. Ruff Nuff (D & C Mitchell)

SHIPMAN - 1. Jo Slim (J.Clarke et al), 2. Curraglas (John Masterson), 3. Whiterock (Henry Robinson)

SIGMA 33 - 1. White Mischief (Timothy Goodbody), 2. Gwili Two (D.Clarke/P.Maguire), 3. Rupert (R & P Lovegrove)

SQUIB Race 2- 1. Femme Fatale (V Delaney), 2. Nimble (Brian O'Hare), 3. Tears in Heaven (M Halpenny & G Ferguson)

SQUIB - 1. Nimble (Brian O'Hare), 2. Femme Fatale (V Delaney)

WHITE SAIL CRUISERS Echo - 1. Act Two (Michael O'Leary et al), 2. Calypso (Howard Knott), 3. The Great Escape (P & D Rigney)

WHITE SAIL CRUISERS - 1. Act Two (Michael O'Leary et al), 2. Calypso (Howard Knott), 3. Arwen (Philip O'Dwyer)

The DBSC Committee Vessel Mac Lir returns to base

The Start and finish dates of the DBSC 2012 season

First DBSC Races 2012

Tuesday: 24th April

Thursday 26th April

Saturday 21st April

Last DBSC Races 2012

Tuesday: 28th August

Thursday: 30th August

Saturday 29th Sept.