25 Water Wags turned out for the first of two AIB DBSC races on Wednesday evening, July 24th, at Dun Laoghaire Harbour.
Race Officer Tadgh Donnelly set a two round windward leeward course with a final third beat to the finish at the weather mark in a SSW 12-knot breeze with gusts of up to 20 knots.
Sean and Heather Craig sailing Puffin led at the first weather mark closely followed by Guy and Jackie Kilroy sailing Swift. Two boats retired with gear failure - Pansy (Vincent Delany and Emma Webb), and Penelope (Fergus Cullen and Alice Walsh).
Top 3 finishers in race 1:
- No. 52 Puffin, Seán & Heather Craig
- No. 38 Swift, Guy & Jackie Kilroy
- No. 40 Swallow, Justin Geoghegan & Harry Croxon
Race Officer Donnelly repositioned the committee boat to windward of the leeward gates and got the second race of two rounds underway with 21 starters. No. 19 Shindilla, Judy and Frank O‘Beirne were OCS and failed to return.
Another very close race ensued between Guy and Jackie Kilroy on Swift and Sean and Heather on Pufffin. Swift rounded the weather mark just ahead on both the first and second round, with Mollie sailed by Annalise Murphy and Emily Kavanagh rounding third both times.
See the finish of the top three boats in this vid below by Brendan Briscoe.
Top 3 finishers in race 2 were:
- No. 41 Mollie, Annalise Murphy & Emily Kavanagh
- No. 38 Swift, Guy & Jackie Kilroy
- No. 52 Puffin, Seán & Heather Craig
Annalise Murphy and Emily Kavanagh used the American GPS Strava app to track Mollie's winning course (above) in Wednesday’s second Water Wag race giving an interesting perspective of the two rounds sailed
