Windless Dublin Bay Evening Closes Out DBSC Tuesday Nights

28th August 2013

#fireball – Though I was unable to sail last night due to a working commitment, on returning to Dun Laoghaire at around 19:30, it was obvious that the DBSC Tuesday Night Series had concluded with a no-show as there was hardly a breath on Dublin Bay and even at 19:30 there was no sign of racing activity writes Cormac Bradley.

A quick phone call to my helm confirmed what already obvious, the last scheduled Tuesday night race of the 2013 season had not taken place, the combination of very light wind and an ebbing tide had sealed its fate.

Thus the Series 3 Fireball results are as follows;

DBSC Series 3 - Overall
1	Noel Butler & Stephen Oram	15061	DMYC	4pts
2	Frank Miller & Grattan Donnelly	14713	DMYC	8pts
2	Louis Smyth & Cormac Bradley	15007	Coal Harb.	8pts
4	Louise McKenna & Hermine O’Keeffe	14691	RStGYC	12pts
5	Jonathan Nicholson & Vivian Besslar	14781	RStGYC	14pts

By my reckoning this completes the full suite of DBSC Tuesday Night Series wins for Messrs Butler & Oram. They have come unstuck in one or two races, but in overall terms they have never really been threatened. Race wins have gone to a number of other combinations, Louise McKenna & Francis Rowan, Neil Colin & Margaret Casey (14775) and Frank Miller & Grattan Donnelly, but none of us have sailed consistently well enough to knock the Tuesday night “champs” off their perch.

For the Irish Fireball fleet, the racing emphasis will now be on the Saturday afternoons for those who have entered DBSC, but they will soon come to an end. On the regatta scene, the Munsters will be hosted by Lough Ree Yacht Club in Athlone on the last weekend of September, 28^th/29^th, immediately after the return of the boats from Slovenia. In mid-October we will race our re-scheduled Leinsters, postponed from last weekend. This event will be hosted by Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club and in common with recent practice will see the AGM of the Class being held on the Saturday night.

The Irish boats contesting the Fireball Europeans and Worlds in Slovenia are due to be packed up this coming Saturday (31^st) in Dun Laoghaire for road transport to the southern European venue the following week.

Race Results

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