Dublin Bay Sailing Club Commodore Chris Moore, reviews the 2017 sailing season on the capital's waters that will be celebrated tonight (Friday, 17th November) at the annual DBSC prizegiving at the Royal St. George Yacht Club in Dun Laoghaire. A full list of the 90 DBSC prizewinners are at the end of this story.
Ex-Hurricane Ophelia provided an appropriate footnote to the 2017 Dublin Bay sailing season. It was, in everyone’s recollection, an uncommonly windy year, with numerous races abandoned–or, for smaller boats, severely curtailed. Yet analysis of fleet turnouts, particularly of Saturdays, presents an oddly conflicting picture.
DBSC Commodore Chris Moore
For years we have been noting that on Saturdays, in contrast to Thursdays, turnouts rarely exceeded 36% of the boats entered. This year, despite what we remember as an exceptional abundance of wind and rain, the turnout remained exactly true to form – at 36%.
So, windy, yes, but on Saturdays during, the robust conditions did not deter the usual Saturday enthusiasts from venturing out as usual.
The J97 Windjammer (Lindsay J. Casey & Denis Power) are the winners of the Dun Laoghaire Harbour Trophy for Best New Boat on Dublin Bay. Photo: Afloat.ie
For Thursdays, on the other hand, the turnout figure, which in 2016 was 54% of the fleet, this year fell to 48%. Four Thursday days racing had to be abandoned, quite unlike 2016 when there were none at all. Average turnout of boats on Thursdays in 2017 was 110, (though there were days when it exceeded 130 and sometimes reached 140).
In 2016, by contrast, average turnouts on Thursday evenings was 125. Quite a notable fall-off in 2017, we must agree.
To be sure, Saturdays in the early part of the 2017 season were exceptionally cold and blustery. To no one’s regret, racing for the first two Saturdays had to be cancelled. And the first coastal race on the 27th May took place in wet, miserable conditions, only two boats reaching the finishing line.
A large fleet of Sigma 33s – including DBSC's own fleet – competed in July's Dun Laoghaire Regatta Photo: Afloat.ie
Thereafter, the weather settled down a bit, particularly after the second coastal race on the 17th June which took place in a minor heat wave. Many boats, in fact, struggled to get beyond Killiney Bay, like Ruffians, Shipmans and Cruisers 5. A few weeks later, the Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta, with sunshine and benign winds, was a most agreeable occasion. As indeed was our own end of Season race day - a kind of mini-regatta, if you like, with beautiful weather and some new courses which seem to have pleased nearly everyone.
Courses
Mention of the end of season race on the 30th September reminds me that for some time we have been trying to arrest the decline in Saturday turnouts by introducing more interesting and more varied courses. First, we have had the coastal races which now include, for some classes, an annual trip down southwards to the Greystones regatta.
Then, this year, on the final day of racing, we had keelboats boats racing on windward-leeward courses, finishing the first race on one starboard side of the committee boat while boats were starting the second race on its port-hand side. It made conditions aboard the committee boat very interesting, to say the least, but sailors seem to have loved it. Particularly as it cut out the interminable waiting and hanging about which up to this seems inevitable with back-to-back racing.
The SB20 Venues World (Ger Dempsey) won the Lunasa Trophy for Saturday Series 2 Photo: Afloat.ie
There’s undoubtedly an appetite for this particular format, but, unfortunately, there’s a problem. It’s extraordinarily demanding of resources. Not only does it require two exceptionally good race officers on the two committee boat (or else one very, very experienced totally alert race officer with the proverbial eyes in the back of his/her head) but also a doubling up of the time-keeping and recording teams.
Reflecting on it, what we might consider next year is to sign-off each of the two Saturday series with similar such courses. As we will be having a Bloomsday regatta on the 16th June, we could use this format on that occasion and finish the first series at the same time.
Bluefin II (Michael & Bernie Bryson) was the winner of the Beneteau 31.7's Long John Silver Cup for Saturday Overall (Echo) DBSC racing Photo: Afloat.ie
Entries and Subscriptions
Subscriptions and boat entries held up well and indeed income was about 1% above what we budgeted for. For the record, boat entries came to 317 and membership subscriptions to 1217.
Within those generally satisfactory boat entry figures, there are some less positive trends. Whereas cruiser-racers continue to thrive in Dublin Bay the decline in one-designs continues. In 2016, there were 8 Dragons racing under the DBSC burgee. This year there were only 5. Squibs in 2016 numbered 14. This year they had fallen to 11, with turnouts averaging just three boats.
The DBSC Flying Fifteen fleet make the headlines in the Irish Times. The buoyant fleet is bucking the trend in one design numbers on the bay. The 25–boat class, largely based at the NYC, will stage the FF world championships in Dun Laoghaire in 2019
Volunteers
In 1963, Howard Knee a well-known artist of the day, painted a picture showing a DBSC start at the inside of the West Pier. The total race management effort at the time consisted of the race officer, an assistant, a megaphone and an open shed to protect them from the elements. We’ve moved forward a lot since then and on some Saturdays nowadays DBSC fleets sail in four separate race areas, served by two state–of–the art committee boats, the West Pier Starters Hut and- servicing the dinghies in the Harbour – Declan Traynor’s large rib.
All this requires the services of a considerable number of volunteers (now numbering close to forty, by a recent count). Managing even the rota for this group requires considerable personal effort on the part of the team coordinators, to whom we must be infinitely grateful, Ida Kiernan, Rosemary Roy and Barbara Conway - who is now, regretfully, leaving us to go back to racing.
Members murmuring about the accuracy of their results should be aware that life on board a committee vessel at anchor in seaway is not invariably the comfortable berth they might imagine. One Saturday last season, visiting the Freebird on a day with a very lumpy sea, someone noticed that three of the women members of the team were undoubtedly seasick. Yet they were able to pick out sail numbers from what seemed to be a flurry of white sail storming across the finishing line.
That said, we must recognise that there can be new or occasional members the team sometimes have an imperfect grasp of what is going on. Indeed, there is always the need for all us to update and share our knowledge of the mechanics of running club racing. It’s subject we intend to give some attention to during the winter with some training and briefing sessions.
We should not forget, either, the young– and, sometimes, not so young –people who man the Club’s RIB patrol boats. We depend a lot on them to lay accurately starting and finishing lines. Not to mention laying leeward gates and putting a windward mark exactly where it should be and not letting it float away with the tide. In this area, too, we will consider some upskilling, either in-house or by some specialist agency.
Hut
The DBSC starter’s Hut has been going onto its summer location on the seaward side of the West Pier since 1968.
In that year, according to the Club’s minutes, the first courses from this particular location were designed by Tim Goodbody. It’s clearly a life-time vocation, designing courses, for it was Tim, nearly half a century later, who this summer, produced a set of new and interesting designs for our coastal races. Our thanks once again to Tim for all the time and effort he continues to put into this very essential exercise.
The Hut has always been important asset for the Club even though its centrality in the scheme of things has declined a bit with the acquisition of committee boats. There is no intention to abandon it. It’s important for Tuesday racing and even though we could run Saturday races without it as we have done on Thursdays, it’s still a very useful, comfortable, not very expensive and totally dependable place to run races to run races from. Which, hand on heart, we can’t always say about committee vessels.
We’re grateful to Brendan Finucane for looking after it this year. It’s always a stressful exercise overseeing putting the Hut on station on the West Pier. Likewise, the return to the MGM yard on the crane/low-loader, along the narrow causeway from the Pier to the bridge, ever so carefully avoiding getting entangled in fences and road signs along the way. We never cease to marvel at the skill of the various drivers who so successfully carry it all off so professionally over the years.
DBSC Pier mark at the East Pier stayed on station but others disappeared Photo: Afloat.ie
Marks
Not unexpectedly, the bad weather seems to have taken its toll on the Club’s buoyage. Zebra Mark went adrift and ended up in Douglas in the Isle of Man. New Ross simply disappeared and has not been seen since. Marks are subjected to all sorts of conditions and many of them are beyond useful life. We have been considering a budget to fund a replacement programme. Expensive but necessary. My thanks to Philip Ferguson for his work on this activity.
DBSC committee boat Freebird at work laying courses in breezy conditions at this year's Turkey Shoot. Photo: Afloat.ie
Committee Boats
Always a significant item in the Club finances, the committee boats require unceasing and meticulous attention. Maclir is in constant use since we acquired her seventeen years ago and some time in the not too distant future we’ll have to see about replacing her. Freebird, which first came into full service in 2013, still requires some looking after. This autumn, for instance, anodes to protect the very valuable jet drives cost €1,500. Expensive, yes but not as expensive as replacing the jet drives.
I should here express our thanks to the drivers of the committee boats. (Skippers, I think, would be more appropriate designation). Not only do they drive the craft, they’re also part of the team - looking after the race sound signalling, for instance. Brendan Dalton take a particular interest in the maintenance of the Freebird, and spends long hours helping her get ready for service. My special thanks to them for all this.
Appreciation
Looking back on the Club’s activities for this review, I cannot but think that in many ways DBSC is something very similar to what is now called a medium-sized enterprise. There is the same concerns about raising income, providing services, paying bills regularly, maintenance programmes, budgets, administration and enlisting the right people to do the work
With the addition, of course, that the workers are all volunteers, which are far, far too many to list here. But I must single out our hard-working flag-officers and committee. Not forgetting Not our hard-working Hon. Secretary, Donal O’Sullivan and our Hon.Protest Secretary, Ray Duggan who looks after protests with his usual tact and efficiency.
Ray will be leaving us at the end of next season when the then-incoming committee will be faced with the unenviable task of finding a worthy successor.
I thank also our sponsors and supporters – firstly our title sponsor Sherry Fitzgerald and also Viking Marine, MGM Boats, SagePay and Killen Marine. A special word of thanks to Rathfarnham Ford who have been generously supporting our winter racing for some years now.
Tim Goodbody's J109 White Mischief leads at the DBSC Turkey Shoot gybe mark. White Mischief was the winner of Cruisers One Saturday IRC overall racing; Photo: Afloat.ie
Which reminds me I must not forget either former commodore Fintan Cairns, who continues to run the Turkey Shoot and Spring Chicken series so successfully. This winter racing is great fun, as is the apres-sail jollifications, over which Fintan and Brian Mathews preside with much wit and aplomb.
Brian, who is our Technical Director - and also a very, very effective race officer - will be absent from Dublin Bay for about a year, having joined another former DBSC member, Eamonn Crosbie, in a world cruise aboard the latter’s boat, Pamela, a Discovery 55. We wish them both fair winds and happy voyaging.
DBSC Technical Director Brian Mathews is sailing round–the–world with Dun Laoghaire sailor Eamon Crosbie in Pamela, a Discovery 55 Photo: Afloat.ie
I must thank, too, the two Leonard brothers, Kevin and Ralph, who, after fifteen years on the job, are retiring at the end of this year. It’s not always sufficiently recognised, but producing regular results for the web within half an hour of receiving the record sheets of what is the equivalent of a full-scale regatta , is an achievement not easily matched elsewhere in the sailing world.
In recent years, in response to class requests, we have been adding complication after complication into the Club’s results system. It dates from 1983 when our then-Commodore, Michael O’Rahilly, talked to Colin McMullen about computerising the task. DBSC were very much ahead of the curve at the time and over a hundred clubs world-wide used it in its heyday. But it’s dated, the complications were slowing it down. The web adjunct added to it about 2006 was only a compromise – providing snapshots, so to speak, of print files produced by the underlying computing system.
As members are now doubt aware, Colin McMullen has been working on a full upgrade, bringing it into line with the new server-based technology. We all look forward keenly to seeing it on stream next season.
Outside DBSC I must remember at this time the management and staffs of the waterfront clubs who support DBSC members in so many ways. Also the boards of Dun Laoghaire Harbour and Dublin Port as well as the Harbour Masters, Captains Simon Coate and Michael McKenna. Not forgetting the national authority which regulates our sport, the Irish Sailing Association, which in recent times became Irish Sailing. To all our grateful thanks.
DBSC 2017 Prizewinners
| Cruisers 0 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rockabill VI | Paul | O'Higgins | glasses | Saturdays Echo Series 1 |
| WOW | George | Sisk Esq | Knox-Gore Cup (2) | Saturday IRC overall |
| glasses | Thursday Series 1 Echo | |||
| glasses | Thursday ECHO Series 2 | |||
| Knox-Gore Bowl (1) | Thursday ECHO Overall | |||
| glasses | Thursday IRC Series 1 | |||
| glasses | Thursday IRC Series 2 | |||
| Martin Cup (3) | Thursday IRC overall | |||
| glasses | Saturday IRC Series 1 | |||
| glasses | Saturday ECHO Series 2 | |||
| glasses | Saturday IRC Series 2 | |||
| John Rennie Trophy | Coastal Races | |||
| Centenary Trophy (4) | Saturday Echo overall | |||
| Cruisers 1 | ||||
| Bon Exemple | Colin | Byrne | West Pier Officers cup (7) | Thursday IRC overall |
| Chimaera | Andrew & Deidi | Craig | glasses | Thursday Echo Series 1 |
| Dear Prudence | Pierce | Tynan & others | Osterberg Cup (5) | Saturday Echo overall |
| Gringo | Tony | Fox | Tiamat Trophy (6) | Thursday ECHO Overall |
| Gringo | Tony | Fox | glasses | Thursday Series 1 IRC |
| Jalapeno | Paul | Barrington Esq | glasses | Saturdays Echo Series 1 |
| Something Else | John & Brian | Hall | glasses | Thursday ECHO Series 2 |
| glasses | Saturday Echo Series 2 | |||
| White Mischief | Timothy & Richard | Goodbody Esq | Weir Cup (8) | Saturday IRC overall |
| glasses | Thursday IRC Series 2 | |||
| glasses | Saturdays IRC Series 1 | |||
| glasses | Saturdays IRC Series 2 | |||
| Cr.1 Royal Alfred Cup | Coastal Races | |||
| Cruisers 2 | Cruisers 2 | |||
| Enchantress | K Bonner, L Nicholl | & M Larkin | Silver Foam Trophy (77) | Most improved boat |
| Helter Skelter | Adrienne & Averil | Jermyn | glasses | Saturdays Echo Series 1 |
| Leeuwin | Henry Leonard & | Bobbie Kerr | glasses | Thursday Series 1 Echo |
| glasses | Thursday IRC Series 1 | |||
| Peridot | J.McCann. P.Cadden. Y.Charrier | & H.O'Donnell | Silver Salver (12) | Saturday IRC overall |
| glasses | Saturday IRC Series 1 | |||
| glasses | Thursday IRC Series 2 | |||
| Cr.2 Royal Alfred Cup | Coastal Races | |||
| Rupert | Richard & Philip | Lovegrove Esq | Lady Shamrock Trophy (13) | Thursday IRC overall |
| Fireseal Sigma 33 Trophy (24) | Thursdays overall | |||
| Rupert Bowl (26) | 1st Saturday Series-Trophy | |||
| Bective Lights Crystal Trophy (27) | Saturdays overall | |||
| J.B. Stephens Trophy (25) | Thursday Saturday Combined | |||
| Windjammer | Lindsay J. Casey & | Denis Power | T.P. Early Cup (11) | Saturday Echo overall |
| glasses | Saturdays Echo Series 2 | |||
| Centenary Cup (10) | Thursday ECHO overall | |||
| glasses | Thursday ECHO Series 2 | |||
| glasses | Saturday IRC Series 2 | |||
| Briscoe Trophy (9) | Tuesday Echo overall | |||
| Cruisers 3 | ||||
| Cartoon | Sybil McCormack & | Ken Lawless | Mercia Cup (16) | Saturday Echo overall |
| glasses | Saturday Series 2 IRC | |||
| Mini- Sam Maguire Cup | Coastal Races | |||
| glasses | Saturday ECHO Series 2 | |||
| Jack Kennedy Memorial Cup (15) | Saturday IRC overall | |||
| Dubious | Peter | Richardson | glasses | Saturdays Echo Series 1 |
| Marlena | Grzegorz | Kalinecki | Annette Cup (90) | Tuesday overall |
| Running Wild | Brendan | Foley Esq | Viking clock Trophy | Thursday Echo overall |
| glasses | Thursday IRC Series 2 | |||
| glasses | Thursday ECHO Series 2 | |||
| glasses | Thursday Echo Series 1 | |||
| Smalldridge Cup | Thursday IRC overall (3a) | |||
| glasses | Thursday IRC Series 1 | |||
| Cruisers 3(b) | ||||
| Asterix | Frazer Meredith & | John Counihan | Sanderling Trophy (14) | Thursday IRC overall (3b) |
| glasses | Thursday IRC Series 1 | |||
| glasses | Saturday IRC Series 1 | |||
| Cacciatore | Mairead &Ann | Ni Cheallachain | glasses | Thursday IRC Series 2 |
| Pamafe | Gerald | Costello Esq | glasses | Thursday ECHO Series 2 |
| Saki | Paget Mc Cormack | Ml. & Ben Ryan | Whimbrel Rose Bowl (19) | Thursday Echo overall |
| glasses | Thursday ECHO Series 1 | |||
| B21s | ||||
| Billy Whizz | Pat | Shannon | Old Baily Bowl | Coastal Races |
| glasses | Thursday Scratch Series 2 | |||
| Ventuno | Rowan | Fogarty Esq | Facet Jewellers Cup (95) | Thursday Scratch Overall |
| glasses | Thursday Scratch Series 1 | |||
| glasses | Saturday Scratch Series 1 | |||
| glasses | Saturday Scratch Series 2 | |||
| Beneteau 21 Cup (94) | Saturday Scratch Overall | |||
| Cruisers 5 (a) | ||||
| Persistence | Chas. Broadhead | Ian Stuart & Jerry Collins | Gerry Henry Salver (20) | Thursday Echo overall |
| glasses | Thursday Echo Series 1 | |||
| glasses | Saturdays IRC series 1 | |||
| glasses | Saturday IRC Series 2 | |||
| White Sail Class Trophy (21) | Saturday IRC overall | |||
| White Lotus | Paul | Tully Esq | Burford Trophy (23) | Thursday IRC overall |
| glasses | Thursday IRCSeries 1 | |||
| glasses | Thursday Series 2 Echo | |||
| glasses | Thursday Series 2 IRC | |||
| Calypso | Howard | Knott | Anna Livia Trophy (22) | Saturday Echo overall |
| glasses | Saturdays Echo Series 2 | |||
| Cevantes | Paul | Conway | Royal Alfred Howth Trophy | Coastal Races |
| glasses | Thursday IRCSeries 1 | |||
| Sweet Martini | A.Bruce | Carswsell Esq | glasses | Thursday Echo Series 1 |
| The Great Escape | Patrick & Denise | Rigney | Trevor Wood Trophy (92) | Thursday Echo overall |
| glasses | Saturdays Echo Series 1 | |||
| glasses | Thursday Series 2 Echo | |||
| Vespucci | Sean & Kristina | O'Regan | Galileo Cup (93) | Thursday IRC overall |
| glasses | Thursday Series 2 IRC | |||
| 31.7s | ||||
| Bluefin II | Michael & Bernie | Bryson | Long John Silver Cup (29) | Saturday Overall- Echo |
| glasses | Saturday Series 1 Echo | |||
| glasses | Saturdays Series 2 Echo | |||
| Fiddly Bits | P.J.Timmons,W.Quigley | G.Murray, D.Breen | glasses | Thursday Series 2 (Echo) |
| Levana | Jean | Mitton | glasses | Thursday Series 1 (Scratch) |
| Levante | Michael Leahy & | John Power | Horrigan Cup (28) | Thursday Overall -Echo |
| glasses | Thursday Series 1 (Echo) | |||
| glasses | Thursday Series 2 (Scratch) | |||
| glasses | Saturday Series 2 One-Design | |||
| Royal Alfred 31.7 Cup | Coastal Races | |||
| Arandora Trophy (30) | Saturday Overall-One Design | |||
| Prospect | Chris. | Johnston | Feanor Trophy (31) | Thursday overall One-Design |
| glasses | Saturday Series 1 One-Design | |||
| Dragons | ||||
| Dcision | Joey Mason & | Greg Purcell | Old Time Cup (87) | Combined Saturday & Thursday |
| glasses | Thursday Series 1 | |||
| Phantom | Peter Bowring & | David Williams | Oxford & Cambridge Cup (33) | Thursday overall |
| glasses | Thursday Series 2 | |||
| glasses | Saturdays Series 1 | |||
| glasses | Saturdays Series 2 | |||
| RIYC Cup (32) | Saturdays Overall | |||
| Zinzan | Tim Carpenter, Patricia | McGettrick & Adrian Masterson | Torry Cup (88) | Special conditions |
| Glens | ||||
| Glendun | Brian Denham | D,Houlton, Alison OBrien | Pterodactyl Cup (34) | Thursday overall |
| glasses | Thursday Series 2 | |||
| Glendun | Alison | OBrien | Pair of Silver Vases (39) | Ladies Race |
| Glendun | Brian Denham | D.Houlton, Alison OBrien | Hamilton Reid (38) | Dalkey Island Race |
| Glendun | Stephen | Flood | Glen Challenge Trophy (35) | Crews races |
| Glenluce | Richard & Donal | O'Connor Esq | Royal Alfred Glen Trophy | Coastal Races |
| glasses | Saturday Series 1 | |||
| glasses | Saturday Series 2 | |||
| Harry Maguire Memorial Cup (36) | Saturday overall | |||
| The McMullen Cup (37) | Sts & Thurs combined + regatta | |||
| Commodore O'Meara Trophy | Olympic races | |||
| Pterodactyll | Roderick & David | McCaffrey Esq | glasses | Thursday Series 1 |
| Ruffians | ||||
| Alias | David Meeke & | Martin McCarthy | Dr. O'Leary Memorial Cup | Coastal races |
| John Donnelly Perpetual Cup (41) | Best Tuesday Boat | |||
| Bandit | Ann Kirwan, Brian Cullen | & Ciara Brown | Huet Trophy (43) | Thursday overall |
| glasses | Saturday Series 1 | |||
| British Airways Trophy (44) | Saturday Overall | |||
| J.Lamont Brown Trophy (42) | Sat & Thurs overall | |||
| Ruffles | Michael | Cutliffe Esq | glasses | Saturday Series 2 |
| Shannagh | Stephen Gill & | Padraig Mac Diarmada | glasses | Thursday Series 2 |
| glasses | Thursday Series 1 | |||
| Shipmans | ||||
| Barossa | Brian Geraghty, Stuart Trotter | & Neill McSherry | The Malindi Cup (46) | Saturdays overall |
| glasses | Saturday Series 2 | |||
| Curraglas | John P. & Neill | Masterson Esq | Royal Alfred Shipman Bowl | Coastal Races |
| JOSlim | John D.Clarke & | B.J. Maher | The Shipman Perpetual Trophy (47) | Special Conds.(sats not major trophy |
| glasses | Thursday Series 1 | |||
| glasses | Saturday Series 1 | |||
| Viking | Brian Glynn, \Monica McWeeney | Fergus Mason | The Midweek Trophy (45) | Thursdays overall |
| glasses | Thursday Series 2 | |||
| SB20 | ||||
| Bad-Kilcullen | Jerry | Dowling | glasses | Thursday Series 2 |
| Bango | James | Gorman | Bealtaine Trophy (49) | Special Conditions |
| glasses | Saturday Series 1 | |||
| Sacre Bleu | Colin Galavan | Richard Hayes & | Equinox Trophy (50) | Special Conditions- 3rd series) |
| Sin Bin | Michael | O'Connor | Saturday SB3 Cup (51) | Saturday overall |
| glasses | Thursday Series 1 | |||
| Crichton Trophy (52) | Thursday overall | |||
| Sin Bin | Michael | O'Connor | glasses | Saturday Series 3 |
| Venuesworld.com | Ger | Dempsey | Lunasa Trophy (48) | Special Conditions (Saturday Series 2 etc) |
| glasses | Saturday Series 2 | |||
| Mixed Sportsboats | ||||
| Jambiya | Vincent | Lattimore | glasses | Saturday Series 1 |
| Sporstboat Saturday Cup | Saturday overall | |||
| glasses | Saturday Series 2 | |||
| Jester | Declan | Curtin | glasses | Thursday Series 2 |
| Sporstboat Thursday Cup | Thursday overall | |||
| Jester | Declan | Curtin | glasses | Thursday Series 1 |
| Water Wags | ||||
| Mariposa | Cathy | MacAleavey | G.Pugin Melden Trophy (53) | Wags Series 2 |
| Mariposa | Cathy | MacAleavey | glasses | Wednesday Series 2 |
| Moosmie | McFarlane Esq | RIYC | Goldsmith Cup (54) | Wednesday Overall |
| Moosmie | David | McFarlane Esq | Blue Bird Trophy (55) | Wags Series 1 |
| Moosmie | David | McFarlane Esq | glasses | Wedneday Series 1 |
| Flying 15s | ||||
| As Good as it Gets | Ben | Mulligan Esq | Brian S.Ryan Trophy (57) | Saturday overall |
| Deranged | Neil | Colin | Flying Fifteen Gun (56) | Thursday overall |
| Deranged | Neil | Colin | Fifty Something Cup | 1st Thursday Series |
| Deranged | Neil | Colin | glasses | Thursday Series 2 |
| Deranged | Neil | Colin | glasses | Thursday Series 1 |
| Elena | Ross | Doyle | Blake Cup (89) | Special Conditions |
| Ignis Caput | David | Mulvin | glasses | Saturday Series 2 |
| The Gruffolo | Keith | Poole | glasses | Saturday Series 1 |
| Mermaids | ||||
| Aideen | Brendan Martin & | Dan Brennan | Stella Cup (60) | Thursdays: special conditions |
| Aideen | Brendan Martin & | Dan Brennan | J.B.Kearney Shield (61) | Saturday-special conditions |
| Jill | Paul Smith & | Pat Mangan | Iolar Cup (59) | Saturday overall |
| Jill | Paul Smith & | Pat Mangan | glasses | Saturday Series 1 |
| Jill | Paul Smith & | Pat Mangan | glasses | Tuesday Series 1 |
| Jill | Paul Smith & | Pat Mangan | glasses | Tuesday Series 3 |
| Jill | Paul Smith & | Pat Mangan | glasses | Tuesday Series 2 |
| Jill | Paul Smith & | Pat Mangan | glasses | Saturday Series 2 |
| Jill | Paul Smith & | Pat Mangan | Amy Cup (58) | Tuesday Overall |
| Squibs | ||||
| Little Demon | Sheila | Power | glasses | Thursday Series 1 |
| Perfection | Jill | Fleming | glasses | Saturday Series 1 |
| Periguin | Noel | Colclough | Shannon Cup (62) | Saturday Overall |
| Why Not | Derek & Jean | Jago | Minx Trophy (63) | Thursday Overall |
| Why Not | Derek & Jean | Jago | glasses | Saturday Series 2 |
| Why Not | Derek & Jean | Jago | glasses |
Thursday Series 2
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Fireball Incubus |
Cariosa Power & | Marie Barry | The Saturday Cup | Saturday Overall |
| Incubus | Cariosa Power & | Marie Barry | glasses | Saturdays Series 2 |
| No. 15061 | Stephen | Oram Esq | Nuits St.George Trophy (64) | Tuesday overall |
| No. 15061 | Stephen Oram & | Noel Butler | glasses | Tuesday Series 1 |
| No. 15061 | Stephen | Oram Esq | glasses | Tuesday Series 2 |
| No.15061 | Stephen | Oram Esq | glasses | Tuesday Series 3 |
| IDRA14s | ||||
| Dart | Pierre | Long | Melampus Cup (78) | Special conditions |
| Doody | Jennifer Byrne & | John Fitzgerald | Half-Way Trophy (80) | Special Conditions |
| Dunmoanin' | Frank | Hamilton Esq | Bay Cup (67) | Tuesday overall |
| Dunmoanin | Frank | Hamilton Esq | glasses | Saturday Series 3 |
| Dunmoanin' | Frank | Hamilton Esq | The Kennedy Cup (66) | Saturday Overall |
| Dunmoanin' | Frank | Hamilton Esq | glasses | Tuesday Series 3 |
| Dunmoanin' | Frank | Hamilton Esq | glasses | Tuesday Series 2 |
| Dunmoanin' | Frank | Hamilton Esq | glasses | Saturday Series 2 |
| Dunmoanin' | Frank | Hamilton Esq | glasses | Saturday Series 1 Series 1 |
| Slipstream | Julie | Ascoop | glasses | Tuesday Series 1 |
| Spray | Shane | McNamara | Crews Challenge Cup (79) | Special Conditions |
| Portsmouth YS | ||||
| No.59 | Tom | Murphy | The Windmill Cup (68) | Tuesday overall |
| No. 59 | Tom | Murphy | glasses | Tuesday Series 3 |
| No.6 | Richard | Tate | Early Bird Trophy | 1st series Tues, & Sat.combined |
| No. 6 | Richard | Tate | glasses | Saturday Series 3 |
| No.6 | Richard | Tate | glasses | Tuesday Series 2 |
| No.6 | Richard | Tate | glasses | Saturday Series 1 |
| Sail No. 2 | Des | Fortune Esq | glasses | Tuesday Series 1 |
| 816 | Patrick | McGoldrick | glasses | Saturday Series 2 |
| Lasers | ||||
| No. 155068 | Ross | O'Leary | glasses | Tuesday Series 2 |
| No.173111 | Darach | Dinneen | The Lanaverre Trophy | Tuesday overall |
| No.173111 | Darach | Dinneen | glasses | Tuesday Series 3 |
| No.173133 | D. | Maloney | Sailcraft Tray (69) | Tuesday overall-2nd place |
| No.173133 | D. | Maloney | glasses | Tuesday Series 1 |
| Juniors | ||||
| No. 190754 | Oisin | Cullen | Jimmy Mooney Goblet (86) | Laser Radial September Series |
| No 47493 | Hugh | O'Connor | Lawson Cup (84) | Topper September Series |
| No. 1475 | Conor | Gorman | Seapoint Cup (82) | Optimist September Series |
| No. 1649 | Tim Norwood & | Finn Cleary | Mitchell Cup (83) | RS Fever September Series |
| No. 190754 | Kate | Fahy | Pioneer Trophy (85) | Laser September Series |
| No. 601 | Patrick | Hassett | PY Junior Trophy | PY September Series |
| Premium prizes | ||||
| As Good As It Gets | Ben | Mulligan | Newsom Cup (74) | Best one -design boat |
| Declan Traynor | Declan | Traynor | Viking Trophy (76) | Notable contribution to sailing |
| Dunmoanin' | Frank | Hamilton | Dr Alf Delaney Cup (73) | Best Boat on dinghy course |
| Ruffians | Michael | Cutliffe Esq | Brendan Ebrill Memorial Cup (81) | Special conditions |
| White Mischief | Timothy & | Richard Goodbody | Waterhouse Shield (75) | Best Cruiser on handicap |
| Windjammer | Lindsay J. Casey & | Denis Power | Dun Laoghaire Harbour Trophy (72) | Best New Boat |
