In a warm-up for this weekend's J109 National Championships on the same Dublin Bay race track, Timothy Goodbody's J109 White Mischief, from the Royal Irish Yacht Club, was the DBSC Thursday night IRC One winner on a corrected IRC time of 1 hour, nine minutes and 12 seconds from clubmate Barry Cunningham's sistership Blast on Chimaera (1:11:16 corr). Colin Byrne's XP33 Bon Exemple, also of the RIYC, was third (1:11:59 corr) in the nine-boat fleet, including six J109s.
The J109 Nationals are being raced as part of the inaugural Key Yachting J Cup Ireland at the Royal Irish Yacht Club, as Afloat reports here.
Meanwhile, in the DBSC One Design divisions, Chris Johnston's Prospect was the winner in a seven-boat Beneteau 31.7 turnout from Eoin O’Driscoll's Kernach. Third was John Power's Levante. Overall, Johnston leads the AIB DBSC Thursday Summer Series by 17 points from Michael Blaney's After You.
Full results in all DBSC classes are below