Light westerlies brought the curtain down on Thursday night's 140th Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) AIB Saturday Series on August 29th, but not before the club celebrated the arrival of its new committee boat in advance of the final races.
The final race served as a warm-up before Friday's Unio ICRA National Championships on the bay, and there were some notable strong turnouts, not least in the hyper-competitive IRC One class, which featured ten starters.
In Class Zero IRC racing, Sean Lemass's First 40 Prima Forte (1:21:51 corrected) had a 30-second margin from Chris Power Smith's J122 Aurelia from the Royal St. George Yacht Club with Tim Kane's Extreme 37 Wow in a four-boat turnout.
In a clearout of the IRC One podium by the J109s, Barry Cunningham's J109 Chimaera (0:58:11) won by five seconds from Richard and Timothy Goodbody's White Mischief (0:58:16) with John Maybury's Joker II third (0:58:38).
In an eight-boat IRC, Two turnouts, Brendan Foley's First 8, Allig8R (0:37:18), won by under a minute from Lindsay Casey's J97 Windjammer (0:38:06) with Dick Lovegrove's Sigma 33 Rupert from the Royal St. George third (0:38:29).
As the Beneteau 31.7s prepare to make their ICRA championships debut on Friday, defending champion Chris Johnston set the mood with a DBSC race win in Prospect. Michael & Bernie Bryson's Bluefin Two was second, and Brian Geraghty's Camira was third in a four-boat turnout.
Results below.
