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Royal Irish's Tim Goodbody sailing the J109 White Mischief, won Thursday night's DBSC Cruisers IRC One race on Dublin Bay in a corrected time of 51 minutes and 41 seconds
The win puts the RIYC crew three points clear in Thursday's overall series, with just four races left to sail in the 2023 AIB Series.
Second last night in the eight-boat fleet and second overall is Goodbody's clubmate Colin Byrne in the XP33 Bon Exemple (0:52:53)
Third in the August 3rd race in a time of 0:53:17 was a third RIYC boat, the J109 National Champion John Maybury.
Full results in all classes below.
Jimmy Fischer's Billy Whizz leads Dublin Bay Sailing Club's (DBSC) Beneteau 211 class in the Scratch, Saturday Overall AIB Summer Series.
The Royal St. George Yacht Club entry holds a three-point lead despite a dismasting at this month's Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta.
Fischer took second place yesterday afternoon with a new mast fitted for the four-boat race in strong westerly winds, which was won by Joe Smyth's Yikes of the Royal Irish.
Overall, Smyth lies second on 19 points, with clubmate Pat Shannon on Beeswing lying third on 42 points.
As Afloat reported previously, the race was the first successful Saturday fixture in July, with an unusually high number of weather cancellations.
Results for all DBSC classes are below
Brendan Foley's 'Allig8r' from the Royal St. George Yacht Club, was the winner of Thursday night's AIB-sponsored Dublin Bay Sailing Club IRC Two race on Dublin Bay.
Foley beat clubmate and overall series leader Lindsay Casey's J97, Windjammer. Third was Dave Gould's three-quarter tonner, Scenario Encore.
As Afloat reported previously, renamed 'Allig8r', the First Class 8 is under the new ownership of a Dublin Bay syndicate of six friends Paddy Ryan, Mark Hennessy, Peter Levins, Colm O'Buachalla, Conor Twomey and Foley. Regular Afloat readers will recall her as the black-hulled 2018 Cork Week champion, skippered by Rory Fekkes from Carrickfergus Sailing Club.
Casey continues to lead Cruisers 2 IRC Thursday overall but is now on the same 16 points as Foley. The recent ISORA coastal race winner, Leslie Parnell's First 34.7 Black Velvet, lies third on 30 points.
There was a good turnout in all classes for last night's race in medium-westerly winds.
Results from all DBSC classes are below.
DBSC Saturday Racing Cancelled Due to No Wind
DBSC AIB Summer Series racing on Dubin Bay was cancelled today (July 22) due to a lack of wind.
It has been a disappointing July for Saturday Series racers so far in the capital's waters, with July 1st cancelled by a strong northwesterly; July 8 starred due to the biennial Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta; July 15 cancelled again by strong westerlies and today's racing scrubbed by no wind. Hopefully, next week's last Saturday in July (29th) will see a change of fortune.
Happily, last Thursday night provided suitable winds for a strong DBSC turnout, as Afloat reported here.
Tim and Richard Goodbody's J109 White Mischief was the winner of a fine turnout of ten boats in Dublin Bay Sailing Club's IRC One Thursday night AIB Summer Series.
Light southerly winds with occasional bursts of fresh energy from numerous rain clouds over Dublin Bay permitted a full programme of races for the club.
Finishing one minute behind White Mischief on corrected time in the strong fleet was Fintan Cairns's Mills 31 Raptor. Third was Colin Byrne's XP33 Bon Exemple.
As the top DBSC performer in IRC One at this month's Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta, Goodbody's top form continues as last night's result puts the Royal Irish Yacht Club boat top of the overall Thursday series.
Full results in all DBSC classes are below.
Dublin Bay Sailing Club's (DBSC) Saturday racing was cancelled today due to a high wind forecast.
Despite the flat sea state, westerly winds were gusting to over 35 mph at Dun Laoghaire
Olympian Annalise Murphy and her crew were the winners of a breezy Water Wag race at Dun Laoghaire Harbour this evening.
Dublin Bay Sailing Club race officer Tadhg Donnelly set a three-round windward/leeward course for the Water Wags in a westerly 14-22 knot breeze.
Due to the squally conditions, the Wags all carried one reef.
The race officer abandoned the first race after the first lap when the majority of boats rounded the leeward to starboard instead of to port.
The race was restarted 20 minutes later, and all bar 2 of the 20 boats had a clear start.
There was an individual recall, but the two OCS boats failed to return.
Wag Class Captain David Williams, sailing Dipper no. 48, capsized at the windward mark on the final round. (See photo sequence of the righting of Dipper below by Brendan Briscoe)
Results:
1. No. 41 Mollie, Annalise Murphy
2. No. 38 Swift, Guy & Jackie Kilroy
3. No. 52 Puffin, Seán & Heather Craig
Strong Northwesterlies Cancel DBSC Racing on Dublin Bay
The strong northwesterly winds that caused the cancellation of both the 2.4mR and the 29er National Championships at Dun Laoghaire this morning have also led to the scrubbing of racing in all classes of this afternoon's Dublin Bay Sailing Club programme.
National Yacht Club's J112e 'ValenTina' Debuts On Dublin Bay With DBSC Cruisers Zero Win
John Treanor's new J112e "ValenTina" from the National Yacht Club debuted on the Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) race track last night and won her Cruisers Zero IRC division.
Four boats raced in the light air Thursday night fixture – the last before next week's 375-boat Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta – with Sean Lemass's First 40 Prima Forte second and Michelle Farrell's First 40.7, Tsunami third.
The DBSC victory adds to an auspicious start to the 2023 season for Treanor and his new 36-footer, that has already seen a win in Key Yachting’s J Cup at Hamble in the UK and a second at last week's Sovereign's Cup in Kinsale. Valentia will compete in an exciting 11-boat VDLR Cruisers Zero class in next Thursday's regatta, where five of the fleet will be visitors to the Bay.
All DBSC results are below
Pearson's 'Little Tern' is Water Wag Handicap Race Winner
Tim Pearson's Little Tern was Wednesday evening's Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) Water Wag race winner at Dun Laoghaire Harbour.
The fixture was a handicap race with seven staggered starts run by Race Officer Brian Mathews.
The wind was variable, with an average of force two.
The results were
1. No. 36, Little Tern, Tim Pearson
2. No. 19, Shindilla, Judy O’Beirne
3. No. 15, Moosmie, John O’Driscoll
