Although northeasterly winds gusting to 25 knots and big seas on Dublin Bay led to the cancellation of some DBSC Saturday Series racing, the club's blue fleet raced.

Racing was held for 31.7s, Cruisers Two and Cruisers Three.

National Champion Chris Johnston continues his domination of the 31.7s with another win today in a reduced fleet of three boats. 

Two DBSC Saturday races are left in the 2023 calendar.

With Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) Saturday racing starred in IRC Zero and One due to the annual ICRA cruiser-racer National Championships in Howth, a five-boat IRC Two division was won by Lindsay Casey's J97 Windjammer and Ed Melvin's Ceol na Mara was the winner of IRC Three.

A south-easterly sea breeze of less than 10 knots prevailed for the fourth last Saturday race of the AIB Summer Series.

In the one design fleets, a 15-boat turnout of Flying Fifteens was won by Shane McCarthy in Mr Potato Head of the National Yacht Club. Recently crowned 31.7 national champions, Chris Johnston sailing Prospect of the National Yacht Club, won again in a five-boat turnout. The Royal Irish's Joe Smyth topped a seven-boat Beneteau 211 fleet.

Full results in all classes are below.

It's not often Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) racers don shorts and T-shirts for AIB Saturday Series racing – and rarer still in September – but today's 2nd September fixture presented such an opportunity with a warm sea breeze of up to ten knots on Dublin Bay.

There was an individual recall in the Cruisers One start, with four boats on course side (OCS), but all four (Something Else, Powder Monkey, Ruth and Raptor) returned with the Mills 31 Raptor skippered by Fintan Cairns managing to take second on IRC rating in the ten boat race despite the start line blip.

The Race Officer was Con Murphy.

Timothy Goodbody's J109 White Mischief of the Royal Irish was the race winner in a corrected time of 1 hour, 30 minutes and 11 seconds. Clubmate Raptor finished in 1:31:14, corrected with another RIYC entry, Colin Byrne's XP33 Bon Exemple, third in a corrected time of  1:31:24.

With four Saturday races left to sail in the 2023 Series, White Mischief leads on 14 points from Bon Exemple on 16, with John Hall's J109 Something Else from the National Yacht Club lying third on 32.5.

Full DBSC results in all classes below.

John Power's Beneteau 31.7 Levante from the National Yacht Club was the winner of DBSC's final Thursday night AIB Summer Series 2023 race on Dublin Bay on August 31st. 

The overall series leader, Chris Johnston's Prospect, was second in an eight-boat fleet, with a third NYC boat, Michael Bryson's Bluefin Two, third. 

Colin Byrne's XP33 Bon Exemple won Thursday's race 18 in the IRC One division in a corrected time of 44 minutes and 40 seconds from John Maybury's Joker 2 (0:45:13 corrected). Third was the Mills 31 Raptor
skipped by Fintan Cairns (0:47:28 corr).

In the last race before the class national championships this weekend on Belfast Lough, Philip Lawton's Puffling won the Flying Fifteen race with only two finishers. Niall Coleman in Flyer was second. 

All DBSC results are below.

Adam Winkelmann and Doug Smith, sailing Water Wag No. 46 Mademoiselle, clinched a late win in the beat to the finish of Wednesday evening's DBSC Water Wag Captain’s Prize Race. 

Race Officer Tadgh Donnelly set a three-round windward/leeward course, and the 24-boat fleet got off to a clear start after a brief postponement, as the line needed to be reset following a 20-degree wind shift in Dun Laoghaire Harbour.

Royal St. George's Sean and Heather Craig, sailing No.52 Puffin, led from the start but were hotly pursued by Mademoiselle.

Sean and Heather Craig, sailing No.52 Puffin in close competition with eventual winners Adam Winkelmann & Doug Smith sailing No. 46 Mademoiselle in tonight's DBSC Water Wag Captain’s Prize Race at Dun Laoghaire Harbour Photo: Brendan Briscoe

On the approach to the final gate, Mademoiselle pulled up level with Puffin and went for the port gate, so Puffin went for the starboard gate.

Mademoiselle crossed ahead of Puffin on the final short beat to get the gun in a very close finish.

Water Wag Class captain David Williams (left), winning helmsman Adam Winkelmann and Berna Williams Photo: Ann Kirwan

Results were:

1. No. 46 Mademoiselle Adam Winkelmann & Doug Smith
2. No. 52 Puffin Sean & Heather Craig
3. No. 15 Moosmie John O’Driscoll & Sarah Dwyer

Lindsay Casey's J97 Windjammer won Dublin Bay Sailing Club's (DBSC) AIB Summer Series race IRC Two division on Saturday afternoon.

The Royal St. George Yacht Club series leader finished with a corrected time of one hour, 24 minutes and 35 seconds to beat Fergus O'Sullivan's Sigma 33 Moonshine (1:36:44 corr). Third was Jim McCann's Mustang 30 Peridot (1:42:39 corr).

DBSC's IRC One division was won by Colin Byrne's Xp33 Bon Exemple, with the IRC Zero race abandoned.

Full results in all DBSC classes are below

Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) Race Officer Chris Moore was forced to cancel Wednesday night's weekly Water Wag racing due to a lack of wind on the Dun Laoghaire Harbour race course. 

Racing continues next Wednesday, with just four races left to sail in the 2023 season.

The aftermath of Storm Betty on Saturday afternoon led to a reduced racing schedule on Dublin Bay for the AIB DBSC Summer Series racing on August 19th.

The IRC cruiser fleets, Zero and Two were abandoned, with only one boat coming to the line in IRC Three.

The five-boat IRC One fleet, however, was won by Timothy Goodbody's J109 White Mischief in a corrected time of 1 hour 38 minutes and 03 seconds corrected to put the Royal Irish Yacht Club entry three points clear of clubmate Colin Byrne in the XP33 Bon Exemple at the top of the Saturday league with six Saturday races left to sail.

Second, in Saturday's 17th race was John Hall's sistership Something Else in a corrected time of 1:40:28, with another J109 third, Ben Shanahan's Ruth (1:41:26 corr)

In the one designs, Shane MacCarthy's Mr Potato Head from the National Yacht Club won a ten-boat Flying Fifteen fleet. Neil Colin's DMYC-based FFuzzy was second, with West Pier clubmate Alastair Court in FFinisterre third. 

The National Yacht Club's John Treanor won Thursday night's (August 17) DBSC Cruisers Zero IRC AIB race on Dublin Bay in his new this season J112E Valentina in a corrected time of 2:08:57

The win now puts Treanor thirteen points behind overall leader Sean Lemass in the First 40, Prima Forte from the Royal Irish Yacht Club.

Finishing second last night was Kyran McStay's X-34 D-Tox (2:13:23 corr), with Michelle Farrell's First 40.7 Tsunami third (2:14:24 corr) in the five-boat race.

In the one-design divisions, a 16-boat Flying Fifteen turnout saw class captain Robin Hilliard take the gun in 'fFastnet'. 

Results in all DBSC classes below.

Dublin Bay Sailing Club Race Officer Tadgh Donnelly set a three-round windward leeward course for the Water Wags race on Wednesday, August 16th.

Twenty-three boats competed in a 5-7kt SE breeze inside Dun Laoghaire Harbour.

Seán and Heather Craig’s Puffin from the Royal St. George Yacht Club just pipped clubmates Tim and Gillian Pearson’s Little Tern on the finish line. Little Tern had led the race from the start.

Results were:

1. No. 52 Puffin, Seán and Heather Craig
2. No. 36 Little Tern, Tim and Gillian Pearson
3. No. 47 Peggy, David & Patricia Corcoran