#JUNIOR SAILING – Laser, Feva, 420, Optimist and Topper fleets competed in the first sailing regattas on Dublin Bay at the weekend when The Royal St. George Yacht Club staged the Craftinsure.ie the RSGYC Junior Spring Open. (Full results downloadable as attachments for the seven fleets below). Dublin Bay Dolphins accompanied the juniors for both days of the competition.
Howth's Richard Hogan won the 37-boat Optimist division even though the National Yacht Club's Daniel Raymond finished on the same overall points. Hogan's consistency paid off discarding his fourth place scored in the first race to count five individual podium results.
Over 100 dinghy sailors contested one of the season's first events on Dublin Bay with six races and ideal sailing conditions in Scotsman's side on the southern shore of Dublin bay. The event turned out to be a great curtain raiser to next month's Mitsubishi Youth Nationals and July's ISAF Youth World Championships.
Waterford's Dougie Power won the 16-point Topper fleet from Carlingford's Conor O'Farrell by a two points. Third was Courtown's Keving Harrington.
In the double handed classes there was only a six boat turnout in the RS Feva's which was won by the National Yacht Club's Conor Totterdell. Malahide visitor Cara McDowell won the 420 class from Kate Lyttle of the host Club.
Two courses were run in the bay, whilst there was also a harbour course for the more junior of the Optimist sailors.
In the Laser 4.7 it was Conor O'Beirne from the George who won (counting four firsts and two seconds) followed by Helen Cooney from the NYC and Stephen Craig from the RSGYC. In the Radial class it was an all George affair with James Eggers followed by Frank Devlin and Sarah Hyland.
12 other clubs participated in the event – from Strangford and Carlingford going north to Wexford and Waterford going south including two sailors from Baltimore in West Cork. The Royal St. George now see the regatta as annual event now in the club calendar.
Full results below downloadable as word docs
