Cormac Bradley
Dublin Bay Fireballer Cormac Bradley was appointed Rear Commodore of the International Fireball Class in 2017. He is a regular dinghy and one design correspondent on Afloat.ie
Start Line Enthusiasm Costs the ILCA 6s at the Viking Marine DMYC Frostbite Series in Dun Laoghaire Harbour
15th February 2023 DMYC
After a Sunday of too much breeze, followed by a Sunday of variable breeze, the DMYC Viking Marine Frostbites fleet had a Sunday where the wind was much more manageable in terms of consistency and strength. We also had a…
Difficult Day All Round at the DMYC Viking Marine Frostbites at Dun Laoghaire Harbour
6th February 2023 DMYC
There are days when it is difficult for competitors, there are days when it is difficult for the Race Officer, and then there are days when it is difficult for everyone! Sunday, 5th February, was one of these latter days!!…
Fast and Furious at the Viking Marine DMYC Dinghy Frostbites in Dun Laoghaire Harbour
30th January 2023 DMYC
With “Frostbites Director” Neil Colin off on a sporting holiday, the decision on whether to race yesterday fell squarely on the shoulders of the day’s Race Officer, Cormac Bradley, and while I had been monitoring the weather as early as…
Simple Course Causes Confusion at the Viking Marine DMYC Frostbites in Dun Laoghaire Harbour
23rd January 2023 DMYC
The Race Management Team from DMYC and the weather combined to get another two races completed in the Viking Marine-sponsored Series 2 Frostbites in Dun Laoghaire Harbour on Sunday. Winds were in the range 7 – 15 knots from the…
The critical aspect of last Sunday’s DMYC Frostbites, sponsored by Viking Marine, was the air temperature rather than the wind strength. True, there had been a severe wind warning as late at 13:00 on the Saturday, with Severe Gale Force…
Challenging Conditions for the Viking Marine DMYC Dinghy Frostbite Fleet at Dun Laoghaire Harbour
9th January 2023 DMYC
The weather forecasts during the week leading up to Round two of the post-Christmas DMYC Frostbites in Dun Laoghaire, sponsored by Viking Marine, might have led one to believe that racing would not be possible. Indeed, on Thursday and Friday,…
Laser Ace Sean Craig Wins in Modest Viking Marine DMYC Christmas Cracker Fleet at Dun Laoghaire Harbour
28th December 2022 DMYC
A modest fleet of 20 boats sailed the Viking Marine sponsored DMYC hosted Christmas Cracker yesterday afternoon (Tuesday 27th) made up of a mix of Aeros, ILCA 7s, 6s and 4s, Fireballs, an RS400 and a 49er that joined in…
Dun Laoghaire’s Flying Fifteen Fleet Mark the Close of the 2022 Summer Sailing Season!
20th December 2022 Flying Fifteen
One of the largest one-design fleets in Dublin Bay Sailing Club, the Flying Fifteens, gathered at the end of November in the Royal St. George Yacht Club to mark the close of the 2022 season. In contrast to the previous…
Wet and Windy End to Series One of the Viking Marine DMYC Frostbites at Dun Laoghaire
19th December 2022 DMYC
In a week that saw the lowest overnight temperatures in 10 years in most parts of Ireland, the last weekend of the pre-Christmas Series 1 of the Viking Marine-sponsored DMYC Frostbites came to a mild, wet and windy end yesterday,…
A few weeks past, the Fireball Class gathered at the National Yacht Club in Dun Laoghaire Harbour to celebrate the 2022 season, to recognise the superb effort that so many people put into the Fireball Worlds in Lough Derg in…
DMYCFor the first time this season, the Viking Marine-sponsored Frostbites, hosted by the DMYC, lived up to their name as yesterday’s racing was held in very low temperatures, only a couple of degrees above zero. And, accordingly, the speculation from…
On Monday 21st November, the Irish Fireball Class Association held its AGM on Zoom, with an attendance of twenty-six people, including a number of new faces who have made their appearance in the boat over the course of the 2022…
Weather Conditions Even Better Than the Forecast at the Viking Marine DMYC Frostbites!
29th November 2022 DMYC
After a single race Sunday two weeks ago and no races a week ago, there was some pressure, possibly self-inflicted, to get racing this past Sunday in the Viking Marine, DMYC hosted Frostbites. As usual, the assessment of what might…
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.The evil that men do lives after them;The good is oft interred with their bones;” Mark Anthony’s speech on the death of Julius CaesarFrom Shakespeare’s play…
New Captain for Dun Laoghaire Flying Fifteen Fleet Announced at AGM
16th November 2022 Flying Fifteen
The Dun Laoghaire Flying Fifteen fleet held their AGM last night, chaired by the outgoing Captain, Jill Fleming and attended by seventeen members with representation from the three Dun Laoghaire clubs which have “Fifteens” on their decks, the National Yacht…
From mid-week, the prospects for the Viking Marine-sponsored DMYC Frostbite racing this past Sunday were a source of discussion between Regatta Director Neil Colin and Race Officer Cormac Bradley as XCWeather was suggesting winds in the high teens with gusts…
Dun Laoghaire Harbour Flying Fifteens Close Out the 2022 season in Sunshine!
8th November 2022 Flying Fifteen
Eleven Flying Fifteens played out the last act of the 2022 sailing season under sunshine conditions on 5th November in good winds from a westerly direction. The early part of the day saw the freshest breezes, but they eased slightly…
On the Wednesday evening before the start of the 2022/23 Frostbites, sponsored by Viking Marine and hosted by Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club, a cursory check of the forecast for the weekend suggested that the opening Sunday might not happen.…
Ben Mulligan Remembered at National Yacht Club Flying Fifteen Frostbites Round Three
1st November 2022 Flying Fifteen
On the eve of the third round of the Flying Fifteen Frostbites, hosted by the National Yacht Club, we were all shocked to hear that our dear friend Ben Mulligan had passed away. Ben was an integral part of the…
One of the smaller Flying Fifteen fleets of the year, ten boats, turned out for the last DBSC Saturday of 2022. A number of crews were away sailing Fireballs in Killaloe, and some others are away on holidays, and it…