Fifteen to 20-knot northwesterly winds and big seas on Dublin Bay presented some testing conditions for Saturday's AIB DBSC Summer Series racing. 

Cruisers Zero division racing was abandoned, and in a race between two boats in IRC One, Tim Goodbody's White Mischief beat J109 sistership, Jump the Gun, skippered by Michael Monaghan. 

Ed Melvin's Ceol na Mara got the advantage over Myles Kelly's Maranda in another two-boat race in the IRC Cruisers IRC Three division.

In the one designs, Jimmy Fischer's Billy Whizz won from Joe Smyth's Yikes in the Beneteau 211 (scratch racing). Third was Jacqueline McStay's Small Wonder.

In a six-boat Beneteau 31.7 race, Chris Johnston's Prospect from the National Yacht Club won from clubmate John Power's Levante. Third was Michael Bryson's Bluefin Two.

The National Yacht Club's David Gorman won from Neil Colin in a nine-boat Flying Fifteen turnout.

A 2,1 scored in Wednesday night's DBSC Water Wag races in Dun Laoghaire Harbour has put Royal St. George's Sean and Heather Craig in Puffin 14 points clear at the top of the Summer Series. 

Second overall is Guy Kilroy's Swift on 44 points, with John O'Driscoll's Moosmie third on 57.

The results for Wednesday's races are below:

Race 18 2 Aug 2023

1 Number 42 William Prentice
2 Number 52 Puffin Sean Craig 
3 Number 45 Mariposa Cathy Mac Aleavey

Race 19 2 Aug 2023

1 Number 52 Puffin Sean Craig 
2 Number 45 Mariposa Cathy Mac Aleave
3 Number 3 Pansy Vincent Delany

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 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

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.