Strong and bitterly cold north-westerly winds scotched racing in Dublin Bay and Kinsale yesterday. Winds gusting to 30–knots in snow showers. it was more than enough to put paid to the second race of the DBSC Spring Chicken Series, the Kinsale Yacht Club Frostbite racing and yesterday afternoon's DMYC dinghy frostbite series in Dun Laoghaire Harbour too with an early call by organisers on Saturday night.
Go–ahead organiser Fintan Cairns went to sea with his 40–boat DBSC Spring Chicken fleet early yesterday morning and was on station in his DBSC Committee Boat Freebird but winds built to such an extent in the short time they were afloat that it left Cairns with no option but to 'pull it', as the fleet got ready for the second of six races in the popular warm-up to the DBSC Summer Series.
It was 'very cold, making the wind feel even heavier', Cairns told Afloat.ie
