18 boats - with the possibility of a couple more - have entered the 2019 Dubarry sponsored SB20 National Championships to be hosted by the Royal Irish Yacht Club this coming weekend.
After what was a fantastic Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta with 16 SB20s competing for the silverware in July, the highlight of the SB20 season, the National Championships takes place this weekend.
As Afloat previously reported, crews must weigh-in for the championships and the combined upper crew weight limit is 270 kg.
Jerry Dowling, RIYC's Rear Commodore Sailing, and fellow RIYC Members Stefan Hyde and Jimmy Dowling are in top form in the fleet and were winners of an eight–boat Northern Championships fleet in May.
This weekend, the plan is to run eight races in total and it will be up to the RO to decide how many races are held each day, depending on the forecast. The forecast is looking really good for exciting championship racing.
The SB20 national championships fleet is below:
Sail No |
Boat |
Helm |
Crew 1 |
Crew |
Club |
3040 |
Provident CRM |
John Malone |
Emmet Sheridan |
Graeme Grant |
LRYC |
3297 |
Sunday Brunch |
Dave Dwyer |
TBC |
TBC |
RSGYC |
3314 |
Probably |
Ian Simington |
RSGYC |
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3320 |
Smoke on the Water |
Bob Hobby |
Paddy McGrath |
Owen Sinnott |
RSGYC |
3322 |
Sbodikins |
Cian Cahill |
RSGYC |
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3323 |
Sea Biscuit |
Marty Cuppage |
Barry Glavin |
Niall O'Riordan |
RSGYC |
3343 |
Rubadubdub |
Nick Doherty |
Conor O'Regan |
Gareth Nolan |
NYC |
3426 |
LoFly |
Philip Doran |
Simon Doran |
Bella Morehead |
NYC |
3433 |
Animal Origami |
Chris Chapman |
Richard Franke |
Fiannan Alt |
RSGYC |
3449 |
Lia |
Sarah byrne |
Flore Dion |
Hillary Mirray |
RSGYC |
3475 |
Sneaky B |
Charlotte O'Kelly |
Alison Piggot |
Cecile Van Steenberg |
NYC |
3500 |
Team Ridgeway |
Peter Kennedy |
Stephen Kane |
Hammy Baker |
SLYC/RNIYC |
3544 |
Ted |
Michael O'Connor |
Davy Taylor |
Edward Cook |
RSGYC |
3639 |
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Ger Dempsey |
Chris Nolan |
Tim Norwood |
RIYC |
3717 |
So Blue |
Justin Burke |
Alan Claffey |
Chris Helme |
NYC/RSGYC |
3737 |
Black |
James Gorman |
Séamus O’Donnell |
Sheena Bowers |
NYC |
3741 |
Bád Kilcullen |
Stefan Hyde |
Jimmy Dowling |
Kieran Dorgan |
RIYC |
3761 |
CARPE DIEM |
Colin Galavan |
Owen Laverty |
PJ Cully |
RIYC/RSGYC |