Flor O'Driscoll's Championship winning J24 has added another title to the cabinet this week when Dublin Bay Sailing Club released the 28 winners of its first mid-week series. O'Driscoll who picked up the overall award at last year's 2009 Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta is back in form taking the honours now in Class three.
DBSC organises racing on the bay for all the waterfront yacht clubs in Dun Laoghaire and the town marina, producing a combined fleet of nearly 300 boats. Its Thursday night fleet is one of the biggest yacht club turnouts in Europe.
George Sisk's Wow won Class Zero on IRC Handicap. A combined prize Cruisers Zero and One was was also awarded and this went to John Maybury's J109 Joker. ECHO honours in class zero went to Round Ireland entrant Tsunami sailed by Vincent Farrell. In the one design fleets Dick Lovegrove's Rupert was top in the Sigma 33s and Frank Hamilton's dinghy Dunmoanin' was the IDRA 14 winner. The first series winners are published below:
Midweek IRC Series 1:
Cruisers 0: WOW (George Sisk)
Cruisers 1: Jalapeno (Dermod Baker & others)
Combined Crs 0 & Crs 1: Joker 2 (John Maybury
Cruisers 2: Jawesome 2 ( Vivion Kennedy & others)
Cruisers 3: Hard on Port ( Flor O'Driscoll)
White Sails: Act 2 : Michael O'Leary & others
Midweek Echo Series 1:
Cruisers 0: Tsunami (Vincent Farrell)
Cruisers 1 Jalapeno (Dermod Baker & others)
Combined Crs 0 & Crs 1: Jalapeno (Dermod Baker & others)
Cruisers 2: Red Rhum (J. & C.Nicholson)
Cruisers 3:Asterix (J. Counihan & others)
Cruisers 4: Maranda (Myles Kelly)
White Sails: Act 2 : (Michael O'Leary & others)
31.7s Flying Machine (Conor O'Gallagher)
Midweek: One Designs: Series 1
Sigma 33s: Rupert (R.Lovegrove & P. Varian)
31.7s: Prospect (Chris Johnston)
Shipmans: Curraglas (John Masterson)
Dragons Diva (R. Johnson & T. Goodbody)
Ruffians: Ruffles (Michael Cutliffe)
Glens: Glendun (B.Denham & others)
SB3s: Sin Bin (Barry O'Neill)
Flying 15s:Fifty Somethings (David Mulvin)
Mermaids: Tiller Girl (Jonathan O'Rourke)
Squibs: Little Demon: (Marie Dee & Sheila Power)
Fireballs: Elevation (Neil Colin & Margaret Casey)
IDRA 14s: Dunmoanin' (Frank Hamilton)
Portsmouth Y'stick: Laser 178952 (Peter Craig)
Water Wags: Moosmie (David McFarlane)
There is regular DBSC coverage on Afloat.ie. Results posted immediately after race HERE