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#dbsc – Noted quarter tonner Supernova, currently for sale, has won Dublin Bay Sailing Club's (DBSC) top award for handicap cruiser racing having won seven individual trophies in the 2012 DBSC season. The full DBSC prizewinners list for 2012 is below. Over ninety trophies will be awarded at one of Irish sailing's biggest nights of the year when DBSC's prizegiving takes place on the 16th November 2012 at the Royal St.George Yacht Club in Dun Laoghaire.

Among the awards to be made is one for a notable contribution to sailing and this year it will be made to Annalise Murphy for her Olympic performance in Weymouth.

In a note to members in DBSC's annual report outgoing Commodore Tony Fox makes a number of points about the Dublin Bay 2012 wind patterns, so critical in the enjoyment of our sailing, which were disconcerting in the extreme. On four successive Thursdays in May, racing had to be cancelled for lack of wind. On another two, the same happened because there was too much of it. There were another two Thursdays when racing was possible for the Blue fleet only. Boats racing on Tuesdays did note escape scot-free either. On four Tuesdays racing had to be cancelled, fog or thick, impenetrable mist being responsible on two occasions.

Yet looking back on 2012 we can remember there e were many days of splendid, exhilarating racing that made one forget the frustrations of early summer. As sailors we take the weather as it comes – sailing is all about adapting to wind and tide and it has never been otherwise. In 2007, "the worst summer on record" we were told, no less than eleven days racing had to be cancelled. What makes 2012 stand out is the fact that most of the cancellations happened on successive Thursdays, on the most popular racing day of the week. Oddly, there were no cancellations of Saturday races.