Frostbites over - roll on summer!

The 44th year of the DMYC Frostbites has finished. 44 years!

The prizegiving today featured a number of faces long known, and many new ones.

Colin Galavan picked up the overall Laser trophy for 2014/15, having also won in in 1980 and 1981! Meantime we also had a new special prize for the first Feva in the PY fleet, won by Lorcan Tighe and Cian Murphy. And the youngest competitor, aged just under 13, was Odhran Prouveur in a Feva with the oldest competitor's age simply unmentionable.

It's a unique institution.  See all the results here.

And now it's time for the DBSC racing, another institution!

The DBSC racing starts up at the end of April, just a month from now.

The Lasers, RS and Fireballs have racing on Tuesdays only, with PY, IDRA14 and Mermaids racing Tuesday and Saturday.  (We expect there will be a few Laser/RS/Fireball who also want to race on Saturdays and they can do so too with some minor admin)

So, get in touch with your class captain  if you have questions, or just enter online.
That's;
Laser - Sean Craig
PY - Hugh Sheehy
Fireball - Hermine O'Keefe
RS - Emmet Ryan
IDRA14 - Julie Ascoop
Mermaid - David Stedmond (Mermaids are dinghies!)

And the online entry is at http://www.dbsc.org/index.php?/dbsc-live/boat-entry

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Good or Bad for Dinghy sailing in Dun Laoghaire Harbor?

There is some initial information online already about the proposed Cruise Ship terminal in Dun Laoghaire.

If you're interested in Dinghy Sailing, you need to think about this plan and make sure that you register your view once the public consultation period begins on Monday 30th.

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Stunning Sunday

After the glorious conditions for the Colours match on Grand Canal Dock on Saturday the Frostbite sailors were confronted with even better conditions for the racing in Dun Laoghaire Harbor on Sunday.

Post by Dun Laoghaire Dinghies.

With two races on the day, it seems like the overall results got tighter in all classes. See the full results here.

In PY it looks like another discard may be crucial to sort out the differences. Shane McCarthy is still carrying a couple of DNC results and is close on the heels of Des Fortune's Finn.  That looks like the only possible change in the results, with Fortune's Finn otherwise clear ahead of Hamilton's IDRA.

In the Laser class Colin Galavan leads Sean Craig by a single point. After 18 races. They're probably in their own private battle next weekend. It'll be interesting to see if match racing breaks out!

In the RS fleets Emmet and James Ryan got a 1st and 2nd yesterday, and with Marty O'Leary absent they've pulled into a 7 point overall lead. And it looks unlikely to be reversed as long as the Ryans show up next week.

The Fireball class already seemed to have match racing ongoing this week, but with Kenny Rumball now 6 points ahead of Noel Butler it'll be a hard task to catch up.

As well as the racing there were OK Dinghies and Moths out getting in some practice for the summer.



Hopefully next week will match up to this week and there'll be a strong end to the Frostbite season. After some tricky days earlier this year it's all come good recently!

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Colours on the Docks

The UCD/TCD Colours Match took place yesterday on the Grand Canal Dock.

There was plenty of shouting! We understand TCD won in the end, on the kind of day that the organizers could only dream of.

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Double Day keeps overalls tight in all fleets

15th March saw the DMYC Frostbites get two solid races in, with a chilly breeze from the east and great conditions.

The wind direction meant that the course was laid for starboard roundings, but it worked out fine. 

In PY the Finn of Des Fortune is ahead overall, with Pierre Long's IDRA14 in 2nd and Richard Tate in 3rd. Shane McCarthy, who's been really consistent, is in 4th overall. Discards may still be crucial here, particularly for Shane. 

For all fleets the results are here.

In Lasers it's only moderately tight, with Colin Galavan 1st, ahead of Luke Murphy and the returned Gary O'Hare. But they're reasonably spread out. 

The RS400 fleet is TIGHT, the tightest. Emmet Ryan is ahead by three points after 16 races!  Marty O'Leary is in 2nd with Alex Rumball in 3rd...but he's just a point ahead of Sean Cleary. 

And in Fireballs the spread is somewhere in the "close, but not tight" phase. The top three are spread over 28 points, with Kenny Rumball ahead of Noel Butler and then the Clancy brothers.

With the event extended there are another 2 weekends to go and all of these results could be upended by an OCS, DNF or even just another discard coming in to play. 

It's all still on!

Post by Dun Laoghaire Dinghies.

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RS600 on the Harbor

If you haven't noticed the RS600 out on the harbor over the past couple of years then you've been missing a sight.

Peter Doherty has been out there ramping up his skills in one of the trickier boats you can sail.

An RS600 is light, fast, single-handed with trapeze and wings, an unstable canoe hull rather than a nice stable flat skiff hull, full battens to keep the power on even if you're not ready for it, and a 12m2 mainsail (nearly 20% more than a Finn), and all inside the puffy gusty confines of Dun Laoghaire Harbor.

But when you get it to work it's a responsive dream. Light, fast, great foils to steer and point with, POWER and the leverage to control it with.  But not an easy start.

Here's his video of the work so far. Kudos dude!  And anyone who thinks his self described "incompetence" isn't just the wrong description should give an RS600 a try. Inside Dun Laoghaire Harbor. And getting it out through Hell's Gates too.



I wanna see this boat at full charge, with Peter on the wire and hooting.

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Laser "Round the Island" event in Howth - get there!

The 40th Laser "Round the Island" event is on this Saturday 14th March in Howth.

See more information here.

Looks like being nice weather for it too!  http://goo.gl/g22URm

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RS and Fireball reports online - DMYC website back up

The reports of the Fireball and RS fleet's action in the DMYC Frostbites are online on Afloat and Yachts and Yachting;

• Fireball report
• RS report

The RS report even comes with a video again!   

Those RS guys are too cool...3D printed mast brackets!

Meantime the DMYC website is back online but we're waiting for results. There's a chance that the PY fleet suffered from some lap confusion, with at least one boat completing 5 laps instead of the required 4. It'll show up in the results.

Finally, the DMYC again went above and beyond with the race photos.

Post by DMYC Frostbite.

Twas a great day's sailing all around, despite the slightly delayed start. Onwards to next week.

Remember there are three weekends left since the DMYC has extended the season to catch up on lost days.

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