After their boat sinks, two Aussies are left floating around in their lifeboat

All of a sudden one of them spots a funny looking bottle bobbing in the water and pulls it out. He sees something written on the bottle but can't quite read it so he gives it a bit of a rub.. SHAZAM..... out pops a genie!

"For releasing me from the bottle I will grant you one wish" the genie says.

The guy glances at his mate, smiles and without further hesitation says, "I wish the whole ocean was beer!"

The genie claps his hands together and BOOM, there's a blinding light and the genie is gone. The guy quickly leans over the side of the boat and takes a big swig of "water". "You're not gonna believe this mate, but it's really beer!"

His mate screws up his face and says "That's just bloody brilliant mate! Now we're going to have to piss in the boat!!"

There was no genie required for an Australian sailor visiting Dublin Bay this weekend. In town for the European Championships and taking up the DL Dinghies invite to join in the local racing, he conjured up two incredible displays of what it's like to be at the top of the Laser game. Even a call of nature while ahead at the leeward mark of the first race didn't dent his lead. Between races, gentleman that Jared West is, he imparted details of the latest techniques for downwind sailing in Lasers. It's a shame us mere local mortals are still trying to master basic s-turns!

On the race course it was a day as tricky as any we have seen over the whole summer. Oscillating shifts were probably the easiest pattern to spot, getting in phase with the oscillations whilst avoiding the car parking lot sized holes was another matter entirely.

In both starts the pin was favoured and it seemed the middle left of the beats, while downwind in the first the left out in more tide seemed to pay. The second had Euromillions written all over it, very light breeze from the off, 3 (ambitious) rounds, a big left shift, dark menacing clouds and a very big wind hole called for massive amounts of patience. Jared, this was not normal. Our very best wishes for your Europeans Bid.

Results as always here http://www.dbsc.org/index.php/results

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