Jelly Bean National Yacht Club Regatta

A great day and great photos from the Jelly Bean NYC Regatta.

These pics and more at the Aidan Tarbett Gallery here.  Copyright is Aidan's

• Paul Keane won in the Lasers (results here)
• Louise McKenna and Goodness Gracious won the Fireballs on a countback (result here) 
• ...and we can't find the Moth results yet....where are they?

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Island Trial??

People kept asking what happened to The Island Trial.

http://islandtrial.blogspot.ie/2014/06/suspended-for-legal-risk.html

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Last Friday - this Friday

The Friday evening series will be on at the George again this week, with friendly sailing and good BBQ.

Meantime, here are some pics from last week showing the tight mark roundings that the RS and Laser fleets had on many occasions.

All good stuff!

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5 in 2

Tuesday night saw tight racing at the top, with 5 boats finishing inside two minutes on corrected time.

Tom Murphy's K1 split the four leading Lasers, finishing 3rd. Keanneally finished 1st, Galavan 2nd and Murphy pipping O'Leary and Dwyer - also in Lasers - to the podium.

The gaps got a bit bigger after that, with two Mermaids next in line and the asymmetrics pullling up the rear - handicapped most by the light airs perhaps.

See results here.

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Saturday - OK & RS alone

Saturday was a beautiful day with sun and unexpectedly strong winds, peaking with 30 knot gusts instead of the forecast 15-20 knots. Seapoint was playing rough too, with short steep chop in the shallow water on a very low tide.

Disappointingly there were only two PY dinghies on the course, sharing the water with three Fireballs, three (?) IDRA14s and three Mermaids.

Sunny Saturdays

The course was set for three laps of a W-L, and set LONG too. In PY Sheehy's OK Dinghy finished the first race in a little under an hour while the RS actually sailed the Flying Fifteen course and completed 4 laps, gifting the win to the OK and making that first race extra hard work!

For Race 2 the OK had to head for home after one leg, having underestimated the length of the races and needing to be back ashore, leaving O'Hare's RS400 to complete the course and take the win.

Race 1
Race 2

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Live Tracking for the OCD Laser Sailor

If you're obsessive compulsive you'll be able to spend hours and hours looking at this stuff.

These are the tracks from the LogMeIn Irish Laser Masters 2014 last weekend. These are the tracks that go with the videos from the previous post. 

Race 1

Race 2

Race 3

Race 4

Race 5

Race 6

 

You need to zoom in a lot and it's best to orient the course to have windward at the top rather than North at the top, but it's well worth it.  You can see when you were going fast and slow and/or just in the wrong direction. 

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Review the LogMeIn Laser Masters!

See who were the clever sailors in the LogMeIn Laser Masters last weekend. The full GPS logs should be available online soon, but meantime the blow-by-blow videos are already available.

Here's a selection.

  

Lots to learn!!

Get a good start. Sail fast. Keep out of trouble. Doh.

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Double DSQ

Tuesday night's results saw a narrow win for Colin Galavan, beating Ronan Kenneally home by 23 seconds. Both were in Lasers with Tom Murphy's K1 the next boat home. Results here.

The weather might have been the story, with a heavy shower coinciding with the start of the racing, but with two boats DSQ on the night we bet there's a proper story there somewhere too!

We'll get the full report as soon as possible.

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LogMeIn Irish Laser Masters

This race report, 2nd June 2014 first appeared on afloat.ie

Event winner, Nick Walsh

Every championship regatta is a network of many moving parts that organisers pray will mesh neatly on the day. The biggest moving part in our sport of sailing is of course the weather and over this we have no control. In the RIYC on Friday morning after 5 months of planning the 2014 LogMein Laser Masters Championship began to grind into action. As boats were being branded with decals from sponsor LogMeIn a perfect breeze under a clear sky kicked in. Suddenly it appeared as if the whole thing just might work.   And it did!

A crowded startline

Saturday morning dawned the same as Friday, overcast skies and a pleasantly warm air temperature. By 11am the weather pattern was repeating itself as clouds burnt off, a blue sky revealed itself and thank you thank you thank you the first zephyrs of breeze began to appear in the flags on the mast above the RIYC forecourt.

LogMeIn, event sponsor.

Boats arrived all morning from the major Laser sailing centres of Cork and Ballyholme though the turnout from closer fleets like Howth was very disappointing for the organisers. Local sailors didn't need to bring their boats to the RIYC and launched from their own clubs. This gave the visiting sailors in the RIYC extra breathing room on the deck and during launching and recovery which at a Laser event can sometimes be a hectic experience.

The fleet approaching the finish

Out on the Race Course PRO Henry Leonard and his team setup in the pre-chosen race area located in the western area of Seapoint Bay. The Lasers had opted for for this race area weeks earlier in discussions with DBSC to make sure all of the fleets racing in the bay at the weekend could co-exist peacefully. It's good to talk. 

(For the rest of the article, click "read whole article" link below)

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RAYC Regatta

 

RAYC Bloomsday Regatta Saturday 14^th June 2014

Don't forget there are only 10 days to go to the 2014 Bloomsday Regatta!

This annual favorite is hosted by the Royal Irish Yacht Club and entry forms are on-line at www.rayc.ie and will be in the Dun Laoghaire Clubs this week.

Windward Leeward courses for one design yachts and Triangular courses for the dinghy classes will give racing that is both competitive and enjoyable. Dublin Bay will be filled with the magnificent sight of almost 200 boats as the ICRA National Championships are also being run on the same day. The Royal Irish Yacht Club are laying on a shore based program to ensure that there will be something for everyone.

Prizes will be presented on Saturday after racing and the RAYC trophies will be presented at the Annual Dinner on Friday November 21^st to be held in the RIYC.

Don’t miss this great day - enter now!

Enquiries: RAYC Hon Secretary rayc.honsec@gmail.com    

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