RAYC News - Royal Alfred Coastal Series: Race 1
The first race in the Royal Alfred Coastal Series, run in conjunction with ISORA was held on Saturday 28th April in cold blustery conditions.
Despite strong north-easterly winds, 18 boats came to the start line at 10.00am. From the 18 starters 8 had entered for the Alfred Coastal Series. The race was started by RAYC Commodore, Barry MacNeaney.
The 42 mile course took the fleet around South Burford and against the tide to North India. In the very ” lumpy” seas around Codling Bank the fleet beat out to East Codling before turning to the finish. The majority of the fleet finished between 15.00 and 16.30. A very creditable performance given the conditions.
Whilst the overall winner was J109, “Joker 2″ and the winner of the Silver fleet was “Desert Star” the results for the boats that entered the Royal Alfred Coastal Series are given below.
With two more races in the series, we will accept entries for another two weeks and the results of the first race will be counted towards the final placings.
Thanks are due to ISORA and Peter Ryan for his huge efforts in getting out a consistently high number of competitors and for his support of the Royal Alfred in running this joint venture.
The next race in the Coastal Series is an overnight on Friday 27th July. Peter Ryan will be posting full details of this on the ISORA Website nearer the date.
Results: 1) "Joker 2", 2) "Jedi", 3) "Tsunami", 4) "African Challenge", 5) "Lula Belle", 6) "Legally Blonde", 7) "Adelie".
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| Exciting Conditions in HYC at the RAYC Niobe
50 boats entered the Royal Alfred Yacht Club Niobe Trophy, run in conjunction with the last day of the Howth YC Spring Warmer series on Saturday 28th April.
The RAYC Niobe Trophy has long been a feature of the racing calendar in Howth. This year, in a change of format, the Niobe Trophy was sailed in conjunction with the last day of the Howth Yacht Club Spring Warmers Series. In this way, boats had an extra motivation to compete on the closing day of the series.
Traditionally, both the Niobe Trophy and the Spring Warmer series were events for one-design keel boats. This year they were also open to the Cruiser Classes.
The blustery north easterlies, with associated lumpy seas and cold rain, made for exciting conditions. All classes sailed two races. For boats winning the Spring Warmer series just covering their positions did not guarantee victory in the Niobe Trophy. Such was the case with Ben Duncan's "Sharkbait" beating Shane Murphy in the SB3's. Flor O'Driscoll beat the Lough Erne visitors in the J24's to take both series as did Dan O'Grady's "Kootamundra" in the Etchells. Alan Pearson won the Puppeteers. Other results: Squib class: "Kerfuffle" Johnathan Craig. Class 1: "Equinox" Ross McDonald. Class 2: "Sunburn" Ian Byrne and Class 3: "Starlet" Eddie Bourke & others.
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2012 RAYC Superleague Notice of Race
The Royal Alfred Yacht Club is relaunching the Superleague concept to a new generation of sailors in 2012 with the aim of rewarding the best boats, skippers and crews, across the whole season, in each class in Dublin Bay.
RACES: The Superleague will consist of 10 individual events/races - 6 Club Regattas - DMYC, RAYC, HYC, NYC, RIYC, RStGYC - together with 4 DBSC Saturday races - one in : 12th May 2012, 28th July 2012, 18th August 2012 and 8th September 2012. There will be 4 discards with 6 results to count. RAYC Bloomsday is non discardable. This will provide for very close overall results with final results in the balance right up to the last race in the series. The Superleague will be open to all classes of keelboats in Dublin Bay. Visitors from Howth or elsewhere are also welcome. Entry fees will be modest and structured to reflect the number of crew in each class/boat. ENTER ONLINE by by selecting EVENTS tab and scroll down clicking on the SUPERLEAGUE event or by snail mail using attached form. Owner/Skipper must be a member of the RAYC. Classes: Cruisers 0 IRC and Echo, Cruisers 1 IRC and Echo, Cruisers 2 IRC and Echo, Cruisers 3 IRC and Echo and Whitesails IRC and Echo. First 31.7, Sigma, Dragon, SB3, Glen, Ruffian 23, Shipman, Flying 15, Squib, Puppeteer..
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