Yes congrads guys
Toy Yot is based in Malahide as far as I know
Just an update on
minitonner.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=bitsforsale&action=post&thread=146"e=846&page=1I got in my first full season in Excalibur.
My club ( Bray) has three series - wednesday , Saturday and Longdistance about ten/eight/six races
Wed and Sat are round the cans usually about an hour long.
AS Im new to racing I didnt concentrate on them. well I also go for holidays mid summer.
So I got in two Wed and six Sat i think.
the LD races are Bray to Howth or Malahide or to Wicklow in the other direction. Usually an overnight stay and race back the next day. 3-4 hrs on a good day. Bad tide and low wind had me doing 8 1/2 hrs this year to Malahide. Singlehanded. And I came second in that one!
I won the return leg next day in 3 1/2 hrs - by 22 seconds!
Also singlehanded.
I came second in the Howth leg but the was a big Regatta on in Howth and the bigger boats could not get space so we stayed in Malahide. I had one crew and we lost a few mins at the start as well as the keel winch breaking. But we were mostly into the wind so didnt lose much on that. Next day we raced back from Malahide instead of howth. A run most of the 18 miles. i wanted to hit the line fast this time and yelled for the novice crew to hoist the main quick with 1 min and about half a cable to the line. He winched so hard the halliard came off and ran up the mast. I haden't a hope of getting main and announced my loss. After a 15 minute rethink and considering I was not going to fly with the keel down on a run I decided to go it anyway. Starting 20 mins behind we finished 40 mins behind after 3 1/2 hrs.
All the other boats except for an ETAP 22 are much longer than mine.
Look at recent results here
www.braysailingclub.ie/Anyway the short version is Excalibur won the Long distance Cup.
I did okay in the Saturday and overall series too after a season of learning the local conditions and how a Limbo 66 handles. Still need some experience and hoping to get some crew trained this year.
If I get her up to full speed I think Ill have to say goodbye to Cruisers 2 and move into Cruisers 1 for our club but then I am up against 30-33 footers and will get trounced in heavy weather.
Otherwise this is my first year maybe racing outside the club and I might come up against Toy Yot in Dun Laoghaire Regatta if I can make it there. I think it is class 4 nationally?
www.hyc.ie/openevents12/bmwCruiserNats/results/results.asp?pname=4_irc_os.htmlOtherwise Asterix is the sort of boat ill be tracking in DBSC
87.192.148.30/dbsc/Racing/BoatResults.asp?boat=Asterix&forClubs=Class 3 for DBSC
(which is an amalgam of six Dun Laoghaire sailing clubs plus some marina boats)
Although with the Amount of Races I do Im more suited to raced Jammie Dodger
In any case great work Toy Yot as a new arrival in the Dublin cruising scene you stuck it to them in the nationals!