Tralee Bay Sailing Club

Our Autumn Regatta will take place on Saturday September 4th and includes the Peter Greene Trophy for under-19 sailors and the Young Helmsman Trophy for Optimist sailors.

Registration 9-10.30am

Briefing 10.30am

First Gun 12.00 

3 Races followed by BBQ and Prizegiving

Prizewinners

May June Wednesday Series: 1st Diarmuid McNamara, 2nd Liam Lynch, 3rd Kate & Tadgh 420

May June Wednesday Series Oppies: 1st Louise Magowan, 2nd Cillian Tierney, 3rd Sophie Browne

June Saturday Series: 1st Tadgh O'Loinsigh, 2nd Antoine Coadau, 3rd Michael Lynch

Our Oppie cruise sunday July 11th has been cancelled due to weather.

The Jones Cup

The Jones Cup - (round the Islands Race) will be held this Sunday July 11th FG at 2pm. Now that all of the keelboats are back from WIORA a big turnout is expected and the forecast is not bad. Prizegiving afterwards in the club.

8 boats from TBSC set off for Kilrush to take part in WIORA 2010. Unfortunately only 7 of them arrived in racing trim! The event was hosted by the Royal Western Yacht Club with Alan Crosbie as race officer so a good weekend was assured. The wind cooperated and blew with a vengeance, so much so that racing was cancelled on Friday. The first day of racing was Wednesday and the best of our boats was Treyona with a win in race 2. Thursday was very windy with gusts of over 30 knots and most boats opted not to fly kites and many of those that did got into trouble. A spectacular collision involving Strictly Business, Disaray, a broach and two men overboard was captured on camera and was certainly the most viewed picture afterwards. Treyona however also raised eyebrows as she sailed the second race with a badly torn mainsail and managed a good result. Powder monkey towed jaguar in afterwards and managed to get her aground outside the lock gates after fouling her prop with the tow rope. A huge crowd gathered on Powder Monkey's bow in the lock to allow the rope to be cut off and she was able to motor to the marina unaided.

After the enforced rest day on Friday there was still all to play for on Saturday. Two further races were held albeit in only 20 knots! Treyona provided the best entertainment with a huge broach under the committee boat (approx 1100 tons of navy ship, LE Aoife). She recovered quickly enough to the win that race though. Powder Monkey was in trouble again with engine failure and had to be towed through the lock. 

The organising committee would not give details of the overall results until the prizegiving dinner and many an anxious skipper was seen calculating results and discards. Eventually the best result was a class win in ECHO 2 for Powder Monkey with a string of top 3 finishes. Treyona was 3rd in both IRC and ECHO 2. In class 3 Jaguar was second in ECHO and third in IRC with Rooster third in ECHO. The overall winner ov the event was Dis-a-ray with our own Brian O'Sullivan on the helm.

Next year's event will be in Clifden again and plans are already been made for 2013 when the event will return to Fenit in tandem with ICRA.

TBSC Laser sailors enjoyed challenging conditions at the Laser Leinster Championships in Wexford over the weekend. Kate, Michael and Tadgh did well with Michael taking honours this time around with 18th overall in the 4.7 fleet. Our recently adopted french sailor, Antoine had a super event finishing 2nd overall in the highly competitive Radial fleet and Ian survived in the Full Rig without  drowning! We wish Antoine "Bon Chance" as he travels on to Scotland for the Radial Worlds before returning to Tralee.

We had another great morning for "Taste of Oppies" last saturday when nearly 30 kids took to the water. Many thanks to all the volunteers and coaches who helped out and made the session a great success. If you are interested in going Oppie sailing every week contact one of us below for more details about getting a boat and getting started. Regular Oppie coaching continues every saturday morning at 10.30 for all those with their own boats.

Dave 087-2541000  Pat 087-2596666  Ian 087-6459666