Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club Frostbite Series - Update

The Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club have updated their results service for the 2018/19 Frostbites to generate the Series 2 Overall Results to date and the Combined Results for Series 1 & 2 to date.

In the PY Class, as I have alluded to in my various reports the principal contest for the overall win is being fought out by the Fireball of Noel Butler & Stephen Oram (15061) and the Solo of Shane McCarthy (50). In terms of Series 2, to date, the Fireball pair have a six-point advantage after discard, with nine races sailed and a second discard kicking in.

However, in terms of the combined series to date, the situation is much tighter as these two are tied on 24 points each. Their respective score-lines are "littered" with ones and twos, but McCarthy has two DNCs to discard, each worth 44 points, and these with another three "drops" sees his total points drop from 131 to 24 points. Butler & Oram's "drops" are much more conservative, the worst being a 12.

In third place in both Series 2 and Combined is the Wayfarer (11152) of Monica Schaeffer & Miriam McCarthy, followed, in both again, by the Fireball (14691) of Louise McKenna & Hermine O'Keeffe. The top five in both is rounded out by Frank Miller & various crews in Fireball 14713.

In the Laser Full Rig Class Series 2 is being led comfortably by Peter Fagan (8) who has a nineteen-point cushion over second placed Chris Arrowsmith (27) with Conor Kinsella (46) third. Fagan has only dropped one first place in the eight races sailed thus far, scoring second and has discarded a DNF from the first race of the series. Fourth and fifth places overall are occupied by Gavan Murphy (48) and Brian Hall (49).

In the Combined Series, only Chris Arrowsmith retains a podium place, leading the combined results with a 39-point margin (40). Gavan Murphy (79) and Conor O'Leary (89) close out the podium followed by Niall Cowman (94) and Gary O'Hare (100).

In the 4.7s Conor Gorman (17) will have to keep an eye on second placed Pepe de Sintas who is only four points adrift and de Sintas has thirteen points on Hugh O'Connor (34) in third, with Haemish Munro (40) in fourth and Kitty Flanagan (44) in fifth.

Gorman (37) leads the combined series with the same four-point margin but this time it is Adam Walsh (41) who trails him, with O'Connor (45), Munro (89) and Flanagan (95) in his wake.

Mr Consistency in the Radials, Sean Craig, is rewarded with an 8-point lead in Series 2 with Marco Sorgassi (16) and Shirley Gilmore (39) occupying the other podium places. Sean discards two second places and counts one second place to get to this minimalist score-line (nine races sailed, two discards). Fourth and fifth are closed out by Judy O'Bierne (42) and Sean Flanagan (46).

In the combined results the top five remain the same except that Sean Flanagan and Judy O'Bierne swap places. Thus, the pecking order reads; Craig (28), Sorgassi (41), Gilmore (100), Flanagan (114) and O'Bierne (124).

For the 2018/19 Frostbites, there has been a huge increase in the numbers entered and this is reflected as follows; PY Entries (43), Laser Full Rig (19), 4.7s (18) and Radials (36). The Radials have benefitted from an injection of numbers from the Youth Classes and their enthusiasm manifests itself on the water where the black flag starting protocol has had to be used more than once. Indeed, their enthusiasm for starting early cost them a complete race as recently as last Sunday, not just a rescheduled start.

The complete results are available on the DMYC website www.dmyc.ie