Who are we?
SB3 Ireland is the class association for the largest and newest Irish keelboat class. We have over 90 boats in Galway, Lough Derg, Dunmore East, Cork, Kinsale, Belfast Lough, Howth and Dun Laoghaire. We represent the full spectrum of age, (ranging from 20 to 70+) and skill sets (from Olympians to occasional club sailors) playing at all levels for big trophies throughout the country. We have five regional championships each year and vibrant local racing too.
Hear ye! Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
Only a month to go to the start of the SB3 season!
Howth Yacht Club’s Spring Warmer Series is offering two races on Saturday 10 April and two more on Saturday 17 April for the bargain price of €100 including cranage. First gun is set for 10.55 each Saturday and we’ll share the race course with Etchells, J-24s and Squibs.
Run quickly to this page on HYC’s website to download the Notice of Race and enter online. A great opportunity to brush off the cobwebs, tune up the boat and get some practice ahead of the Easterns on 24 April.
The Mitsubishi Motors SB3 Eastern Championships 2010 will take place at the Royal St George on the 24 and 25 April. Enter online here today and get a discount of €20 if your entry is received before 1 April. The Saturday night is not to be missed with a three course buffet and a few free drinks courtesy of SB3 Ireland and the George.
It’s going to be an awesome April!
The SB3 has seen extraordinary growth since its launch in the UK in 2002. Recently the SB3 World Council have reviewed a number of event bids from some outstanding venues and are delighted to announce that the Calendar of World and European Championships Events for the next three years has now been agreed.
The 2010 World Championship will be hosted by Circolo Vela Torbole, Lake Garda, Italy from 19 – 23 July 2010. The class returns to Lake Garda following the enormously successful European Championships in June 2005. Entries are expected to reach the limit of 120 long before the close of entries at the end of March 2010. The team at Circolo Vela Torbole are working hard to finalise plans for their event, which is guaranteed to be first class both on and off the water. The Notice of Race is available.
The Royal Torbay Yacht Club, UK has been awarded the 2011 SB3 World Championships which they will host in May. Torbay, a previous Olympic venue and host of the SB3 UK National Championships offers excellent sailing conditions and a race area that can more than cope with a multi-fleet championships. The Royal Torbay Yacht Club will provide a magnificent host club with outstanding race management and the use of fantastic harbour side facilities. William Butcher and Adrian Peach will lead the organisation in Torquay. Both William and Adrian have a wealth of experience to draw on to ensure an outstanding event is delivered in the birth nation of the SB3. With this in mind, competition is bound to be fierce and entry numbers high.
In 2012, the World Championships will be hosted for the fist time in a venue outside of Europe. Following a bid that boasts significantly subsidised shipping for forty, 40ft containers from a number of international ports, Geelong, Australia have secured the SB3 Worlds for January 2012. The event will be run alongside Audi Victoria Race Week, using separate race courses but ensuring the big event atmosphere for the visiting crews from across Asia, Europe and North America. Geelong has a huge amount to offer the SB3 World Championships, both on and off the water. Geelong has hosted an annual sailing regatta since 1854 and has a well established network of regatta logistics and facilities services and will provide a happy change to the northern hemisphere winter!
For those unable to travel to Australia for the World Championships the 2012 European Championships will be hosted in the Netherlands in the early Autumn 2012. Following the significant development of SB3 fleets in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands in the last couple of years, this is a perfect location for a significant gathering in Europe.
The SB3 Class proudly claims to be one of the most tightly restricted one design keelboat classes in the world with little variation from the builder’s final product permitted. With minimal maintenance, easy to trail and low campaign cost, the class thrives on its philosophy of providing inclusive, high intensity, great fun and easily attainable high quality racing for it’s members. With the World Championships calendar set for the next three events, the SB3 is the boat to be sailing.
April
10, 17 — Spring Warmer at Howth Yacht Club
24-25 — Mitsubishi Motors Eastern Championship – Royal St George Yacht Club
29 — First DBSC Thursday
View the Club’s video Notice of Race
The Royal St George Laser SB3 fleet of 18 boats has enjoyed a hectic season on Dublin Bay. We had 33 boats entered for DBSC racing and a great variety of events to augment the weekly stuff. This was the second season of Sunday racing under the burgee of DBSC (after the George provided the racing in the pioneering year of 2007) and the format of two windward-leeward races once again proved very popular. This year, we went for three series rather than two to keep things on the boil. The Sunday turnout averaged around 20 boats, with a season’s best of 25. Thursdays were good too with an average of about 15 boats out each week. The George boats were well to the fore throughout, especially “SinBin” (Barry O’Neill) and “Mephisto” (Tim Bourke). Another new development on the Bay this year was an extra few weeks racing in October, courtesy of the NYC Autumn series…more bang for your hard-earned € !!
The social element is always a bit tricky with Sunday as our main race-day but this was helped by monthly “Super Sundays”, with big BBQs after sailing and class-provided race day prizes. We also had the first ever SB3 Ladies Race in June, a well-supported race using normal DBSC Tuesday night racing. Fortunately we had a superb evening of glorious sunshine for a testing course set by Carmel and co. in the hut. George ladies Steph Bourke and Judy O’Beirne took 2nd and 3rd places. On the Friday of the same week, eight Dun Laoghaire SB3s went up the River Liffey straight after the Thursday night race for an extremely enjoyable Royal Alfred Liffey Challenge, sponsored by Dublin Port Co. George boats took 1st and 3rd with Sean Craig’s “Squalo Bianco” just about sneaking a win and Graham Elmes/Aidan O’Connell 3rd in “Trade Credit Brokers”.
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Sailed: 5, Discards: 1, To count: 4, Entries: 34, Scoring system: Appendix A
|
Boat |
SailNo |
Club |
HelmName |
Fleet |
R1 |
R2 |
R3 |
R4 |
R5 |
Total |
Nett |
| Team Redman Fisher | 3500 | RNIYC | Kennedy, Peter | Gold | 1.0 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 1.0 | (9.0) | 16.0 | 7.0 |
| Sharkbait | 3287 | H.Y.C | Duncan, Ben | Gold | (6.0) | 2.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 13.0 | 7.0 |
| Duff Beer | 3280 | Bell, Greg | Gold | (7.0) | 1.0 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 7.0 | 22.0 | 15.0 | |
| Squalo Bianco | 3281 | Sean Craig | Gold | 2.0 | 7.0 | 8.0 | (10.0) | 1.0 | 28.0 | 18.0 | |
| Alert Packaging | 3323 | Burke, Justin | Gold | 11.0 | 4.0 | (22.0) | 6.0 | 6.0 | 49.0 | 27.0 | |
| Dinhy Supplies | 3490 | Sheridan, Daragh | Gold | 4.0 | (35.0 OCS) | 7.0 | 14.0 | 3.0 | 63.0 | 28.0 | |
| Lia | 3449 | Barry, Dave | Gold | 10.0 | 8.0 | (24.0) | 3.0 | 12.0 | 57.0 | 33.0 | |
| inverswise.ie | 3240 | Quinn, David | Gold | 18.0 | 11.0 | 4.0 | 8.0 | (35.0 DNF) | 76.0 | 41.0 | |
| Monkey C Monkey Do | 3279 | O’Connell, Aidan | Gold | 5.0 | 9.0 | 11.0 | (35.0 OCS) | 18.0 | 78.0 | 43.0 | |
| QEP | 3226 | Paul McMahon | Gold | 8.0 | (13.0) | 9.0 | 13.0 | 13.0 | 56.0 | 43.0 | |
| Sailing West | 3043 | Paul Adamson | Gold | 3.0 | 6.0 | (28.0) | 15.0 | 20.0 | 72.0 | 44.0 | |
| Probably | 3314 | R.St.G.Y.C | Simington, Ian | Silver | 12.0 | (22.0) | 20.0 | 12.0 | 4.0 | 70.0 | 48.0 |
| Bullet | 3045 | Trevor D’arcy | Siver | (15.0) | 15.0 | 14.0 | 5.0 | 15.0 | 64.0 | 49.0 | |
| Milvus Milvus | 3338 | Howe, Robert | Silver | (30.0) | 20.0 | 17.0 | 9.0 | 5.0 | 81.0 | 51.0 | |
| BKC | 3273 | Tom Molloy | Silver | 19.0 | (35.0 OCS) | 6.0 | 20.0 | 8.0 | 88.0 | 53.0 | |
| Sibelus | 3324 | Dorgan, Kieran | Silver | 20.0 | 10.0 | 5.0 | (27.0) | 19.0 | 81.0 | 54.0 | |
| Mandarin | 3321 | Byrne, Rory | Silver | (26.0) | 16.0 | 12.0 | 17.0 | 11.0 | 82.0 | 56.0 | |
| Bom Chicka Wah Wah | 3312 | John O’Driscoll | Silver | 16.0 | 12.0 | 10.0 | 19.0 | (22.0) | 79.0 | 57.0 | |
| Bád Kilcullan | 3307 | Dowling, Gerry | Silver | 22.0 | 5.0 | 13.0 | 23.0 | (25.0) | 88.0 | 63.0 | |
| Shockwave | 3286 | Quinlan, Eoin | Silver | 23.0 | 18.0 | (30.0) | 7.0 | 16.0 | 94.0 | 64.0 | |
| Sin a Bhuill | 3165 | HYC | Guinness, Gillian | Silver | 17.0 | 14.0 | 23.0 | (28.0) | 14.0 | 96.0 | 68.0 |
| Jumpin’ Jack Flash | 3025 | L.D.Y.C | Foley, Jonathan | Silver | 13.0 | 23.0 | 16.0 | (26.0) | 21.0 | 99.0 | 73.0 |
| Gianze Red | 3426 | G.B.S.C | Aidan Breen | Bronze | (24.0) | 21.0 | 18.0 | 18.0 | 17.0 | 98.0 | 74.0 |
| Big Blue | 3268X | Mcguire, Brian | Bronze | 29.0 | (35.0 DNC) | 29.0 | 11.0 | 10.0 | 114.0 | 79.0 | |
| Leading Edge | 3337 | Suzie Mulligan | Bronze | 9.0 | 19.0 | 31.0 | 21.0 | (35.0 DNF) | 115.0 | 80.0 | |
| Ganze Black | 3270 | Scallan, Ben | Bronze | 14.0 | (35.0 OCS) | 15.0 | 35.0 DNC | 29.0 | 128.0 | 93.0 | |
| Lupi D’Irlanda | 3437 | Sorgassi, Marco | Bronze | (35.0 DNS) | 26.0 | 19.0 | 25.0 | 24.0 | 129.0 | 94.0 | |
| Smoke | 3320 | Hobby, Bob | Bronze | (27.0) | 17.0 | 27.0 | 24.0 | 27.0 | 122.0 | 95.0 | |
| Seriously Bonkers | 3484 | Lee, Stephen | Bronze | 28.0 | 24.0 | 21.0 | 22.0 | (31.0) | 126.0 | 95.0 | |
| Chieftain | 3243 | Gerard o’Rourke | Bronze | 21.0 | 27.0 | 25.0 | (35.0 OCS) | 26.0 | 134.0 | 99.0 | |
| Mephisto | 3308 | Bourke, Stephanie | Bronze | (35.0 DNS) | 35.0 DNC | 26.0 | 16.0 | 23.0 | 135.0 | 100.0 | |
| Commotion 2 | 3288 | Hartnett, Declan | Bronze | 31.0 | 25.0 | (35.0 DNC) | 30.0 | 30.0 | 151.0 | 116.0 | |
| Sunday Brunch | 3297 | Dwyer, David | Bronze | 25.0 | (35.0 DNC) | 35.0 DNC | 29.0 | 28.0 | 152.0 | 117.0 | |
| Totally Calm | 3196 | Marron, Paul | Bronze | (35.0 DNF) | 28.0 | 32.0 | 31.0 | 32.0 | 158.0 | 123.0 |
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