With the new season less than 8 weeks away, its time to dust off your sailing repertoire and socialise!

The SB20 class dinner is arranged for Friday 7th of March 2014. So if you are keen on catching up with your class buddies, poaching some crew and indulging in some tasty food – its the place to be! Our esteemed class president Justin Burke may even have a few words to say on the night…

Date: Friday 7th March
Time: 6.30 pm
Venue:Royal St George Yacht Club
Cost:€40 per person
To Reserve: Call 01 2801811

Dress code is smart casual and early booking is recommended!

A belated but very necessary congratulations to Ben on winning the All Ireland Championship held at Howth last October, and to his crew Joe Turner and Davie Taylor.

Threatening gales cut the event to just 1 day, and 7 races. The 16 strong fleet was split into 2 flights, and each flight raced 2 qualifying races in the ISA’s J80s. Ben was overall winner in flight 1. He took line-honours in race 1, and was 2nd in race 2, behind Cillian Dickson (J24, HYC). Noel Butler (Fireball) topped the flight 2, on joint points with Colin Byrne (ICRA 1, RIYC).

After a 2-hour postponement due to heavy wind, the finals were contested by the top 4 boats in each flight. Ben won the first 2, and was 2nd in the last – behind a very deserving Séafra Guilfoyle (Junior Winner, RCYC) who finished 2nd overall. It was Ben who took gold, however, on 5 points overall, and 4 points clear of Séafra.

It is massively encouraging for the class, and yet another sign of the quality of racing that we enjoy in the Irish SB20 fleet.

See the ISA website for more detail, and breakdown of the results.

Afloat has some nice photos of the day’s racing.

Source: Afloat, ISA

Thanks to Ben Duncan for the serious work involved in compiling the attached ranking and results lists.

SB20 Results Ranking to Dec2013

Event	Dates
Howth spring warmer	6th April
Howth spring warmer	13th April
Howth spring warmer	20th April
DBSC	27th April
DBSC	4th May
DBSC	11th May
Easterns, NYC	17th, 18th May
RIYC Regatta	25th May
Northerns, Carrickfergus	7th, 8th June
DBSC	15th June
NYC Regatta	21st, 22nd June
DBSC	29th June
R St G Regatta	5th July
DBSC	13th July
DBSC	20th July
Nationals, RCYC	25th, 26th, 27th July
DBSC	10th August
Westerns, Galway	23rd, 24th August
Worlds, Yacht Club Hercules, St Petersburg	7th – 12th September
DBSC	7th September
DBSC	14th September
DBSC	28th September
(TBC) Frostbites, NYC	4th October
Midlands, LDYC	18th, 19th October

The next event is the Primo Cup in early February which, as you will see on the attached notice of Race, is very good value.  Entry at only €75 euro including crew dinners for 4 days racing. Thanks to Kieran Dorgan for the heads up.

Primo Cup 2014, Monaco

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