Our fortnightly talks continued last Wednesday (Jan 17th) with an well attended presentation by Liam Dinneen and Helen Ryan on Race Management. Lots of lively discussion on the how’s of conducting races in Skerries bay under many adverse conditions that can occur. The Talks continue as scheduled below.
Look forward to seeing you there. Talks start at 8.30pm in the club. Bring a friend.
SSC are please to invite both members and non members to our winter talks. Next talk tells the story of Harry Callan’s incarceration during WWII and his experiences. Come along and learn more. See the newsletter for updates. The remaining three talks before Christmas at detailed below. They are on every second Wednesday evening starting at 8.30pm. Please come along and bring a friend or two. There is no charge! click on image below.
On Saturday 30th September last 4 wayfarers left SSC lead by Gerry Byrne and sailed to a great welcome in Rush SC. This was just another expedition arranged by Gerry for our new members group. We were very received by Rush who provided a very welcome mid day meal prepared by Jonathan Mason and his team. Thanks to RSC Commodore Brenda McGuinness for a warm welcome which we hope to reciprocate nest season.
This is a higher definition version of the Rush Just Sailing trip posted earlier. For the technically minded it's a MPEG4 using HD1080p presets although what it has become after being recoded by Facebook is anybody's guess.
Posted by Just Sailing at Skerries Sailing Club on Tuesday, 3 October 2017
Well done to all the Cup winners as below. Trophies will be presented at the Laying up Supper on November 11th next. Click on image below to see.
Last week’s event in our club was one of the most successful events undertaken in the past two years. The National Mermaid Championships 2017 went off without a hitch. 10 races were planned and 10 races plus I crews race were executed on time through the week. The competition in excellent sailing conditions went down to the wire. We congratulate our own Sam Shiels and his crew Con Bissett and Eoin Boylan in 189 on their retention of the their title as Mermaid Champions and winning the handsome “Lady” trophy. We also congratulate Paul Browne and his crew of Brendan Dunne and Jennifer Shiels in 146 for winning the Designers Cup and also Conor and Martin O’Toole in 179 for their third place in the Daphne Cup. Well done to Frankie Brown Jr for winning a very competitive crews race on the Tuesday. Definitely a very successful week all round for Skerries sailors.
(Photos courtesy of Michael O’Connor)
26 boats from 6 clubs – Foynes YC, National YC, Royal Irish YC, Clontarf Y&BC, Rush SC and Skerries SC – competed making this one of the largest single class sailing events held in Irish waters this year. Competitors were full of praise for the organisation and management of both on and off the water activities. Hugh organisation and planning in advance was undertaken, combined with excellent execution over the week to make this a successful event. Thanks also to our main Sponsors – Bacharach and Sail Alarms – and the many Skerries businesses listed in the brochure who sponsored prizes on the various nights.
Special praise must go to Brian McNally, SSC Mermaid class captain, and his team including Susan Roundtree, Valerie Cronin and Ross Galbraith. Brian and his team were planning this event over a year ago and their hard work paid off – even the weather played its part. Our experienced Race officers of Liam Dineen, Micheline Shiels and Helen Ryan executed flawlessly producing some great races that enabled the competitions to go right down to the last day. Well done. Thanks to our many Rescue/Mark laying support team members throughout the week – Colm Collins, Jim Boylan, Neil Cramer, Tom Adams, Laurence Breen, Jim Dowling, Paul Hick, David Cooke, Liam O’Callaghan, Richie Ferguson, Eugene Osbourne, Andrew Thornton, Olive Parker, Noel Lappin, and the many Junior drivers, the safety officers Stan Pyke, Ronnie Horan and Liam McMahon and our punt men Conor, Ben and Sean who also helped on shore. Our thanks to Michael O’Connor for his brilliant photos which even featured in Afloat – see http://afloat.ie/sail/sailing-classes/mermaids/item/36818-two-past-champions. Apologies if I left out others.
Off the water Kathryn Collins and her team with Donal Lynam our Club Manager did a great job on catering both early morning, mid-afternoon and then with the various functions in the evening. Thanks to Colm Collins for sponsoring the coffee. Well done to Con Bissett and Maria Browne on securing the many special prizes for the various nights and Carol Maxwell for maintaining our event Facebook page. And also to our race Office team of Graine Mc Grotty, Susan Roundtree, Valerie Cronin, Monica Alcock and Siobhan Boylan for keeping us in good order.
Apologies if I missed anybody. It was truly a great undertaking by a great many people resulting in a great event. Thank you to one and all.
Commodore.
Our Annual SSC Regatta was held this year on July 15th and 16th including the Howth to Skerries cruiser race for the Rockabill Cup. This year we are joined by the Fireballs who were completing their Leinster event. All results below:-
Press Release – Mermaids – http://afloat.ie/sail/sailing-classes/mermaids/item/36602-mermaids-get-a-great-warm-up-at-skerries-regatta
Photos thanks to Susan Roundtree.
Trophies
Congratulations to:
Congratulations to Brian McNally and his crew on winning one of our oldest trophy the Admiral’s Hat. This trophy has been in the club and its exact history is a little cloudy. If you have any information on this prized possession please let us know. In the meantime it is in good hands or head…
Seen here below is the presentation by Gerry Byrne to Brian on Sunday morning June 18th last.
Update – Thanks to Michael Johnson our weather station is up and running again. Unfortunately the wind station is currently under repair and the data displayed on the right hand side of each page is out of date. We hope to rectify as soon as a replacement aerial is obtained.
Congratulations to Doire Shiels (GP 14054) who won the Lifeboat Pennant last Sunday morning (May 14th) despite stiff competition from Cathal Sheridan (GP 14074). Doire is seen here being presented with his trophy by his mother (and Race Officer) Micheline Shiels.
First dinghy race of the 2017 Sailing Season for the Paddy Hand Trophy was won by John Fitzgerald in his laser by 47 seconds (corrected time) from Cathal Sheridan and David Cooke in their GP14. Congratulations John!
Full results as
