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Awesome season ahead for these exciting Quarter Tonners on Dublin Bay with the announcement that the famous Enigma, designed by the late great Ed Dubois is joining the fleet this year. If you want to join the fun, get your team together and head over to http://ireland.boatshed.com/quarter_tonner_25-boat-214551.html as Supernova is looking for a new owner and has just been massively reduced for the next 2 weeks only.

Great news from Palma that the Royal Irish duo of Saskia Tidey and Andrea Brewster have qualified for Rio. Incredible achievement !

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What a great morning to be on the water - here's some action from the 45 boat fleet in the final race of The Spring Chicken Series on Dublin Bay.

Team INSS take line honours in great style on Dublin Bay this morning.

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Boatshed Ireland are delighted to bring you some photos of the great camaraderie and crew work evident on Dublin Bay this morning - PRO Henry Leonard set a challenging Z course ... 8 knots with the sun shining - sure beats cutting the grass !

J109 Joker takes Line Honours

John Maybury's J109 'Joker' sailed a faultless race this morning to eventually overhaul the 1720s of Colin Byrne (Lady A) and Ben Cooke (De Ja Vu) in this mornings battle on Dublin Bay.

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Beautiful racing weather for the fleet on Dublin Bay this morning ...

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Spring Chicken Series 28th Feb 2016

Spring Chicken Dublin Bay 2016

Team INSS 1720 skippered by Kenneth Rumball takes line honours in this morning's Spring Chicken Series Week 4 on Dublin Bay.

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Flag N displayed this morning for Week 3 of the Spring Chicken Series on Dublin Bay despite the best efforts of PRO Henry Leonard, event organiser Fintan Cairns and the committee boat team on Freebird. Hoping for better conditions next Sunday.

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Each Sunday, Boatshed Ireland will bring you a racing report and photos from Dublin Bay's 'Spring Chicken' Series 2016. After last week's cancellation, racing got under way this morning in cloudy conditions with an easterly gusting to 30+knots and with some nice waves rolling into the bay. The sleet changed into sunshine and PRO Henry Leonard set a W/L course with a .9 mile beat into a flooding tide for the 28 boat fleet. With some 1720's setting fractional kites downwind and surfing on the 2m waves, there were the inevitable 'chinese' gybes and difficulties encountered. At the start of Round 3 the committee vessel 'Freebird' was required to leave station to take a competitor, the 'Lady A' in tow before a potential beaching not far from Seapoint. The Royal Irish YC 1720 had experienced a man over board whilst wrapping their spinnaker around the masthead and could not sail off the lee-shore. Thank you to the RNLI offshore vessel for standing by during the operation, and kudos to Freebird's regular driver Brendan who handled the committee boat expertly in the breaking surf to engage the tow. All ended well, and the call from the organisers asked for finishers to record their own times in the absence of a finishing vessel. 'Honesty' results may be published mid-week and we will keep you updated. Lots of photos and a full report next Sunday on the Boatshed Ireland FB page and also on the Boatshed Blog on www.boatshedireland.com

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