The Irish Fireball Frostbite Series, hosted and organized by the Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club, closed in glorious sunshine conditions on 25^th March with two races outside the harbour. On the first day of official summer-time, when the clocks in Ireland (and the UK) went forward by an hour, a 17-boat fleet enjoyed near-perfect conditions and a 15knot breeze in sailing the last two races of a series that had started in the dark days of October past.

In contrast to the winter of 2010/11 when we had snow early in December, through Christmas and well into January, if not later, the fleet enjoyed sunshine conditions on some days, very mild conditions on lots of days and sailed all the races planned, though an element of catch-up was achieved by sailing two races on some days when strong wind or the lack of wind (one Sunday) caused races to be cancelled.

In total, 20 races were sailed in two separate Series - pre-Christmas & post Christmas, with 5 discards applying to the overall combined series. In the second Series, sailed since January, a total of 12 races were sailed with 3 discards counted.

DMYC Frostbites, Series 2 Overall. [12 races, 3 Discards.]
1	Noel Butler & Stephen Oram	15061	National Yacht Club & Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club	13pts
2	Kenny Rumball & Dave Moran	15058	Irish National Sailing Club	14pts
3	Neil Colin & Margaret Casey	14775	Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club	45pts
4	Owen Laverty & Ed Butler	14990	Royal St. George Yacht Club	49pts
5	Alistair Court & Gordon Syme	14706	Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club	49pts
6	Neil Spain/John Chambers & Hugh Butler	14807	Royal St. George Yacht Club	51pts
7	Andy Boyle & Barry Hurley	14934	Royal Irish Yacht Club	63pts
8	Louise McKenna & Hermine O'Keefe	14691	Royal St. George Yacht Club	74pts
9	Louis Smyth & Joe O'Reilly/ Cormac Bradley	15007	Coal Harbour	77pts
10	Cariosa Power & Marie Barry	14854	National Yacht Club & Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club.	94pts

DMYC Frostbites, Series 1 & 2 Overall [20 Races, 5 Discards.]
1	Noel Butler & Stephen Oram	15061	National Yacht Club & Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club	20pts
2	Kenny Rumball & Dave Moran	15058	Irish National Sailing Club	24pts
3	Neil Spain/John Chambers & Hugh Butler	14807	Royal St. George Yacht Club	69pts
4	Andy Boyle & Barry Hurley	14934	Royal Irish Yacht Club	73pts
5	Neil Colin & Margaret Casey	14775	Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club	76pts
6	Alistair Court & Gordon Syme	14706	Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club	80pts
7	Louis Smyth & Joe O'Reilly/ Cormac Bradley	15007	Coal Harbour	107pts
8	Louise McKenna & Hermine O'Keefe	14691	Royal St. George Yacht Club	109pts
9	Luke Malcolm & Shane Divinney	14790	Howth Yacht Club	160pts
10	Mick Creighton & Paul McDermott/ Ciaran Hickey	14937	Irish Sailing Association	161pts

Prizes for the 2^nd Series and the Overall series were awarded post-racing in the DMYC Clubhouse where thoughts turned to the regatta season which has its first official fixture in May (19^th & 20^th), but is preceded by two separate training sessions in April, Silver Fleet Training in Clontarf Yacht & Boat Club on Dublin's northside (April 28^th) and an Adam Bowers weekend, hosted by DMYC over the preceding weekend, April 21/22.