Masterful Murphys Win Wednesday's Melges 15 Racing at Dun Laoghaire Harbour

Father and son Ronan and Jacques Murphy showed that consistency pays with a string of second places, leaving them with the lowest points for the second night of Melges 15 racing on Dublin Bay.

Six short windward-leeward races were sailed in the gentlest breezes parallel to the Dun Laoghaire Marina pier, with Race Officer Liam Glynn keeping the races running.

The new Melges 15 fleet shared Dun Laoghaire Harbour with the Water Wag class for Wednesday night racing

Husband and wife Theo and Clodagh Lyttle from the Royal St. George Yacht Club used their spinnaker trimming skills learned at the sharp end of the Laser Two fleet many moons ago to consistently gain places off the wind.

Light wind racing for the Dublin Bay Melges 15 fleet

Theo, the current 'Top Gun' of the M15 fleet with the highest recorded boat speed of 14.5 knots, demonstrated that he is fast, it seems, in all conditions.