2025 Annual Junior Laying Up Supper

The Annual Junior Laying Up and Frostbite Series Prizegiving was held in the Clubhouse last  Sunday 8^th December.  It is a great occasion every year for our junior members to get together and celebrate all of our very talented young sailors across all of our Dinghy  Classes. The  Frank Thompson Memorial Trophy for The Junior Volunteer of the Year was also awarded and of course the much coveted Pyewacket Trophy which is awarded on performance.

With the room at full capacity and  with a lot of trophies to be handed out proceedings got quickly underway with the Frostbite Prizes up first. 1^st in ILCA 4 was Craig O’Neill followed very closely by his younger brother in 2^nd place. In ILCA 6 1^st place went to Sophie Crosbie with Philip Doherty in 2^nd place. In the Mixed Dinghy Fleet we had Oisin Pierce and Fionn Daly in their 29er FX and in 2^nd place we had Isha Duggan and Tommy Hiras from the 420 class. And finally in  the ILCA 7 fleet, 1^st place went to Johnathan O’Shaughnessy and 2^nd Place to Sean O’Herlihy.

Each Class Captain then gave a very informative review of the season past and plans for 2025. The Most Improved Sailor and Sailor of the Year was then awarded in each class, they are as follows :-

Optimist Class  

Dougie Venner – Overall Sailor of the Year

Topper Class 

Kate Deane – Topper Sailor of the Year

Oliver Sugar – Most Improved 

ILCA Class

 Andrew Kingston –  ILCA Sailor of the Year

Rachel Hyde – Most Improved

Feva Class

Charlie Spillane & Ryan O’Connell – Feva Sailors of the Year

Jenny O’Connor & Aisling O’Connor – Most Improved

      420 Class

Isha Duggan & Tommy Hiras – 420 Sailors of the Year

Billy Malin – Most Improved 

29er Class

Oisin Pierse & Fionn Daly – 29er Sailors of the Year 

Next up was the Frank Thompson Memorial Trophy which is awarded to recognise the outstanding volunteer efforts by a Family to RCYC Dinghy Sailing. This award went to Dana Swanton and Ronan Duggan much to the delight of the room. Dana and Ronan are always first up to volunteer to help out be it on the water with safety or ashore as beachmaster and helping with results. Congratulations to you both, very well deserved.

The final award of the night was the much coveted Pyewacket Trophy. The list of Nominees was as follows :- 

Dougie Venner – Optimist Class

Andrew Kingston – ILCA Class

Isha Duggan & Tommy Hiras – 420 Class

Oisin Pierse & Fionn Daly – 29er Class

Lucia Cullen & Alana Twomey – 29er Class

The Pyewacket Trophy presented by our Admiral was awarded to Lucia & Alana following on from their very impressive 4^th place finish at the 29er Europeans earlier in the year in Poland.

A big thank you to Tom Mapplebeck for his organsation of all the coaching throughout the year and for putting the slide show together. 

As always, a massive thank you goes to Bob Bateman for the fabulous photographs. 

Well done to each and every one of our sailors. Thank you to Anne, Amy and all the staff for looking after us on the night and throughout the year. See you all in 2025

All photos on the Club gallery here

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