19 Enter (and a Dozen in the Wings) for Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race

19th May 2011

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19 Enter (and a Dozen in the Wings) for Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race

Offshore racers Jedi, Aquelina and at least five J yacht designs – including George Sisk's new J111, Wow – are entered for next month's Dun Laoghaire to Dingle offshore sailing race (D2D) from the National Yacht Club in Dun Laoghaire on June 11.

The last D2D race in June 2009 attracted 39 entries and a course record was set by Michael Cotter's Whisper. This year, organisers Martin Crotty and Brian Barry along with Dingle Harbour master Brian Farrell remain confident that they will break the 40 boat barrier. They may well be right as the event has been specifically timed to bring Dublin boats to the south coast for ten days of racing at the ICRA Nationals in Cork Harbour and the Sovereigns Cup the following week in Kinsale.

The event is also benefitting from inclusion in this year's ISORA calendar.

With just under a month to the start of the race 19 boats are officially entered (see table below) for the 320-miler but the National's Olivier Proveur says the club also expects the following: Tsunami (Beneteau 40.7 – Vincent Farrell), Quite Correct (Beneteau 54DS – John Roberts), Class 40 (Alan McGettigan), English Mick, Sailing West Intuition, Raging Bull (Sigma 400), Legally Brunette, Saxon Senator and Dublin Bay yacht Tiamat may also enter.

Full entry list below at May 19th:

Spindrift	HR34	David Kelly
Dinah	JOD35	Barry Hurley
Powder Monkey	J109	Chris Moore
Lula Belle	Beneteau 36.7	Liam Coyne
Orna	Grand Soleil	Philip Dilworth
Aquelina	J122	Sheila/James Tyrrell
Ocean Blue	Pacific Seacraft 42	Francis Cassidy
Wow	J 111	George Sisk
Emir Herr	Beneteau 47.3	Liam Shanahan
Something Else	J109	John Hall
Premier Cru	Beneteau 50	Alan Jackson
Lisador	Dehler 36	Henry Hogg
Jedi	J109	Andrew Sarratt
Galway Harbour	Reflex 38	Martin Breen
Betty Boop	Puppeteer 330S	John Alvey
Tom Crean	SJ320	Yannick Lemonnier
Mojito	Bavaria 39	Peter Dunlop
Fortuna Redux	Fast 42	Steve Kershaw
Yahtzee	Beneteau 411	Richard Mossop

Published in Dun Laoghaire Dingle

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Track the progress of the 2023 Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Yacht Race fleet on the live tracker above and the leaderboard below

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The 16th edition of the 280-mile race organised by the National Yacht Club starts at 2 pm on Wednesday, June 7th, on Dublin Bay.

Read the full 2023 race preview by WM Nixon here
Read all the D2D Race News in one handy link here
Listen to Lorna Siggins's interview with Race Chairman Adam Winkelmann on Afloat's Wavelengths here

WM Nixon will be posting regular race updates and analysis throughout the 2023 race here

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Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Yacht Race Information

The biennial Dun Laoghaire to Dingle race is a 320-miles race down to the east coast of Ireland, across the south coast and into Dingle harbour in County Kerry.

The race is organised by the National Yacht Club.

It never fails to offer a full range of weather, wind and tide to the intrepid entrants, ranging from a 32ft cruiser to a 79ft all-out racer.

Three divisions are available to enter: cruiser (boats equipped with furlers), racing (the bulk of the fleet) and also two-handed.

D2D Course change overruled

In 2019, the organisers considered changing the course to allow boats to select routes close to shore by removing the requirement to go outside Islands and Lighthouses en route, but following input from regular participants, the National Yacht Club decided to stick with the tried and tested course route in order to be fair to large and smaller boats and to keep race records intact.

D2D Course record time

Mick Cotter’s 78ft Whisper established the 1 day and 48 minutes course record for the Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race in 2009 and that time stood until 2019 when Cotter returned to beat his own record but only just, the Dun Laoghaire helmsman crossing the line in Kerry to shave just 20 seconds off his 2009 time.