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DBSC Pays Tributes to Ida Kiernan in Saturday Racing on Dublin Bay

10th September 2022
The DBSC West Pier Race Hut displaying a tribute to club race management official, the late Ida Kiernan. A one-minute silence was observed by the DBSC Saturday fleet ahead of racing  in memory of the first Lady Commodore of the National Yacht Club
The DBSC West Pier Race Hut displaying a tribute to club race management official, the late Ida Kiernan. A one-minute silence was observed by the DBSC Saturday fleet ahead of racing in memory of the first Lady Commodore of the National Yacht Club Credit: Jim Dolan

Barry Cunningham's Blast was the winner of a five-boat IRC Zero DBSC Saturday race on Dublin Bay.

The new Cape 31 beat Royal Irish clubmate Patrick Burke's First 40 Prima Forte. Third was the First 40 Tsunami from the National Yacht Club.

Race 16 was run by race officer Tim Costello; the wind was easterly at eight knots.

In a tribute to club race management official, the late Ida Kiernan, a one-minute silence was observed by the DBSC Saturday fleet at 13.59 ahead of racing in memory of the first Lady Commodore of the National Yacht Club.

Tim Goodbody's J109 White Mischief from the RIYC beat the NYC's A35 Gringo skippered by Tony Fox in an eight-boat IRC One fleet. Third was Fox's clubmate, Paul Barrington, in the J109 Jalapeno.

IRC Two was won by James McCann's Mustang 30 Peridot from 1 Lindsay J. Casey's J97 Windjammer. Third was Dick Lovegrove's Sigma 33 Rupert. Five boats competed.

Last Wednesday's Water Wag RNLI Lifeboat Pennant Race was won by Drewery Pearson in Alf. The handicap race had staggered start times (nine starts). Race Officer Harry Gallagher set a 3-round race (4 beats) in a SE wind of 12-18 kts. All wags raced with reefed mains.

Results across all DBSC classes are below.

Race Results

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Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) is one of Europe's biggest yacht racing clubs. It has almost sixteen hundred elected members. It presents more than 100 perpetual trophies each season some dating back to 1884. It provides weekly racing for upwards of 360 yachts, ranging from ocean-going forty footers to small dinghies for juniors.

Undaunted by austerity and encircling gloom, Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC), supported by an institutional memory of one hundred and twenty-nine years of racing and having survived two world wars, a civil war and not to mention the nineteen-thirties depression, it continues to present its racing programme year after year as a cherished Dublin sporting institution.

The DBSC formula that, over the years, has worked very well for Dun Laoghaire sailors. As ever DBSC start racing at the end of April and finish at the end of September. The current commodore is Eddie Totterdell of the National Yacht Club.

The character of racing remains broadly the same in recent times, with starts and finishes at Club's two committee boats, one of them DBSC's new flagship, the Freebird. The latter will also service dinghy racing on Tuesdays and Saturdays. Having more in the way of creature comfort than the John T. Biggs, it has enabled the dinghy sub-committee to attract a regular team to manage its races, very much as happened in the case of MacLir and more recently with the Spirit of the Irish. The expectation is that this will raise the quality of dinghy race management, which, operating as it did on a class quota system, had tended to suffer from a lack of continuity.