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Ideal Conditions for First Saturday Races of Dublin Bay Sailing Club's Summer Season

27th April 2024
Dublin Bay Sailing Club committee boat Freebird prepares to start the first Saturday racing of its 2024 summer season for the club's one-design keelboat fleets including Dublin Bay 21s, Beneteau 211s, Dragons, SB20s and Flying Fifteens in the presence of the anchored visiting cruise liner Viking Saturn off Dun Laoghaire
Dublin Bay Sailing Club committee boat Freebird prepares to start the first Saturday racing of its 2024 summer season for the club's one-design keelboat fleets including Dublin Bay 21s, Beneteau 211s, Dragons, SB20s and Flying Fifteens in the presence of the anchored visiting cruise liner Viking Saturn off Dun Laoghaire Credit: Afloat

There were ideal conditions for Dublin Bay Sailing Club's first AIB Saturday race of the 2024 season, on April 25th, in medium north-easterly winds and a classic Dublin Bay chop.

In a ten-boat turnout, J109s took the top three places in IRC One with Tim Goodbody's White Mischief having a ten-second lead on corrected time over second-placed Barry Cunningham's J109 Chimaera, both of the Royal Irish Yacht Club. Third was John Hall's National Yacht Club (NYC) Something Else.

In Cruisers Two IRC, the J97 Windjammer topped a four-boat turnout with the Royal St. George Mustang 30 Peridot in second. Third was the new National Yacht Club Blacksheep (William Despard).

In the one-design fleets, NYC's David Gorman was the winner of both Flying Fifteen races from Alan Green in an 18-boat fleet.

In the seven-boat B211s scratch division, Pat Shannon's Beeswing won from Joe Smyth's Yikes. Third was Ian Bell's Ocean Venture.

Results in all classes below

Summer racing continues on Dublin Bay with Sunday's ISORA 28-mile race from Dun Laoghaire at 11 am.

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.