There are busy scenes at Dun Laoghaire Harbour this Thursday, April 25th as the second cruise liner of the 2024 season berthed off the harbour in Scotsman's Bay.
Passengers disembarked from the 330-metre Regal Princess just after 7 am at the new tender pontoon at the harbour's number three berth in front of the Royal St. George Yacht Club.
The visit follows Tuesday's arrival of the much smaller Viking Venus at 220-metres, marking the start of the town's cruise season, which will see 80 ships between April and October.
Making use of the new recently installed ship fendering at the number two berth on the Carlisle Pier adjacent to the National Yacht Club was the Bahamas-flagged 41-metre Research/Survey Vessel Fugro Helmert, having arrived from Swansea in Wales.
Yacht Racing
Following last night's in-harbour 22-boat Water Wag race, Thursday evening (where light winds are expected) marks the start of the 2024 Dublin Bay Sailing Club Cruiser-racer season from Dun Laoghaire. A full programme of racing planned around an upgraded set of buoys now laid in the bay for the club's 140th anniversary season.
The visiting superyacht Sorceress, moored at a deepwater berth at Dun Laoghaire Marina, is almost three times the size of any competing DBSC cruiser, and the Marshall Island flagged yacht makes her presence felt with a black mast that towers over the 800-berth facility.
Much of the activity is viewable on three Dublin Bay webcams