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Royal St. George's Jimmy Fischer's Billy Whizz was the winner of Saturday's scratch Race 17 in the Beneteau 211 class of the AIB DBSC Summer Series on Dublin Bay.

Joe Smyth's Yikes from the Royal Irish took second, with Pat Shannon's Beeswing in third place in medium southerly winds on the Bay. 

Overall, Fischer continues to lead the ten-boat DBSC fleet on 12 points from Smyth, with Andrew Bradley's Chinook, also from the RIYC, in third place.

Results from all DBSC classes are below.

 

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Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) yacht racing was cancelled on the Bay this evening despite decent sailing breeze.

A heavy sea mist brought visibility down to less than 100 metres this afternoon, forcing DBSC Race officers to fly 'N over A' as visibility became very poor at Dun Laoghaire Harbour and across the Bay.

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DBSC Water Wag Race Officer Harry Gallagher set a windward/leeward course of three rounds in a WNW wind, initially gusting 16 knots, then dropping to an average of eight knots.

Twenty-three boats started, and Seán Craig, the weekend winner of the GP Munster Championships on Tralee Bay, maintained his current form and led from the start, tacking on to port on the gun and clearing the fleet.

Results were:
1. No. 52 Puffin, Seán & Heather Craig
2. No. 38 Swift, Guy & Jackie Kilroy
3. No. 15 Moosmie, John O’Driscoll & Shirley Gilmore

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Leslie Parnell's First 34.7, Black Velvet was the winner of Thursday night's (June 15th) Class Two IRC AIB DBSC Summer Series racing on Dublin Bay.

The Royal Irish yacht finished 4 seconds ahead on corrected time over Brendan Foley's First 8, Allig8r from the Royal St. George.

Third in the eight-boat race was Foely's clubmate Dick Lovegrove's Sigma 33, Rupert.

After eight races sailed in the series, 1 Lindsay Casey's J97 Windjammer leads but on the same eight points as Allig8r, with Black Velvet third on 11.

Full results in all classes below

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Dublin Bay Sailing Club Race Officer Tadgh Donnelly set a three-round windward/leeward course for the first of two DBSC Water Wag races on Wednesday evening, June 14th.

The conditions in Dun Laoghaire Harbour were warm and sunny in a light ESE 3-5kt breeze.

The race officer shortened the race at the weather mark in the third round.

Water Wag spinnakers barely filling in the ESE 3-5kt breeze at Dun Laoghaire Harbour Photo: Ann KirwanWater Wag spinnakers barely filling in the ESE 3-5kt breeze at Dun Laoghaire Harbour Photo: Ann Kirwan

Results: 
1. No. 52 Puffin, Seán & Heather Craig
2. No. 47 Peggy, David & Patricia Corcoran
3. No. 38 Swift, Guy Kilroy and crew

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None of Dublin Bay Sailing Club's (DBSC) 22 racing classes managed to race on Saturday, June 11, due to light and variable easterly winds on Dublin Bay.

Race Officers put the fleets to sea but later were forced to cancel due to insufficient breeze.

Racing continues next week. The overall results are below.

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Michael Cutliffe's Ruffles was the winner of Thursday night's (June 7th) Ruffian 23 class AIB DBSC Summer Series racing on Dublin Bay.

A day of strong winds gave way to another light easterly wind on the Bay for evening racing.

The DMYC yacht finished ahead of Ann Kirwan's Bandit from the National Yacht Club. Third in the five-boat race was David Meeke's Alias.

After seven races sailed in the series, Ruffles leads on 4 points from Stephen Gill's Shannagh on 8, with Brendan Duffy's Carmen in third place on 11.

Full results in all DBSC classes below.

Meanwhile, the Irish Ruffian 23 will celebrate its Golden Jubilee at Portaferry Sailing Club in Northern Ireland from June 15th, as Afloat reports here.

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Dublin Bay Sailing Club Race Officer Tadgh Donnelly set a three-round windward/leeward course for the first of two DBSC Water Wag races on Wednesday evening, June 7th.

After two general recalls, he got the 24-boat fleet away under a black flag.

The wind in Dun Laoghaire harbour was ENE 10-12kts.

Results race 1:
1. No. 52 Puffin, Seán & Heather Craig
2. No. 41 Mollie, Claudine & Annalise Murphy
3. No. 15 Moosmie, John O’Driscoll & Sarah Dwyer

The Race Officer set a second race of two rounds.

Results of race 2:
1. No. 41 Mollie, Claudine & Annalise Murphy
2. No. 45 Mariposa, Cathy MacAleavey & Con Murphy
3. No. 42 Tortoise, William & Laura Prentice

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Overall leader Chris Johnston, skipper of the Beneteau 31.7, Prospect, took the gun in Saturday's light air race in Dublin Bay Sailing Club's AIB Summer Series.

The scratch win was in a six-boat fleet with National Yacht Club clubmate John Power in Levante second. Eoin O’Driscoll's Kernach was third.

Royal Irish's Colin Byrne in the XP33 Bon Exemple continued his winning run in the IRC One division, with a tie for second place between the Fintan Cairns's Mills 30 Raptor and John Hall's J109 Something Else. Tim Goodbody's J109 White Mischief placed fourth in a nine-boat turnout. 

Full DBSC results in all classes are below

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Brendan Foley's First 8 'Allig8r' was the winner of Thursday night's (June 1st) Class Two IRC AIB DBSC Summer Series racing on Dublin Bay.

The light south-easterly winds that prevailed on the Bay in May are continuing into June.

The Royal St. George yacht finished 40 seconds on corrected time ahead of Lindsay Casey's J97 Windjammer from the same club. Third in the nine-boat race was Leslie Parnell's First 34.7, Black Velvet.

After six races sailed in the series, 1 Windjammer leads on 5 points from Black Velvet on 10, with Allig8r third on 15.

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Galway Port & Harbour

Galway Bay is a large bay on the west coast of Ireland, between County Galway in the province of Connacht to the north and the Burren in County Clare in the province of Munster to the south. Galway city and port is located on the northeast side of the bay. The bay is about 50 kilometres (31 miles) long and from 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) to 30 kilometres (19 miles) in breadth.

The Aran Islands are to the west across the entrance and there are numerous small islands within the bay.

Galway Port FAQs

Galway was founded in the 13th century by the de Burgo family, and became an important seaport with sailing ships bearing wine imports and exports of fish, hides and wool.

Not as old as previously thought. Galway bay was once a series of lagoons, known as Loch Lurgan, plied by people in log canoes. Ancient tree stumps exposed by storms in 2010 have been dated back about 7,500 years.

It is about 660,000 tonnes as it is a tidal port.

Capt Brian Sheridan, who succeeded his late father, Capt Frank Sheridan

The dock gates open approximately two hours before high water and close at high water subject to ship movements on each tide.

The typical ship sizes are in the region of 4,000 to 6,000 tonnes

Turbines for about 14 wind projects have been imported in recent years, but the tonnage of these cargoes is light. A European industry report calculates that each turbine generates €10 million in locally generated revenue during construction and logistics/transport.

Yes, Iceland has selected Galway as European landing location for international telecommunications cables. Farice, a company wholly owned by the Icelandic Government, currently owns and operates two submarine cables linking Iceland to Northern Europe.

It is "very much a live project", Harbourmaster Capt Sheridan says, and the Port of Galway board is "awaiting the outcome of a Bord Pleanála determination", he says.

90% of the scrap steel is exported to Spain with the balance being shipped to Portugal. Since the pandemic, scrap steel is shipped to the Liverpool where it is either transhipped to larger ships bound for China.

It might look like silage, but in fact, its bales domestic and municipal waste, exported to Denmark where the waste is incinerated, and the heat is used in district heating of homes and schools. It is called RDF or Refuse Derived Fuel and has been exported out of Galway since 2013.

The new ferry is arriving at Galway Bay onboard the cargo ship SVENJA. The vessel is currently on passage to Belem, Brazil before making her way across the Atlantic to Galway.

Two Volvo round world races have selected Galway for the prestigious yacht race route. Some 10,000 people welcomed the boats in during its first stopover in 2009, when a festival was marked by stunning weather. It was also selected for the race finish in 2012. The Volvo has changed its name and is now known as the "Ocean Race". Capt Sheridan says that once port expansion and the re-urbanisation of the docklands is complete, the port will welcome the "ocean race, Clipper race, Tall Ships race, Small Ships Regatta and maybe the America's Cup right into the city centre...".

The pandemic was the reason why Seafest did not go ahead in Cork in 2020. Galway will welcome Seafest back after it calls to Waterford and Limerick, thus having been to all the Port cities.

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