Dublin Bay Sailing Club organisers expect its 2022 Turkey Shoot Series fleet to match last year's bumper fleet of 75 boats when racing begins next week.
DBSC has received 45 entries to date, with several new designs and boats to the capital's waters expected to debut for the first race on Sunday, November 6th.
"Entries to date are on a par with what we received at this time last year, so I'm hopeful we will have a great fleet once again when we start next week", Turkey Shoot boss Fintan Cairns told Afloat.
"It would be of great help in working out handicaps and starts to get the rest of the entries in now", he added.
Kenny Rumball will sail in the new RS21 keelboat, and a new First Class 8 class campaign is also expected to appear in the 'all-in' fleet that includes five J80s and three 1720s to date.
A large fleet of Class Zero boats – including Chris Power-Smith's offshore J122 Aurelia – means a fifth start as per the 2021 series is anticipated.
Travelling from the west coast for the short and sharp morning racing that promises to have everyone ashore by lunchtime is Turkey Shoot regular from Sligo, Sean Hawkshaw, in his Sigma Wardance.
Now in its 22nd year, the AIB-sponsored seven-race series will be hosted by the Royal Irish Yacht Club at Dun Laoghaire Harbour.
As regular Afloat readers will know, the white-sailed Elan 333 White Lotus was the overall winner of the 21st edition.
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