Dublin Bay Sailing Club Race Officer Tadgh Donnelly set a windward/leeward course of three rounds for the DBSC Water Wag race on (Wednesday evening, May 24th) at Dun Laoghaire Harbour.

20 boats competed in an 8-10kt NNW breeze but only after a delay of approximately 15 minutes due to cruise ship tender operations in the harbour.

Six boats were over the line at the start, with all bar one of them failing to return.

The results were:

1. No. 15 Moosmie, John O’Driscoll
2. No. 52 Puffin, Seán Craig
3. No. 47 Peggy, David Corcoran

Shirley Gilmore emerged the ILCA 6 Radial winner in last night's single DBSC Dinghy race on Scotsman's Bay, to the east of Dun Laoghaire Harbour.

After last Tuesday's cancellation, May 23rd's light but sunny conditions produced a fine turnout of dinghies for race nine of the AIB Summer series.

Royal St George's Gilmore was followed home by clubmate Marc Coakley with the National Yacht Club's Daniel Raymond in third in the 14-boat fleet.

Full results for all dinghy classes below

None of Dublin Bay Sailing Club's (DBSC) 22 racing classes managed to race on Saturday, May 21, due to a glassy calm on Dublin Bay.

Race Officers flew N/A at 1300 hours.

Racing continues next week. Overall results are below.

The National Yacht Club's Michelle Farrell scored a win in IRC Zero in the First 40.7 Tsunami in last night's (May 18th) AIB sponsored DBSC Summer Race Programme that was curtailed by patchy, light winds. 

There were three finishers in the five-boat IRC Zero race, with Tim Kane's X-Treme 37 WOW in second and Sean Lemass's First 40 Prima Forte in third place.

There were four finishers in the 11-boat two-hour IRC One race with Colin Byrne's XP33 Bon Exemple in first, followed by the J109s Ruth (Ben Shanahan) and Tim Goodbody's White Mischief.

According to DBSC results (below) there were no IRC Two or Three division finishers. 

Dublin Bay Sailing Club Race Officer Tadgh Donnelly set a windward/leeward course of four rounds for the DBSC Water Wag handicap race on Wednesday evening at Dun Laoghaire Harbour.

18 boats competed over eight staggered starts in a light SSE breeze before it shifted to a WSW direction after the first round.

The results were:

1. No. 14 Phillis, Fraser Mitchell
2. No. 52 Puffin, Seán Craig
3. No. 21 Jacqueline, Hugh Delap

Six SB20s competed in Saturday's (May 13th) two AIB-Sponsored DBSC summer series racing on Dublin Bay. 

Royal Irish entry Richard Hayes in Carpe Diem was the first race winner from clubmate Ger Dempsey's Venuesworld, but this order was reversed for the second race of the day under Race Officer John McNeilly.

After six races sailed, Hayes leads overall (with five wins) and must be considered a form boat for next weekend's class East Coast Championships at the Royal St George Yacht Club, where 15 SB20s are expected to race.

Full DBSC results across all classes are below

The Sailors of Dublin Bay 21s committee have announced further details of the membership structure ahead of the upcoming inaugural season.

Weather permitting, the plan is to launch the fleet comprising Naneen, Estelle, Geraldine and Garavogue in mid-May, pending the completion of final works on the boats, and racing will commence as soon as possible thereafter.

As previously reported on Afloat.ie, racing will be on Tuesdays and Saturdays from the National Yacht Club in Dun Laoghaire with the DBSC fleet.

Based on feedback from interested racers, the committee identified various levels of interest and experience, from skippers crew and regular sailors to occasional sailors and shore supporters.

The committee therefore proposed the following membership structure:

• Annual Membership €50: become part of the Dublin Bay 21 family, receive regular updates on the restoration project and be entitled to one sailing experience per season on a 21 boat.

In addition to the membership subscription, crewing participation is available to purchase as follows:

• Regular season crew: be part of the regular crew for the boats throughout the sailing season for €450 (total €500)
• Occasional season crew: partake in up to six crewing opportunities on the boats throughout the sailing season for €200 (total €250)

Crews will be allocated their preferred dates where possible depending on overall demand for an individual slot.

The committee says they are currently finalising the booking process and a secure online payment system along with the membership application form with an update on this to come shortly.

For more information contact Sean Doyle at [email protected] or 086 232 6636.

Lindsay Casey's J97 Windjammer took the gun in Cruisers Two IRC in the third Thursday race of Dublin Bay Sailing Club's 2023 summer series on May 11th.

In a good class turnout of seven boats, the Royal St. George crew beat clubmates Brendan Foley on the First Class 8, Allig8r. Leslie Parnell, sailing the First 34.7 Black Velvet from the Royal Irish, was third.

The Race Officer was Commodore Eddie Totterdell, who ran a one-and-a-half hour race in a sub-10 knot north-easterly breeze off Dun Laoghaire Harbour, quite a contrast to the previous Thursday when strong winds and big waves scrubbed all racing.

On the one design course, Jerry Dowling's Bád/Kilcullen from the Royal Irish Yacht Club was the SB20 Race winner. The sportsboat one design class had a turnout of 7, with Dowling's clubmate Ger Dempsey second in Venuesworld and Barry Glavin's Seabiscuit third.

Full results (with corrected times for IRC classes) in all DBSC classes below

Timothy Goodbody's J109 White Mischief was the winner of the second Saturday race of the DBSC AIB summer sailing season in a fine 12-boat turnout in Cruisers IRC One.

Race Officer Barry MacNeaney, who officiated at 0800 hours for the first ISORA Cross channel race from Dun Laoghaire to Pwllheli, was back on duty on Saturday afternoon for the DBSC Cruiser fleets

Winds were ten knots from the southeast with a chop on Dublin Bay.

Second in IRC One was Goodbody's Royal Irish clubmate Colin Byrne in the XP33 Bon Exemple. Third was John Hall's J109 Something Else from the National Yacht Club.

Results in all DBSC classes below

Big seas and strong easterly winds at Dun Laoghaire Harbour caused the cancellation of tonight's Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) cruiser racing and one design keelboat racing.