The restored Dublin Bay 21 vintage one-design wooden yacht fleet is sitting pretty this season on new moorings off the bandstand at Dun Laoghaire's East Pier.
The newly laid dedicated trot of seven moorings will give the Edwardian fleet a prominent home for the 2024 season.
Seven of the craft were built between 1903 and 1906, and the rebuilt boats, after an extensive restoration project undertaken by Hal Sisk, form the nucleus of a reborn class in Dublin Bay.
In 2021, the boats were welcomed back to the Bay with a special DBSC gun salute from committee boat Mac Lir and are now regularly racing again.
Three of the restored fleet, Naneen (yellow), Geraldine (white) and Estelle (blue), were on their new moorings for the weekend of April 13th when the annual lift-in of boats signalled the start of Dun Laoghaire's 2024 summer sailing season.