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Tide Dictates Tactics for Dublin Bay Cruisers

6th August 2011
Tide Dictates Tactics for Dublin Bay Cruisers

George Sisk's J111 WOW led a tightly packed bunch of cruisers in to Scotsman's Bay to escape the flood tide after the start of this afternoon's Dublin Port sponsored Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) race. It was a tactic that worked for the Royal Irish skipper in Cruisers Zero division and for Colin Byrne's Extravagance in Cruisers One too. The strong tides dictated tactics in the medium southerly winds off Sandycove point but it wasn't long before boats were benefiting from the tide as they bore off and hoisted spinnakers. Results for DBSC's 6 AUGUST 2011race are below:

BENETEAU 31.7 Echo- 1. Attitude (D.Owens/T.Milner), 2. Levante (B.Leyden/M.Leahy), 3. Thirty Something (Gerry Jones et al)

BENETEAU 31.7 - 1. Thirty Something (Gerry Jones et al), 2. Levante (B.Leyden/M.Leahy), 3. Prospect (Chris Johnston)

CRUISERS 0 Echo - 1. Tsunami (Vincent Farrell), 2. Lively Lady (Derek Martin)

CRUISERS 0 - 1. Wow (George Sisk), 2. Tsunami (Vincent Farrell), 3. Lively Lady (Derek Martin)

CRUISERS 1 Echo - 1. Jalapeno (Dermod Baker et al), 2. Xtravagance (Colin Byrne), 3. Joker 11 (John Maybury)

CRUISERS 1 - 1. Xtravagance (Colin Byrne), 2. Jalapeno (Dermod Baker et al), 3. Joker 11 (John Maybury)

CRUISERS 2 - 1. Jawesome 11 (V.Kennedy/M.Dyke), 2. Jester (Declan Curtin), 3. Bendemeer (Lindsay Casey Power)

CRUISERS 2 Echo - 1. Jester (Declan Curtin), 2. Graduate (D O'Keeffe), 3. Bendemeer (Lindsay Casey Power)

CRUISERS 3 Echo - 1. Asterix (Counihan/Meredith/Bushell), 2. Pamafe (Michael Costello), 3. Jammie Dodger (J.H & D.O'Neill)

CRUISERS 3 - 1. Supernova (K.Lawless et al), 2. Asterix (Counihan/Meredith/Bushell), 3. Pamafe (Michael Costello)

FLYING FIFTEEN - 1. Deranged (C.Doorly), 2. Frequent Flyer (D Mulvin), 3. Mellifluence (Tom Leonard)

FLYING FIFTEEN Race 2- 1. Deranged (C.Doorly), 2. Frequent Flyer (D Mulvin), 3. Kooigjug (K Dumpleton)

IDRA 14 FOOT - 1. Dunmoanin (Frank Hamilton), 2. Dart (Pierre Long), 3. Doody (J.Fitzgerald/J.Byrne)

IDRA 14 FOOT Race 2- 1. Dunmoanin (Frank Hamilton), 2. Doody (J.Fitzgerald/J.Byrne), 3. Dart (Pierre Long)

RUFFIAN 23 - 1. Ruff Nuff (D & C Mitchell), 2. Ruffles (Michael Cutliffe), 3. Diane ll (Bruce Carswell)

SHIPMAN - 1. Whiterock (Henry Robinson), 2. Therapi (Alan McCarthy et al), 3. Macro One (Joseph Murray)

SIGMA 33 - 1. Leeuwin (H&C Leonard & B Kerr), 2. Gwili Two (D.Clarke/P.Maguire), 3. White Mischief (Timothy Goodbody)

SQUIB - 1. Femme Fatale (Joe O'Byrne), 2. Little Bird (N Barnwell), 3. Anemos (Pete & Ann Evans)

SQUIB Race 2- 1. Femme Fatale (Joe O'Byrne), 2. Why Not (Derek & Jean Jago), 3. Kookaburra (P & M Dee)

WHITE SAIL CRUISERS Echo - 1. Coumeenole (Bill Kavanagh), 2. Arwen (Philip O'Dwyer), 3. Vespucci (S & K O'Regan)

WHITE SAIL CRUISERS - 1. Vespucci (S & K O'Regan), 2. Arwen (Philip O'Dwyer), 3. Persistence (C. Broadhead et al)

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Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) is one of Europe's biggest yacht racing clubs. It has almost sixteen hundred elected members. It presents more than 100 perpetual trophies each season some dating back to 1884. It provides weekly racing for upwards of 360 yachts, ranging from ocean-going forty footers to small dinghies for juniors.

Undaunted by austerity and encircling gloom, Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC), supported by an institutional memory of one hundred and twenty-nine years of racing and having survived two world wars, a civil war and not to mention the nineteen-thirties depression, it continues to present its racing programme year after year as a cherished Dublin sporting institution.

The DBSC formula that, over the years, has worked very well for Dun Laoghaire sailors. As ever DBSC start racing at the end of April and finish at the end of September. The current commodore is Eddie Totterdell of the National Yacht Club.

The character of racing remains broadly the same in recent times, with starts and finishes at Club's two committee boats, one of them DBSC's new flagship, the Freebird. The latter will also service dinghy racing on Tuesdays and Saturdays. Having more in the way of creature comfort than the John T. Biggs, it has enabled the dinghy sub-committee to attract a regular team to manage its races, very much as happened in the case of MacLir and more recently with the Spirit of the Irish. The expectation is that this will raise the quality of dinghy race management, which, operating as it did on a class quota system, had tended to suffer from a lack of continuity.