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Bay Champions Return for DBSC Spring Chicken Series This Sunday

7th February 2013
Bay Champions Return for DBSC Spring Chicken Series This Sunday

#dbsc – Another Adventure, Dara Cafferky's A35, the winner of the pre–Christmas DBSC Turkey Shoot, will be on the Dublin Bay line again this Sunday for the Viking Marine sponsored six race Spring Chicken Series.

Sailing Instructions, Handicaps and Starts are downloadable below as word and excel docs.

After the opening race was scrubbed due to high winds last Sunday there is heightened expectation proceedings will finally get underway this weekend but already a forecast of North West gales threatens this first race again. 

The assembled fleet of 52 boats is a few up on last year and for the first time the fleet includes an SB20 sportsboat.

The series is six weeks duration with racing scheduled up to the 10th March, finishing up before the St.Patrick's weekend.

Sunday's forecast issued by Dun Laoghaire Marina shows a deep area of low pressure centered over Wales with a frontal system extending from this low up through the Irish sea into Northern Ireland.

The forecast is for cloudy, misty, windy morning with outbreaks of rain and drizzle. There will be patchy rain that may persist in the Irish Sea. It will be windy with gales developing and rough seas.

DBSC organisers have issued a reminder to give room at all points, particularly at marks, even if you are in the right! 'Keep it pleasant for everybody', is the request.

 

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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.