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DBSC End of Season Race Date Change For Annalise's Civic Homecoming Reception

23rd August 2016
Laser sailing in Dun Laoghaire harbour. DBSC members will salute Olympic silver medal winner Annalise Murphy at her civic homecoming reception in Dun Laoghaire on Thursday. The club's end of season race has been moved to Wednesday evening. Laser sailing in Dun Laoghaire harbour. DBSC members will salute Olympic silver medal winner Annalise Murphy at her civic homecoming reception in Dun Laoghaire on Thursday. The club's end of season race has been moved to Wednesday evening. Credit: Afloat.ie

Dublin Bay Sailing Club's 2016 end of season race, an important occasion in the Club’s racing calendar, has been rescheduled to this Wednesday (August 24th) to allow Dublin Bay sailors participate in Annalise Murphy's special homecoming reception at the People's Park in Dun Laoghaire.

The Dublin Bay sailor won an Olympic silver medal in Rio 2016 in the Laser Radial class and will be welcomed back to the borough on Thursday evening from 6pm.

DBSC Commodore Chris Moore says he wants to give members the chance to 'participate in this remarkable tribute to this illustrious member of the Dublin Bay sailing community'.

The Water Wags, who race each Wednesday in the harbour have asked boats transiting the harbour to respect the Wag race. 'Please ask yachts under power to avoid creating excessive washes', a Wag spokesman said.

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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.