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Royal St. George's Sean Craig Wins DBSC Tuesday Race With an Excellent Turnout

2nd September 2020
Royal St. George's Sean Craig Royal St. George's Sean Craig Credit: Afloat

Royal St. George's Sean Craig was the Laser Radial division in last night's winner of Dublin Bay Sailing Club Laser Radial division race.

I McNamara was second to the former Irish Masters champion with Rian Geraghty-McDonnell in third place.

An excellent turnout of 114  boats at Dun Laoghaire Harbour, comprising 65 dinghies and 49 keelboats, took part in the Covid-extended Tuesday evening series on Dublin Bay last night, in a good SSE breeze.

Tuesday Series wins in PY Class & Fireball classes appear to be sewn up but first place is still up for grabs in many classes in next week's final race Tuesday race of the season.

DBSC Results for 01/09/2020

Cruiser 1 IRC: 1. Gringo, 2. Jalapeno, 3. Ruth

Cruiser 1 Echo: 1. Gringo, 2. Jalapeno, 3. Ruth

Cruiser 1 J109: 1. Jalapeno, 2. Ruth, 3. Something Else

31.7 One Design: 1. Mayfly, 2. Levante

Cruiser 2 Echo: 1. Boojum, 2. Estrellita

Cruiser 2 Sigma 33: 1. Pastiche, 2. Boojum

Cruiser 3 IRC: 1. Starlet, 2. Maranda

Cruiser 3 Echo: 1. Saki, 2. Maranda, 3. Papytoo

Sportsboat: 1. Jeorge 5/J Craig, 2. George/Riordan/Simington

Dragon: 1. Phantom, 2. ZinZan

Flying 15: 1. Ignis Caput, 2. The Gruffalo, 3. Perfect Ten

Ruffian: 1. Shannagh, 2. Bandit, 3. Ripples

B211 One Design: 1. Yikes, 2. Billy Whizz, 3. Ventuno

B211 Echo: 1. Ventuno, 2. Isolde, 3. Billy Whizz

Glen: 1. Glenroan, 2. GlenDun

PY Class: 1. Allsorts, 2. N Butler, 3. R Tate

IDRA 14: 1. Diane, 2. Dart, 3. Dutch Courage

Fireball: 1. F Miller, 2. O Sinnott, 3. C Power/M Barry

Laser Standard: 1. R Wallace, 2. D Maloney, 3. F Walker

Laser Radial: 1. S Craig, 2. I Mc Namara, 3. R Geraghty-McDonnell

Laser 4.7: 1. L Turvey, 2. H Turvey, 3. F McDonnell

Race Results

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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.