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Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) News & Results
Final DBSC Spring Chicken Race Cancelled Due to Strong Winds
#dbsc – Sea conditions and strong easterly winds on Dublin Bay have cancelled this morning's final race of the DBSC Chicken Series. The overall prizegiving will be held in the National Yacht Club this mornng at 11am.  
Wind Fills in on Dublin Bay for DBSC Spring Chicken Race
#dbsc – Race 5 of the Dublin Bay Spring Series, would it happen for the Irish National Sailing Club (INSC) crews asked Instructor/Skipper Kenneth Rumball yesterday Certainly driving down, the coast road to Dun Laoghaire, it was questionable, Dublin Bay…
Jump the Gun Sails into the Overall Lead at DBSC Spring Chicken Series
#dbsc – Jump the Gun holds the lead from Joker II by two nett points at the half way stage of DBSC's Viking Marine sponsored Spring Chicken series after light airs last Sunday but thrid fourth and fifth places are…
Calmer Seas for Dublin Bay Spring Chicken Race
#dbsc – Kenneth Rumball of the Irish National Sailing Club (INSC) reports on a lighter day for the hardened INSC crews competing in yesterday's DBSC Spring Chicken Series who after last week's conditions of 30kts and a big sea were…
Bay Racers Prepare for Fourth Race of DBSC Spring Chicken Series (Handicaps here)
#dbsc – A good breeze last week gave an exciting sail to Dalkey island last Sunday with an eventful finish for some including a 1720 and a J109. This Sunday's race is looking lighter with a left-over easterly sloppy sea-state…
J109s Continue to Lead the 44-Boat Spring Chicken fleet on Dublin Bay
#DBSC – John Maybury's consistent performer Joker 2 leads the fleet in to the halfway stage of the Viking Marine sponsored Spring Chicken series this Sunday. The Royal Irish contender is five points clear of sistership Ruth, the Liam Shanahan…
Muglins Rock Provides Great Downwind Course for DBSC Spring Chickens
#dbsc – A sunny morning greeted the three INSC boats in the 2013 DBSC Spring Series, however with a windy forecast and some strong gusts in the inner coal harbour, questions were asked, were we going to be going ahead?…
J109 Designs to the Fore in First Race of DBSC Spring Chicken Series
#springchicken – J109 Sisterships Joker 2 (john Maybury) and Ruth (Liam Shanahan) have made the early handicap running in Dublin Bay Sailing Club's (DBSC) first of six race Spring Chicken series finishing first and second respectively. The pair beat the…
INSC Learn to Sail Boats take Line Honours in DBSC's Spring Chicken Series
#dbsc –Dun Laoghaire's Irish National Sailing (INSC) are off to a flying start in boats in the DBSC Spring Chicken Series that got underway yesterday on Dublin Bay.  Here's the INSC's Kenneth Rumball on the day's adventures in the Cruiser…
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…
#dublinbay21s – Celebrating several sailing centenaries have been joyful occasions on Dublin bay recently, seen as opportunities to reflect on the capital's rich sailing tradition. But the misfortune of the Dublin Bay 21 foot class represents a far bigger problem…
DBSC Cruiser Challenge Rides Again in 2013
#dbsc – Dublin Bay Sailing Club's (DBSC) Cruiser Challenge will be run again in 2013 following a break in 2012. The popular endof season event for cruiser classes 0, 1, 2, 3, Sigma 33 and Beneteau 31.7 will run under…
DBSC Announces February 'Spring Chicken' Series for Dublin Bay
#dbsc – Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) launched its pre–season 'Spring Chicken' series today announcing a series of six races to be held on Sunday mornings from 3rd February to 10th March. The entry fee for the Viking Marine sponsored…
DBSC Turkey Shoot Lead by Vintage Sparkmans & Stephens Design
#dbsc – Regular Round Ireland competitor Sarnia, one of the oldest boats in the fleet, now leads the Viking Marine DBSC Turkey Shoot with points starting to tighten up for the first ten boats overall. The Sparksman and Stephens 36-footer…
New Dublin Bay Flagship to Boost Yacht Racing in the Capital
#dbsc – In a busy week for the country's biggest sailing club Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) launched its new committee vessel today, its annual Winter series enters its second week tomorrow and on Friday, in one of the biggest…
DBSC Turkey Shoot Handicaps for 11 November 2012
#dbsc – After last weekend's baptism of fire in gusty conditions in the first race of the Viking Marine sponsored DBSC Turkey Shoot series new handicaps have been issued by the race organiser for Sunday's second race. Over 70 boats…

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.