![Water Wag women at the Helm Regatta Water Wag women at the Helm Regatta - This group photo shows all the competing Water Wag women sailors plus women on the DBSC committee boat, taken in the National Yacht Club after Wednesday night racing. Pictured also back left is DBSC MacLir Committee Boat driver Ian Meldon who joined the photo!](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I000087elHZQY218/s/767/I000087elHZQY218.jpg)
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Kilroy Takes The DBSC Gun in Close Finish of Water Wag Race at Dun Laoghaire Harbour (Video)
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Chris Moore is “Sailor of the Month (Services to Sailing)” for July
2nd August 2022 Sailor of the Month![Facet Trophy winners - from left to right: John Lavery, winning helm, Pat Shannon (Facet Jewellers), Frank Burgess (MC), Alan Green, winning crew Facet Trophy winners - from left to right: John Lavery, winning helm, Pat Shannon (Facet Jewellers), Frank Burgess (MC), Alan Green, winning crew](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I00005hgcW6FUcWA/s/767/I00005hgcW6FUcWA.jpg)
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Correspondence to: Rosemary Roy, Hon. Secretary
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.