Fleet of 34 to set sail in Dun Laoghaire to Dingle

21st May 2009

34 boats – and more to come – will come to the line off Dun Laoghaire for the race to Dingle on June 6th. National YC sailing manager Olivier Prouveur says many of the fleet, drawn from over a dozen clubs, will compete in the following week’s ICRA National Championships in Tralee. As such the joint event between Kerry and Dublin sailing interests is a convenient means of positioning boats for the West coast fixture.

Others however continue to enter simply for the race itself; its convenient 180–mile duration that requires only one night at sea plus the shelter in many ports en route if weather deteriorates.

Organisers are planning to use GPS to track the fleet south for the first time an innovation now widely used in other offshore events around the world.

Form boats inlcude Gallileo fom the host club. The Beneteau 47.7, owned and sailed by Sean Lemass, Tony Tennyson and Kellher won this month's Lee Overlay race to Arklow. Legally Brunette an X41 design, from the Royal St. George and sailed by Cathal Drohan and Paul Egan are recent winners in Malta's Middle sea race. Also entered are four J109s.

Registration shall take place between 1600 and 1800 hours on Friday 5th June at the National Yacht Club. A competitor’s briefing will be held at 1830hrs in the Club.

The start shall be in the vicinity of Dun Laoghaire Harbour on Saturday 6th June 2009. The scheduled time for the warning signal is 1000 hrs. There will be a Race Prizegiving Dinner in The Dingle Skellig Hotel on the evening of Tuesday, 9th June 2009. More here.

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Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Yacht Race Information

The biennial Dun Laoghaire to Dingle race is a 320-miles race down to the east coast of Ireland, across the south coast and into Dingle harbour in County Kerry.

The race is organised by the National Yacht Club.

It never fails to offer a full range of weather, wind and tide to the intrepid entrants, ranging from a 32ft cruiser to a 79ft all-out racer.

Three divisions are available to enter: cruiser (boats equipped with furlers), racing (the bulk of the fleet) and also two-handed.

D2D Course change overruled

In 2019, the organisers considered changing the course to allow boats to select routes close to shore by removing the requirement to go outside Islands and Lighthouses en route, but following input from regular participants, the National Yacht Club decided to stick with the tried and tested course route in order to be fair to large and smaller boats and to keep race records intact.

D2D Course record time

Mick Cotter’s 78ft Whisper established the 1 day and 48 minutes course record for the Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race in 2009 and that time stood until 2019 when Cotter returned to beat his own record but only just, the Dun Laoghaire helmsman crossing the line in Kerry to shave just 20 seconds off his 2009 time.