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Cruisers out in force for Saturday DBSC Racing

24th August 2009
Cruisers out in force for Saturday DBSC Racing
A busy Saturday for Dublin Bay Sailing Club – lots of racing in near-perfect conditions brought out the best in Extremity, Tiamat, Something Else and Gung Ho, to name but a few. Full results over the fold.

DUBLIN PORT Dublin Bay Sailing Club Results for 22 AUGUST 2009  Beneteau 31.7 Echo – 1 Extremity, Paul D'Alton, 2 Attitude, D. Owens/T. Milner, 3 Prospect, Chris Johnston. Beneteau 31.7 – 1 Prospect, 2 Magic, D. O'Sullivan/D. Espey, 3 Attitude, D. Owens/T. Milner. Cruisers 0 Echo – 1 Tiamat, Tim Costello, 2 WOW, George Sisk, 3 Lively Lady, Derek Martin. Cruisers 0 - 1 Tiamat, 2 WOW, 3 Lively Lady. Cruisers 1 Echo – 1 Something Else, J. Hall et al, 2 Adrenalin, Joe McDonald, 3 Jetstream, Peter Redden. Cruisers– 1 Something Else, 2 Contango, Barry Cunningham, 3 Jalapeno, Dermod Baker et al. Cruisers 2 – 1 Jawesome 11, V. Kennedy/M. Dyke, 2 Dick Dastardly, B. Cusack et al, 3 Bendemeer, Gerald Kinsella. Cruisers 2 Echo – 1 Kamikaze, P. Nash/B. McIntyre, 2 Cor Baby, Keith Kiernan et al, 3 Helter Skelter, Adrienne Jermyn. Cruisers 3 Echo – 1 Gung Ho, G. & S. O'Shea, 2 Two Step, Ross Doyle, 3 Supernova, K. Lawless et al. Cruisers 3 – 1 Gung Ho, 2 Two Step, Ross Doyle, 3 Supernova. Cruisers 4 – 1 Chico, L. Egar/S. Keane, 2 Rascal, K. Burke/S. Milner, 3 Maranda, Myles Kelly. Flying Fifteen Race 1 – 1 Hy5ive, D. & S. Gorman, 2 Kooigjug, K. Dumpleton, 3 Deranged, C. Doorly. Flying Fifteen Race 2 – 1. Hy5ive, 2. Rollercoaster, Tom Murphy, 3 Kooigjug, K. Dumpleton). IDRA 14 Foot Race 1 –1 Dunmoanin, Frank Hamilton. Mermaid Race 1 – 1 Jill, P.Smith/P. Mangan, 2 Oonagh, J. & M. Griffith, 3 Aideen, B. Martin/D. Brennan. Mermaid Race 1 – 1 Oonagh, 2 Aideen. Ruffian 23 – 1 Diane ll, Bruce Carswell, 2 Ruff N Ready, Ann Kirwan et al, 3 Alias, D. Meeke/M. McCarthy. Squib Race 1 – 1 Waverider, F. Gaynor/T. Bryan, 2 Femme Fatale, Joe O'Byrne, 3 Little Demon, Marie Dee. Squib Race 2 – 1 Waverider, 2 Nimble, Brian O'Hare, 3 Little Demon. White Sail Cruisers Echo – 1 Xerxes, Dan O'Neill, 2 Windshift, James O'Connor, 3 Act Two, Michael O'Leary et al. White Sail Cruisers – 1 Act Two, 2 Xerxes, 3 Windshift.                             

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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.