New York Yacht Club Among The Entries for Wednesday's Volvo Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race

3rd June 2023

There are 42 entries for Wednesday's biennial Volvo Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race, which started in 1983. The 30th anniversary race starts on Wednesday, July 7th at 2pm Credit: Afloat

“They are missing a lot of berths down there, but we’ll get everybody in by hook or by crook!

The words of Adam Winkelmann, chairman of the Dun Laoghaire-Dingle Race, speaking about Dingle’s marina.

A collision by a French fishing vessel with marina pontoons in the Kerry fishing harbour last November has caused a few headaches for the sailing race organisers.

Golden Globe Race competitor Pat Lawless will be racing in the Volvo Dun Laoghaire Dingle Race Photo: GGR

However, Winkelmann says he has been working with Dingle’s harbourmaster Nigel Collins on a berthing plan.

There are 42 entries in the biennial race, which started in 1993 as a cruise in company to West Cork for the summer and was run by a team including the late Martin Crotty for many years.

The Dun Laoghaire-Dingle Race is celebrating 30 years in 2023. Above Michael Cotter's maxi yacht Whisper set a course record in 2009 Photo: Afloat

Winkelmann, who has completed five of the races over its 30 years, spoke to Wavelengths at the National Yacht Club on the eve of its start on June 7th at 1400 hours.

A competitor arrives into Dingle marina in Co Kerry after racing from Dun Laoghaire to Dingle in the 2021 race Photo: Dominick Walsh

Listen to Wavelengths below

Afloat.ie · Adam Winkelmann and the 20323 Volvo Dun Laoghaire Dingle Race

The 15th edition of the 280-mile race organised by the National Yacht Club starts at 2 pm on Wednesday, June 7th, on Dublin Bay.

Read all the D2D Race News in one handy link here

WM Nixon will be posting regular race updates and analysis throughout the 2023 race

Published in Wavelength Podcast, Dun Laoghaire Dingle

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Lorna Siggins

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Lorna Siggins is a print and radio reporter, and a former Irish Times western correspondent. She is the author of Search and Rescue: True stories of Irish Air-Sea Rescues and the Loss of R116 (2022); Everest Callling (1994) on the first Irish Everest expedition; Mayday! Mayday! (2004); and Once Upon a Time in the West: the Corrib gas controversy (2010). She is also co-producer with Sarah Blake of the Doc on One "Miracle in Galway Bay" which recently won a Celtic Media Award

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