Organisers expect a 40-boat fleet for the 14th edition of the biennial Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race in ten day's time.
The 320-mile offshore race will be a season highlight for the Irish fleet and is organised by the National Yacht Club.
An 11 boat ISORA fleet took the last chance for a D2D warm-up yesterday but conditions were light and flukey over the 50-mile coastal race course from Dublin Bay.
Sailing Instructions for the Wednesday, June 9th D2D start at 1355 hours off Dun Laoghaire has been published (downloadable below as a PDF document) and show the course shall be from the starting line in Scotsman’s Bay, East of Dun Laoghaire Harbour, leaving the marks listed hereunder to starboard:
- (i) Muglins
- (ii) Wicklow Head
- (iii) Tuskar Rock
- (iv) Barrels Light Buoy
- (v) Bore Rocks Buoy
- (vi) Coningbeg Light Buoy
- (vii) Red Bank Buoy
- (viii) Old Head of Kinsale
- (ix) Fastnet Rock
- (x) Mizen Head
- (xi) Calf Rock
- (xii) Gull Rock (off Bull Rock) and
- (xiii) Washerwoman Rock (off Great Skellig)
- (xiv) Great Skellig and thence to the finishing line off the entrance to Dingle Harbour.
Other race documents are now available from the D2D site here
Afloat will carry a full D2D race preview next Saturday (June 5) by WM Nixon