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Prima Forte Has a Firm Hand in DBSC Cruisers Zero Race

17th July 2021
Patrick Burke's First 40 Prima Forte of the Royal Irish Yacht Club
Patrick Burke's First 40 Prima Forte of the Royal Irish Yacht Club Credit: Afloat

Patrick Burke's First 40 Prima Forte of the Royal Irish Yacht Club was the IRC winner of Dubin Bay Sailing Club's Cruiser 0 AIB Summer Series Saturday race.  

Second and third on IRC were the First 40.7 sisterships Tsunami (Vincent Farrell) of the National Yacht Club and the RIYC's Lively Lady (Rodney and Keith Martin) respectively. 

A total of DBSC 127 boats across 22 classes enjoyed a fine sunny afternoon on the bay in light South Easterly winds.

A full results summary is below: 

DBSC Results for 17/07/2021

Race 1

Cruiser 0 IRC: 1. Prima Forte, 2. Tsunami, 3. Lively Lady

Cruiser 0 Echo: 1. Lively Lady, 2. Tsunami, 3. Prima Forte

Cruiser 1 IRC: 1. White Mischief, 2. Jalapeno, 3. Gringo

Cruiser 1 Echo: 1. Jump the Gun, 2. Gringo, 3. White Mischief

Cruiser 1 J109: 1. White Mischief, 2. Jalapeno, 3. Dear Prudence

31.7 One Design: 1. Kalamar, 2. Camira, 3. Bluefin Two

31.7 Echo: 1. Kalamar, 2. Bluefin Two, 3. Attitude

Cruiser 2 IRC: 1. Windjammer, 2. Rupert, 3. Peridot

Cruiser 2 Echo: 1. Gwili II, 2. Leeuwin, 3. Springer

Cruiser 2 Sigma 33: 1. Leeuwin, 2. Gwili II, 3. Rupert

Cruiser 3 IRC: 1. Starlet, 2. Maranda

Cruiser 3 Echo: 1. Maranda, 2. Wynward, 3. Saki

Cruiser 4 NS-IRC: 1. Boomerang, 2. Karukera, 3. RunAway

Cruiser 4 Echo: 1. Boomerang, 2. Karukera, 3. RunAway

Cruiser 5 NS-IRC: 1. Playtime, 2. Persistance, 3. Gung Ho

Cruiser 5 Echo: 1. Playtime, 2. Just Jasmin, 3. Persistance

SB20: 1. venuesworld.com, 2. Carpe Diem, 3. So Blue

Flying 15: 1. Shane MacCarthy, 2. Phoenix, 3. Ignis Caput II

Sportsboat VPRS: 1. Jawesome III, 2. Jheetah, 3. Jester

Sportsboat: 1. Jawesome III, 2. Jheetah, 3. Jester

Ruffian: 1. Ruffles, 2. Alias, 3. Bandit

Shipman: 1. Invader, 2. Poppy, 3. Viking

B211 One Design: 1. Small Wonder, 2. Billy Whizz, 3. Chinook

B211 Echo: 1. Ventuno, 2. Vamoose, 3. Small Wonder

Glen: 1. GlenDun, 2. Glenluce, 3. Pterodactyl

Squib/Mermaid PY: 1. Jill, 2. Allsorts, 3. Lively Lady

PY Class: 1. Richard Tate, 2. Teddy Byrne, 3. Roy Van Maanen

IDRA 14: 1. Dart, 2. Doody, 3. Dunmoanin

Fireball: 1. Owen Sinnott, 2. Paul ter Horst

Laser Radial: 1. David Cahill, 2. John O'Driscoll, 3. Alice Tyrrell

Race 2

SB20: 1. Carpe Diem, 2. SeaBiscuit, 3. venuesworld.com

Flying 15: 1. Phoenix, 2. ffantastic mr ffox, 3. Fflagella

Sportsboat VPRS: 1. Jambiya, 2. Jawesome III, 3. Jester

Sportsboat: 1. Jambiya, 2. Jawesome III, 3. Jester

Ruffian: 1. Ruffles, 2. Bandit, 3. Alias

B211 One Design: 1. Small Wonder, 2. Chinook, 3. Beeswing

B211 Echo: 1. Ventuno, 2. Vamoose, 3. Betty B

Squib/Mermaid PY: 1. Jill, 2. Allsorts, 3. Lively Lady

PY Class: 1. Roy Van Maanen, 2. Teddy Byrne, 3. Richard Tate

IDRA 14: 1. Dunmoanin, 2. Dart, 3. Chaos

Fireball: 1. Owen Sinnott, 2. Paul ter Horst

Laser Radial: 1. John O'Driscoll, 2. David Cahill, 3. John Sisk

Race Results

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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.