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Prima Forte Wins Dublin Bay Sailing Club Race on IRC & ECHO

12th August 2021
Myles Kelly's Maranda from the DMYC was second in IRC 3 of DBSC's Thursday race

Patrick Burke's First 40 Prima Forte had a win IRC and ECHO in Cruiser Zero in Dublin Bay Sailing Club's (DBSC) Thursday night race. 

117 boats in all DBSC classes enjoyed a good breeze on the bay for the race that counts towards overall points in the club's AIB Summer Series.

George Sisk's XP 44 WOW was second. Third was El Pocko, the German Frers Puma 42 that was dismasted last season.

In Cruiser 1 IRC, Tim and Richard Goodbody's J109 White Mischief was the winner, Paul Barirington's Jalapeno was second. Third was Tony Fox's IMX 38, Gringo

Results summary for all classes below 

DBSC Results for 12/08/2021


Cruiser 0 IRC: 1. Prima Forte, 2. Wow, 3. El Pocko

Cruiser 0 Echo: 1. Prima Forte, 2. Wow, 3. El Pocko

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

Cruiser 1 Echo: 1. Joker II, 2. Raptor, 3. Gringo

Cruiser 1 J109: 1. White Mischief, 2. Jalapeno, 3. Chimaera

31.7 One Design: 1. Levante, 2. Bluefin Two, 3. Kernach

31.7 Echo: 1. Bluefin Two, 2. Levante, 3. Kernach

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

Cruiser 2 Echo: 1. Rupert, 2. Leeuwin, 3. Peridot

Cruiser 2 Sigma 33: 1. Rupert, 2. Leeuwin, 3. Springer

Cruiser 3 IRC: 1. Starlet, 2. Maranda, 3. Krypton

Cruiser 3 Echo: 1. Saki, 2. Starlet, 3. Grasshopper 2

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

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

Cruiser 5A NS-IRC: 1. Playtime, 2. The Great Escape, 3. Edenpark

Cruiser 5A Echo: 1. Playtime, 2. Edenpark, 3. The Great Escape

Cruiser 5B Echo: 1. Sweet Martini, 2. Menapia, 3. Fortitudine

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

Flying 15: 1. Match FFive, 2. Rodriguez, 3. FFuZZy

Sportsboat VPRS: 1. Jheetah, 2. Jester, 3. The Jeorgettes

Sportsboat: 1. George 2, 2. Jheetah, 3. Jester

Dragon: 1. Sir Ossis o'the River, 2. ZinZan, 3. D-cision

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

Shipman: 1. Viking, 2. Invader, 3. The Den

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

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

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

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

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.