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Royal Irish's 'Raptor' Recovers To Take Second After Recall in DBSC Cruisers One Saturday Race

2nd September 2023
Four boats were judged to be ahead of the pin-end flag in Saturday's DBSC Cruisers One start with all four boats returning and starting. Raptor (closest to camera) was one of the four and went on to finish second in the ten boat IRC race
Four boats were judged to be ahead of the pin-end flag in Saturday's DBSC Cruisers One start with all four boats returning and starting. Raptor (closest to camera) was one of the four and went on to finish second in the ten boat IRC race Credit: Con Murphy

It's not often Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) racers don shorts and T-shirts for AIB Saturday Series racing – and rarer still in September – but today's 2nd September fixture presented such an opportunity with a warm sea breeze of up to ten knots on Dublin Bay.

There was an individual recall in the Cruisers One start, with four boats on course side (OCS), but all four (Something Else, Powder Monkey, Ruth and Raptor) returned with the Mills 31 Raptor skippered by Fintan Cairns managing to take second on IRC rating in the ten boat race despite the start line blip.

The Race Officer was Con Murphy.

Timothy Goodbody's J109 White Mischief of the Royal Irish was the race winner in a corrected time of 1 hour, 30 minutes and 11 seconds. Clubmate Raptor finished in 1:31:14, corrected with another RIYC entry, Colin Byrne's XP33 Bon Exemple, third in a corrected time of  1:31:24.

With four Saturday races left to sail in the 2023 Series, White Mischief leads on 14 points from Bon Exemple on 16, with John Hall's J109 Something Else from the National Yacht Club lying third on 32.5.

Full DBSC results in all classes below.

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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.