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Royal Irish J109 'White Mischief' Takes Six Second DBSC Saturday Win in IRC One

11th August 2024
Richard and Timothy Goodbody in the J109 White Mischief won their fifth IRC race of the Dublin Bay Sailing Club AIB Saturday Series
Richard and Timothy Goodbody in the J109 White Mischief won their fifth IRC race of the Dublin Bay Sailing Club AIB Saturday Series Credit: Afloat

With no Class Zero racing on Saturday, it fell to Class One to represent 'big boat' interests in Saturday's Race 12 of the Dublin Bay Sailing Club AIB Saturday Series.

Richard and Timothy Goodbody in the J109 White Mischief won their fifth IRC race.

Winds were westerly from nine with gusts up to 17 knots on a warm and sunny Bay race track under Race Officer Barry MacNeaney.

The Royal Irish family crew won by six seconds from clubmate Barry Cunngingham's J109 Chimaera. In a four-boat turnout, John and Brian Hall's J109, Something Else from the National Yacht Club, which lies second overall, was third.

In a two-boat IRC Two turnout, Lindsay Casey's J97 Windjammer won from Jim McCann's Mustang 30 Peridot.

Only Myles Kelly's Senator Maranda participated in IRC Three, but Frank Guilfoyle's Papytoo won the three-boat ECHO fleet.

On the one design course under Race Officer Michael Keogh and Jim Dolan, in a 10-boat Flying Fifteen turnout, Alistair Court's Ffinisterre was first in the 24th race of the season. Alan Green's Mach Five was second, and Brian O'Hare's Nimble third. Only one race was sailed.

In the 22nd race of the SB20 races, Richard Hayes's Carpe Diem won from David Bolger's Gilded Lady. Grzegorz Kalinecki's SportChip.ie was third.

Ann Kirwan and Brian Cullen's Bandit was the Ruffian 23 race winner in a six-boat fleet.

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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.