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Foley's Royal St. George First 8 'Allig8r' is DBSC Thursday Night IRC Two Winner in AIB Summer Series

15th August 2024
Royal St. George's Brendan Foley, at the helm of the First8 Allig8r, won by nearly three minutes in IRC Two of DBSC Thursday night's AIB Summer Series
oyal St. George's Brendan Foley, at the helm of the First8 Allig8r, won by nearly three minutes in IRC Two of DBSC Thursday night's AIB Summer Series Credit: Afloat

Dublin Bay Sailing Club's (DBSC) Thursday night fleet raced in medium-strengthened westerly winds with plenty of shifts in the 17th race of the AIB Summer Series off Dun Laoghaire.

A two-boat turnout in Class Zero IRC saw the Royal Irish Kyran McStay's X-35 D-Tox take the gun by just under a minute on corrected time from clubmate Sean Lemass's Prima Forte, recently returned from Calves Week Regatta in Schull, West Cork.

Richard and Timothy Goodbody's J109 White Mischief won in DBSC's Class One IRC by almost one and a half minutes on corrected time from National Yacht Club sistership, Brian Hall's Something Else. Third was the overall series leader Colin Byrne's Royal Irish XP33 Bon Exemple.

Royal St. George's Brendan Foley, at the helm of the First8 Allig8r, won by nearly three minutes from overall leader and clubmate Lindsay Casey's J97 Windjammer. Third was Paul Keelan's HB31, Hazy Blues. 

In ECHO Three, Michael Ryan's Saki beat Kevin Glynn's Grasshopper 2. Third was the McCormack's Wynward. 

David Ryan's 1720 Big Bad Wolf was the Sportsboat class winner from Martin Ryan's Jambiya. Ian Simmington's HH George 5 was third in a 10-boat turnout.

A 12-boat turnout of the Flying Fifteen class was won by Brian O'Hare's Nimble from Philip Lawton's Puffling.

Ann Kirwan in Bandit won from Dave Meeke's Alias, with Michael Cutliffe's Ruffles third in the eight-boat Ruffian 23s.

A four-boat SB20 fleet saw Ger Dempsey win from Richard Hayes in Carpe Diem. Grzegorz Kalinecki was third.

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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.