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IRC and ECHO Win for Power-Smith's 'Aurelia' in AIB DBSC Summer Saturday Series

25th August 2024
In a five-boat ECHO race in Cruisers Three, Edward Melvin's Sonata Ceol na Mara won from Gerry Costello's Pamafe with Michael Ryan's Saki (pictured above) third in the AIB DBSC Summer Saturday Series on Dublin Bay
In a five-boat ECHO race in Cruisers Three, Edward Melvin's Sonata Ceol na Mara won from Gerry Costello's Pamafe with Michael Ryan's Saki (pictured above) third in the AIB DBSC Summer Saturday Series on Dublin Bay Credit: Afloat

In Class Zero IRC racing, Chris Power Smith's J122 Aurelia won by a one and a half-minute margin on corrected time from Sean Lemass's First 40 Prima Forte in Race 14 of the Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) AIB Saturday Series. The result was repeated on the ECHO handicap.

Under Race Officer Barry MacNeaney, winds were westerly gusting up to 20 knots on a busy Dublin Bay that also saw the Dragon Irish National Championships and ILCA Nationals being staged on the same race track. 

Series leader Richard and Timothy Goodbody in the J109 White Mischief in IRC One (1:30:28 corr) won by over a minute on corrected time from Royal Irish clubmate Barry Cunningham's J109 Chimaera (1:31:47) in an eight-boat turnout. Third was Tom Shanahan's J109 Ruth (1:35:13), which switched to DBSC racing when Sunday's ISORA cross-Channel race was cancelled. The result was repeated on the ECHO handicap.

In a five-boat ECHO Two turnout, Lindsay Casey's J97 Windjammer (1:26:00) won from Dick Lovegrove's Sigma 33 Rupert from the Royal St. George won (1:31:38) with David O'Flynn's Sigma 33 Moonshine third (1:32:52).

In a five-boat ECHO race in Cruisers Three, Edward Melvin's Sonata Ceol na Mara won from Gerry Costello's Pamafe with Michael Ryan's Saki third. 

In selected results from the one design course under Race Officers Declan Traynor and Jim Dolan, in a 10-boat Flying Fifteen turnout, Ken Dumpleton's Rodriquez was first in the 26th race of the season. Niall Coleman's Flyer was second, and Alan Balfe's Perfect Ten was third. In the second race of the day (number 27 of the series), Keith Poole's Mike Wazowski won from Alastair Court's ffinisterre, and Perfect Ten was third again.

In the 26th race of the SB20 series, as part of a training weekend for the sportsboat class, national champion Michael O'Connor in Ted won from Niall O'Riordan's Sea Biscuit. Ger Dempsey Venues World was third.

In the Beneteau 31.7s on scratch, national champion Chris Johnston in Prospect won Michael & Bernie Bryson's Bluefin Two with John Power's Levante third. 

Results 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.