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Estelle Wins Saturday's Dublin Bay 21 DBSC Summer Series Race

19th July 2025
Dublin Bay 21 race winner Estelle (number 3) on port and Garavogue (number 4) in the first leg of the AIB DBSC Summer Saturday Series on Dublin Bay on July 19th
Dublin Bay 21 race winner Estelle (number 3) on port and Garavogue (number 4) in the first leg of the AIB DBSC Summer Saturday Series on Dublin Bay on July 19th Credit: Afloat

There were south-easterly winds from 14 to 19 knots on Dublin Bay for Saturday (July 19th) races of the AIB DBSC Summer Series.

A two-boat Cruisers Zero IRC race saw John Treanor's J112e Valentina from the National Yacht Club win from Sean Lemass's First 40, Prima Forte from the Royal Irish with a corrected time win of over nine minutes.

A five-boat turnout in Cruisers One IRC saw J109 designs in the top two places. In a two-hour race, Royal Irish's Richard Goodbody's White Mischief won by 14 seconds on corrected time (2:05:45 corr) from overall series leader Brian Hall, third on Something Else (2:05:45 corr) from the National Yacht Club. Third was Hall's clubmate, Tony Fox, in the A35, Gringo (2:09:24 corr).

In the IRC Two division, Lindsay Casey's J97 Windjammer (1:25:30 corr) won from Jim Mc Cann's Mustang 30 Peridot (1:28:16 corr). The Sigma 33 Moonshine (Moloney, O'Flynn & O'Sullivan) was third on 1:32:53 corr. Three competed.

Gerry Costello's First 285 Pamafe won from Sarah Barry's Black Sheep in Cruisers Three ECHO division. Wyn McCormack's Wynward was third. Four competed.

Johnny Phillips' Elan 333 Playtime won the Cruisers 5a (ECHO) race. Charles Broadhead's Persistence was second, and PJ Timmins' Misfits was third. Six competed.

Estelle was the winner of the Dublin Bay 21 race from Gerladine. Third was Garavogue. Oola did not finish the five-boat race.

Four competed in races 22 and 23 of the SB20 class with national champion, Michael O'Connor, sailing Ted, winning both.

In the two Flying Fifteen races, David Gorman won the first and Alistair Court the second.

Full DBSC results in all classes below.

Race Results

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Published in DBSC, Dublin Bay 21
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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.