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'White Mischief' Wins IRC One AIB DBSC Summer Series Race in Dublin Bay

2nd August 2025
The National Yacht Club's Alan Green and Caroline Hanniffy were the winners of the second Flying Fifteen race of Saturday's (August 2nd) AIB DBSC Summer Series on Dublin Bay
The National Yacht Club's Alan Green and Caroline Hanniffy were the winners of the second Flying Fifteen race of Saturday's (August 2nd) AIB DBSC Summer Series on Dublin Bay Credit: Bob Bateman

Richard Goodbody's J109 White Mischief from the Royal Irish Yacht Club was the IRC One winner of Saturday's (August 2nd) race of the AIB DBSC Summer Series.

There were south-easterly winds from ten to 12 knots and the start of a flood tide on Dublin Bay for the racing in 21 classes for cruisers, one-design keelboats and dinghies.

In a sub-two-hour race, under Race Officer Barry MacNeaney, Goodbody's White Mischief (1:48:48 corr) had over a minute on Brian Hall's sistership Something Else (1:49:54 corr) from the National Yacht Club. Third was Anthony Fox's A35 Gringo with a 1:56:11 corrected time. Seven competed.

Overall, after 15 races sailed, Goodbody leads by three points from Hall. 

In the IRC Two division, Lindsay Casey's J97 Windjammer (1:38:26 corr) won from July's Sailor of the Month (Services to Sailing), Ian Bowring's Springer (1:43:18 corr). Two competed.

Gerry Costello's Pamafe won from Wyn McCormack's Wynward in the Cruisers Three ECHO division. Sarah Barry's Black Sheep 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. Three competed.

Oola was the winner of the Dublin Bay 21 race from Estelle. Third was Gerladine in the five-boat race.

Four competitors in the SB20 class, including national champion Michael O'Connor sailing Ted, won both races 26 and 27, bringing his total to 16 wins and an overall lead of 16 points.

In the two Flying Fifteen races, Keith Poole won the first and Alan Green the second.

Full DBSC results in all classes below.

Race Results

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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.