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DBSC Urges Early Entries Ahead Of 2026 Summer Season Start

16th March 2026
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Race Ready: DBSC committee vessel Corinthian heads past the East Pier lighthouse at Dun Laoghaire Harbour while on duty for the AIB DBSC Race Series on Dublin Ba Credit: Afloat

Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) has issued a reminder that the late entry deadline for keelboats and Water Wags in the 2026 AIB DBSC summer season is approaching.

Entries must be submitted by Wednesday, 18 March, with the club urging members to complete registration as soon as possible.

The entry form currently available applies to keelboats and Wags only, while dinghy competitors will receive separate information shortly.

The 2026 AIB DBSC Notice of Race and membership renewal forms are now available online here

The club’s full summer programme is scheduled to run from Thursday, 23 April to Saturday, 26 September 2026.

Racing will begin on Thursday, 23 April, followed by the first Saturday series on 25 April and the opening Tuesday racing on 28 April.

The final Tuesday race will take place on 25 August, while the Thursday series concludes on 27 August. The final Saturday racing is scheduled for 26 September.

DBSC will again run the Women on the Water Tuesday Evening series, which requires a female helm and a crew comprising at least 50 per cent women.

The Under-30s Keelboat Team initiative, offering a 25 per cent entry discount, will also return for the coming season.

DBSC communications officer Kevin Byrne said the club looks forward to welcoming competitors back to Dublin Bay.

“We hope you can join us in what we hope will be a great season of racing in 2026,” he said.

Further updates will be issued before the season begins, with the AIB DBSC 2026 Yearbook due to be published early in the season.

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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.