![DBSC Committee boat Freebird DBSC Committee boat Freebird](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000ToLr4ch5aDE/s/767/I0000ToLr4ch5aDE.jpg)
![Class One DBSC Cruiser racing on Dublin Bay Class One DBSC Cruiser racing on Dublin Bay](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000WKaKR8yLFug/s/767/I0000WKaKR8yLFug.jpg)
![J/97 Windjammer The J/97 Windjammer is one point off the overall lead in the DBSC Spring Chicken Series on Dublin Bay](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000pGSEjOeGNE8/s/767/I0000pGSEjOeGNE8.jpg)
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DBSC Spring Chicken Sailors Raise €2,735 for Ukraine Red Cross Fund With Matching Support From Viking Marine
7th March 2022 DBSC![Muglins Rock A 1720 sportsboat competitor rounds the Muglins Rock on Dublin Bay in a DBSC Spring Chicken Series Race](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I00009K3.mHC_MiI/s/767/I00009K3.mHC_MiI.jpg)
![J109 Dear Prudence DBSC Spring Chicken Series leader J109 Dear Prudence (green, white and orange kite)](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000vsWF4P.NG20/s/767/I0000vsWF4P.NG20.jpg)
![Lynn Kerin Lynn Kerin accepts the Loving Cup on behalf of her children Tom and Eva, husband Andrew and father Jonathan O’Rourke at the DBSC Mermaid prizegiving from Class Captain Paul Smith](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000nn6MohN1eNM/s/767/I0000nn6MohN1eNM.jpg)
![Blustery conditions Blustery conditions for the fourth race of the DBSC Spring Chicken Series on Dublin Bay](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I00003MuvZMSb_8U/s/767/I00003MuvZMSb_8U.jpg)
![Noel Colclough and Rupert Westrup Noel Colclough and Rupert Westrup from Periquin were winners of the DBSC Squib class Cocktail Shaker Trophy](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000s9AMrsgl9Ks/s/500/I0000s9AMrsgl9Ks.jpg)
![DBSC Spring Chicken DBSC Spring Chicken is cancelled - Gusts of up to 45 mph from the west are forecast for the start time on Dublin Bay on Sunday](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000ToLr4ch5aDE/s/767/I0000ToLr4ch5aDE.jpg)
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![Brian and Ian Mathews of the National Yacht Club Brian and Ian Mathews of the National Yacht Club took third overall in IRC on Phil Ellerby's British XC45 Exodus](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000j1Is9mewFgs/s/767/I0000j1Is9mewFgs.jpg)
![Dublin Bay 24 Wathara The now-modified 1948 Australian-built Dublin Bay 24 Wathara sailing in Sydney Harbour](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000_uY0MQ4xIPg/s/767/I0000_uY0MQ4xIPg.jpg)
![Dublin Bay Race Area A screenshot from Afloat's live Dublin Bay webcams this morning showing the race area for the now-cancelled first race of the DBSC Spring Chicken Series](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000vpwXrsXtSmk/s/767/I0000vpwXrsXtSmk.jpg)
![Royal St.George J80s There is a big turnout of Royal St.George J80s for the first race of the AIB sponsored DBSC Spring Chicken Series on Dublin Bay this Sunday](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000_F7YR7x7kek/s/767/I0000_F7YR7x7kek.jpg)
![Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) Spring Chicken Series The Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) Spring Chicken Series starts this Sunday - weather permitting](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000RwiT844B8Ww/s/500/I0000RwiT844B8Ww.jpg)
Correspondence to: Rosemary Roy, Hon. Secretary
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.