![Round Ireland competitor, trimaran Phaedo3 passes by DBSC Committee Vessel Freebird before tonight's club race on Dublin Bay](/media/k2/items/cache/ffcd8e0fea1ac69141cd4289b8bb6156_L.jpg)
![Clandog Millionaire (C Clancy) was the Fireball class winner of tonight's DBSC race](/media/k2/items/cache/72292ad6bc465757b6b1185f71839239_L.jpg)
![Red Rhum (J Nicholson) was the winner of DBSC's Cruisers 2 Thursday night race](/media/k2/items/cache/d27db942ff4da8c95559092cc00b7e15_L.jpg)
![Asterix (Boushel/Meredith/Counihan) was second in tonight's Cruisers 3 DBSC race](/media/k2/items/cache/8a6eea12ac8b274c6afd6fe9af43c68b_L.jpg)
![Squib and Flying Fifteen one design keelboat classes competing in today's DBSC 'B2' Course on Dublin Bay](/media/k2/items/cache/7060cce9dc115550453f41be63af6ca7_L.jpg)
![DBSC committee vessel Freebird on station for tonight's dinghy racing in Scotsman's bay](/media/k2/items/cache/bbb78ea33ad3850467d28e91124b3b84_L.jpg)
![Cruiser classes competing into day's DBSC/RAYC coastal race](/media/k2/items/cache/bdd25e313d3f145021ebc2fe3cd9daaa_L.jpg)
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![The first of a series of three DBSC afternoon coastal races begins this Saturday on Dublin Bay](/media/k2/items/cache/249d6e54c4dad265ecc2426fd23c5e95_L.jpg)
![Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) Results for Tuesday, 24th May 2016](/media/k2/items/cache/f2978a5aafda08c6534e9153b1c107e9_L.jpg)
![IDRA 14 Number 161 Dart 161 (Pierre Long) from the DMYC competing in Sunday's DBSC dinghy race](/media/k2/items/cache/db5407dfd9b3f163e1a65460e46071d7_L.jpg)
![Ronnie Moloney's Moonshine was third in today's first race of the Sigma 33 class as part of the Sherry Fitzgerald sponsored DBSC series on Dublin Bay](/media/k2/items/cache/0f7bfdda1fcbccbb7b24872229e44b1e_L.jpg)
![Ruffian Ruffles (No. 57) skippered by Michael Cutliffe of the DMYC competing in tonight's DBSC race](/media/k2/items/cache/2a27f766cd9f442afdfdba2d85062f4d_L.jpg)
![DBSC Laser dinghies round the weather mark in tonight's Tuesday night racing on Scotsman's Bay with the backdrop of anchored Naval Vessel LE James Joyce (P62). Both of tonight's Laser races were won by Royal Irish sailor Paul Keane. Full results below](/media/k2/items/cache/02dd9ef15f03448dcbed95058792b74f_L.jpg)
![The Shipman Curraglas (459) skippered by John P. Masterson of the National YC sails inshore to escape a flooding tide into today's light air DBSC race](/media/k2/items/cache/a5ee523ecf0d1656ed1832e4ecba4521_L.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.