![Flying Fifteen (Number 3970 Alan Green and Richard Tate) was dismasted tonight in DBSC's Thursday night race on Dublin Bay. The rig came down after the National YC entry had crossed the finish line. Strong Northerly winds produced excellent conditions for the 22 competing classes. Results below.](/media/k2/items/cache/f739a6e300fa45d3feb398d35d000b8d_L.jpg)
![A Glen keelboat](/media/k2/items/cache/a8e224a763ffd3a071090e660f64f776_L.jpg)
![Light winds for the start of today's DBSC dinghy and sportsboat starts](/media/k2/items/cache/ae59116a48f80e7b75c44d64ec73fcfa_L.jpg)
![Asterix (Boushel/Meredith/Counihan) was the DBSC Cruisers 3 race winner this afternoon](/media/k2/items/cache/9b98587b11ff7af3d16d31b5f7e9ed5d_L.jpg)
![Gringo (Tony Fox) was third in cruisers one IRC handicap in tonight's DBSC race](/media/k2/items/cache/e5806b9c63f3ddc0a715a4d7d035c1df_L.jpg)
![J/109 Powder Monkey (C.Moore) was second in Cruisers one in tonight's DBSC race](/media/k2/items/cache/2f2fa96d3e6077a6eb4c2a73d7e82fc5_L.jpg)
![Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) Dinghy Results for Sunday, 2 May 2016](/media/k2/items/cache/0962fc2c9f47b67fc42dbc67782c2f70_L.jpg)
![Squib keelboat Femme Fatale (V Delany) was the winner of both DBSC Green Fleet Races on Saturday](/media/k2/items/cache/c94ccc0ef87f61ecc63962cd72a9343f_L.jpg)
![Colin Byrne's Bon Exemple from the Royal Irish YC was the winner of today's DBSC Cruisers One IRC handicap race](/media/k2/items/cache/53f22eabcf11cd574ff42770957f4c91_L.jpg)
![Strong winds on Dublin Bay have led to the cancellation of DBSC racing tonight](/media/k2/items/cache/95c1b99daecebe4f63b107e383bfcb17_L.jpg)
![Racing marks for Dublin Bay Sailing Club's 132nd season that is scheduled to get underway tonight on Dublin Bay](/media/k2/items/cache/18debfe59ef44b481dcf50461f6aa8c1_L.jpg)
![Opening Race of Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) Season Cancelled Due to Strong Winds](/media/k2/items/cache/e5054b2db22196e7d713e814da867690_L.jpg)
Opening Race of Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) Season Cancelled Due to Strong Winds
26th April 2016 DBSC![The front cover of the 2016 DBSC yearbook launched today](/media/k2/items/cache/3345eb53f779f38897b1667426488e12_L.jpg)
![A 1720 negotiates light winds for the final race of the Spring Chicken Series today on Dublin Bay](/media/k2/items/cache/0c6fa55fd477422e64922ea07b94b238_L.jpg)
![Joker claims line honours last Sunday. See full video below](/media/k2/items/cache/05e5cb0a5141a92cd184639445e60a54_L.jpg)
![J109 Dear Prudence leads the DBSC Spring Chicken Series](/media/k2/items/cache/dff3501fd24b2d15f6a5c4c788074f62_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.