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Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) News & Results
Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) Results for Thursday, 7 May 2015
#dbsc – BENETEAU 31.7 - 1. Levana (Jean Mitton), 2. After You Too (Michael Blaney), 3. Prospect (Chris Johnston) BENETEAU 31.7 Echo- 1. Prospect (Chris Johnston), 2. Attitude (T Milner J Sugars M Branigan), 3. Thirty Something (Kavanagh\Gaffney\Jones) CRUISERS 0 Echo…
Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) Results for Tuesday, 5 May 2015
#dbsc – CRUISERS 2 - 1. Bendemeer (L Casey & D Power), 2. Jambiya (Ryan & Lattimore) CRUISERS 3 Tuesday - 1. Syzrgy (R Fogarty), 2. Grasshopper II (K & J Glynn), 3. Asterix (Boushel/Meredith/Counihan) Ensign - 1. INSS (K…
First DBSC Glen Class Race Recorded in Youtube Vid
#glen – Ki Duong, who sails on board Glenshane of the DBSC Glen keelboat class, is a keen video maker. He has produced his second Glen video featuring the first DBSC race of the season on April 23rd. Only three Glens attended although…
Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) Results for Saturday 2 May 2015
#DBSC - CRUISERS 1: 1 Something Else (J Hall et al); 2 Bon Exemple (C Byrne); 3 Gringo (Tony Fox) CRUISERS 1 Echo: 1 Something Else (J Hall et al); 2 Bon Exemple (C Byrne); 3 Gringo (Tony Fox) Combined…
Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) Results for Thursday, 30 April 2015
#dbsc – BENETEAU 31.7 Echo- 1. Prospect (Chris Johnston), 2. Levante (M.Leahy/J.Power), 3. Extreme Reality (P.McSwiney/E.O'Rafferty) BENETEAU 31.7 - 1. Prospect (Chris Johnston), 2. Levana (Jean Mitton), 3. Crazy Horse (F Heath & I Schuster) CRUISERS 0 Echo - 1.…
Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) Results for Tuesday, 28 April 2015
#dbsc – CRUISERS 3 Tuesday - 1. Wynward (W McCormack), 2. Grasshopper II (K & J Glynn), 3. Pamafe (M Costello) Ensign - 1. INSS (K Rumball), 2. INSS 2 (G Williams), 3. INSS 2 () FIREBALL Race 1- 1.…
Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) Results for Saturday, 25 April 2015
#dbsc – BENETEAU 31.7 Echo - 1. Fiddly Bits (Timmins/Quigley/Murray/Breen), 2. Levante (M.Leahy/J.Power), 3. Extreme Reality (P.McSwiney/E.O'Rafferty) BENETEAU 31.7 - 1. Legally Blonde (C.Drohan/P.Egan), 2. Bluefin Two (M & B Bryson), 3. Levante (M.Leahy/J.Power) CRUISERS 1 - 1. Bon Exemple…
Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) Results for Thursday, 23 April 2015
#dbsc – BENETEAU 31.7 - 1. After You Too (Michael Blaney), 2. Prospect (Chris Johnston), 3. Bluefin Two (M & B Bryson) BENETEAU 31.7 Echo- 1. Extreme Reality (P.McSwiney/E.O'Rafferty), 2. Prospect (Chris Johnston), 3. Fiddly Bits (Timmins/Quigley/Murray/Breen) CRUISERS 0 Echo…
DBSC Keelboats Are 'Five–Four–One Go' for 2015!
#dbsc – Dublin Bay Sailing Club's (DBSC) will bring its starting sequence into line with world sailing norms when it starts the first race of the 2015 season tomorrow night. All DBSC Keelboat classes will now start using the international…
DBSC 2015 Sailing Season Ready to Start on Dublin Bay
#dbsc – The boats are lifted in, 23 racing marks are laid across the Bay and the Dublin Bay Sailing Club yearbook has been posted to 1,200 members. It means only one thing; the biggest sailin league in the country…
Dun Laoghaire Sailing School Dinghy Charter Scheme Benefits Winter Sailors
#dinghycharter – At the end of the 2014 summer sailing season as we started to look towards the winter racing series and talk of the 1720s racing in the Dublin Bay Sailing Club's Turkey Shoot and Spring Series writes Kenneth…
INSS 1720 Sportsboat Wins DBSC Spring Chicken Series
#inss – Nerves of anticipation on board Team INSS yesterday morning as our Race Training Programme got towed out in no wind to the start line of the added race to the Rathfarnham Ford DBSC Spring Series writes Kenneth Rumball…
#springchicken – Going into the last race of Dublin Bay Sailing Club's 2015 Rathfarnham Ford Spring Chicken Series, the Beneteau Oceanis 36 Calypso continues to hold a single point lead over joint second placed boats, the 1720 sportsboat from the Irish National Sailing…
Calypso Leads DBSC Spring Chicken Series. Download Results Here!
#dbsc – Calypso, a Beneteau Oceanis 36, leads a 38–boat fleet by a single point after five races sailed in DBSC's Spring Chicken cruiser handicap series. After a discard has been applied there is a tie for second place between…
Caroline Leonard

Caroline Leonard

10th March 2015 DBSC
#dbsc – Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) is mourning the loss of its former vice–commodore Caroline Leonard, a stalwart of the Dun Laoghaire yacht racing scene who died yesterday. Caroline, a member of the Royal Irish Yacht Club since 1991, was for many years…
Start Times & Handicaps for Next Sunday's DBSC Spring Chicken Series
#dbsc – After two weekends of abandoned racing, this week's weather forecast gives a much more favourable picture for Sunday's fourth race of the Rathfarnham Ford sponsored DBSC Spring Chicken Series. Attached below are the start times & handicaps for the…

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.