Royal Alfred Yacht Club, Dun Laoghaire News and Updates
The AIB DBSC Royal Alfred Yacht Club Super League Cup will return for the 2026 sailing season, spanning three series across Dublin Bay and key regatta fixtures. The series will run under the combined burgee of Dublin Bay Sailing Club…
A second Royal Alfred Yacht Club silver tankard has come to light, this time in the United Kingdom. Earlier this year, Cork Harbour reader John Crosbie found a similar item while clearing his house in Cobh. His discovery prompted calls…
Dublin Bay Sailing Club's AIB-Sponsored Programme Moves into the 141st Season on a Broad Front
3rd May 2025 DBSC
It's more like the tide gently making, rather than the razzmatazz and splash of some fanfare-laden flag-bedecked traditional Opening Day. Sailing in south Dublin Bay, with its focus almost entirely through the majestic artificial harbour of Dun Laoghaire, gradually manifests…
Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) has announced an AIB DBSC Royal Alfred Yacht Club (RAYC) Super League Cup that will take place during the 2025 AIB DBSC racing season. The club describes the May to September initiative as a "reintroduction…
Classic Yacht Dublin Bay 24 Zephyra To Be Launched In June, Re-Born in Maine
6th March 2024 Historic Boats
The concept of the Dublin Bay 24, envisaged as a 24ft waterline 37ft LOA Bermuda-rigged racer-cruiser, was first suggested in 1934 at a Committee Meeting of the innovative yet “homeless” Royal Alfred YC in Dun Laoghaire by the owner-skipper of…
Royal Alfred Yacht Club Tankard Discovered in Cobh House Clear-Out Poses Questions
11th November 2023 Royal Alfred YC
A reader from Cork Harbour has reached out to Afloat in the hope of garnering more information about a silver tankard he recently stumbled upon. John Crosbie was clearing out his house in Cobh when he discovered the Royal Alfred…
Dun Laoghaire Harbour Enjoying Weekend Of Circulating DBSC and ISORA Silverware
11th November 2023 W M Nixon
It’s prize-giving time down beside the Old Granite Pond. Last night (Friday), Commodore Eddie Totterdell presided over Dublin Bay Sailing Club’s annual re-distribution of their enormous cache of trophies in the National Maritime Museum in Dun Laoghaire. And tonight (Saturday),…
Clare Hogan, who sadly died on 10th April 2021, taken from us so prematurely, will be sorely missed by her sailing friends, particularly those of us in the Irish Dragon Class. She sailed from the Royal St George Yacht Club…
It is with the greatest regret that we report the death of Clare Hogan, an extremely talented sailor - particularly in the International Dragon Class - who also gave much to sailing administration, having served as Commodore of the Royal Alfred…
It is with sadness that we learn of the death of Dublin Bay sailor Norman Long who was a great contributor to Irish and International sailing since the late sixties. My memory of Norman appearing on the sailing scene was…
Representatives of the International Rating Certificate (IRC) from around the world met in France for two days of debate and discussion at the beginning of October. The 2019 Congress was hosted by l’Union Nationale pour la Course au Large (UNCL)…
RAYC Prizegiving Dinner Cancelled 'Due to Unforeseen Circumstances'
28th November 2016 Royal Alfred YC
The Royal Alfred Yacht Club's Black–Tie Dinner scheduled for the National Yacht Club this Saturday has been cancelled 'due to unforeseen circumstances'. The club's Bloomsday Trophies will be available for collection in the NYC admin office (downstairs) from Tuesday 6th…
The worst kept secret in Dublin sailing circles became public after a Royal Alfred Yacht Club EGM last night voted in favour of the motion 'that the Royal Alfred Yacht Club be incorporated into Dublin Bay Sailing Club'. The proposal…
Two of Dublin's leading yacht racing clubs are in talks over a possible merger in order to rationalise a crowded Dublin Bay yacht racing calendar. Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) and the Royal Alfred Yacht Club (RAYC), whose origins date…
#raycbloomsdayregatta – Paul Keane of the Royal Irish Yacht Club beat 17 Lasers for Bloomsday honours at the Royal Alfred Regatta on Dublin Bay yesterday. The results for all competing classes are available to download below as xcel files.
