About

Dublin Bay Sailing Club is the largest yacht-racing organisation on the Irish east coast. With seventeen hundred members, the Club provides regular weekly racing for upwards of 400 yachts, ranging from ocean-going forty footers to small dinghies for juniors.

The Club operates from Dun Laoghaire, a major marine recreational centre and ferry port six miles to the south of Dublin. The members are drawn for the most part from the four local yacht clubs and Dun Laoghaire Marina but visiting yachts can participate in racing if they complete the Club's temporary yacht entry and membership form and pay a small fee. Visiting yachts may also compete in the Club's Cruiser Challenge, held every year over the third weekend of August.

Apart from a Starter's Hut on Dun Laoghaire West Pier, the Club possesses no premises; moorings - the usual onshore facilities are provided by the local yacht clubs. The new Dun Laoghaire Marina, situated in the northwestern side of the Harbour, now accommodates a growing number of racing yachts.

Racing usually starts at the end of April and continues up to the end of September. Mid-week races for keelboats takes place on Thursday evenings, from late April to the end of August. Keelboat crews and dinghy sailors race on Tuesday evenings. On Saturday afternoons (April to September) racing is provided for both keelboats and dinghies. Keelboat races start either on fixed lines on the seaward side of Dun Laoghaire West Pier or from a committee boat stationed not far from the harbour mouth.

Courses are designed around fixed marks in Dublin Bay, in an area of nearly 40 square miles, extending from Salthill and Seapoint on the western side of Bay to near the Burford Bank on the east. All races finish at the Club's fixed lines at the West Pier but may be be shortened at the committee boat if necessary.

On Saturdays afternoons,two classes (Dragons) race on Olympic-style courses, joined occasionally by the Ruffian and Glen classes. The new Laser SB3 class races on the same course on Sunday afternoons.

Dinghy racing takes place on Olympic-type courses on Saturdays in Seapoint Bay, on the northwest side of the West Pier and,on Tuesday evenings in Scotsman's Bay, on the seaward side of Dun Laoghaire East Pier.
 

Correspondence to Honorary Secretary
 

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Dublin 18.

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