All racing cancelled - eventually

The DBSC had cancelled all dinghy racing before most people got to the clubs today, citing the strong winds. There were indeed gusts of 30+ knots.

However, with Paul Keane's intrepid leadership a hardy trio went out for a blast anyway. Keane, Sheehy and Mattie O'Dowd headed out with single handers to find themselves joined by the even more intrepid John Chambers - braving the conditions in a foiling moth!

John stayed inside the walls but the other three went out to watch the MOD70s.

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The sight of the capsized Spindrift sent the three single handers off upwind for a bit of a blast before re-entering the harbor to find John Chambers still practicing in the Moth.

Later, Theo Lyttle and Sean Craig went out for a blast too.  According to the wind graph there were 35+ knot gusts out there.....

But nothing stops Dun Laoghaire dinghy sailors.