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Dublin Bay Sailing Club Junior September Series

The Harbour Company is proud to sponsor the DBSC Junior Septembers series held on each Sunday in September. The series is open to junior sailors under 19 on 1 January 2006.

There are races in various classes for Mirror, Optimist, Laser Radial, Laser 4.7,PY, 420, Feva and Topper. There will be one series of up to 12 races in the Harbour or Scotsman's Bay with up to three races back to back each Sunday.

Junior sailors in Mirrors(© grahamgosling.com)

Steve Staunton visits the Harbour

Ireland manager Steve Staunton passed through the Harbour recently and received valuable advice from (l to r): Patrick Cahill Jnr, John Gibson, Steve Staunton, Richard Marley, Patrick Roche and Larry Whelan.

Steve Staunton visits the harbour

Almost 20 Days without rain

At 14:07 hours on Friday 28th July, the first drop of rain fell in the Harbour for almost twenty days. The last rainfall recorded before then was at 19:29 hours on Saturday 8th July 2006 . Comprehensive current and historic rainfall and other weather data available on the Harbour Company webste at www.dlharbour.ie.

Garry Kelly's degree

Garry and his wife Meg

Congratulations to Harbour Police Superintendent Gary Kelly who recently completed six years of study at Dublin Institute of Technology. Gary initially achieved a Diploma in Legal Studies between 2000 and 2002. Following this, he enrolled for a BSc degree programme in Management and Law in which he successfully graduated in May this year.

New sundial installed on East Pier

A new interactive analemmatic sundial has been put in place at Berth No 1 on the East Pier. The sundial was designed by Owen Deignan. Curator of the Baily Lighthouse Museum in Howth. It is cast in bronze and set in the pier surface.

The analemmatic sundial differs from an ordinary sundial in three respects:

• - it is elliptic in shape, rather than circular
• - it has hour points, as distinct from hour lines, to indicate the time of day
• - it does not have a fixed gnomon for throwing the all important shadow

The function of casting the shadow is carried out by the observer who stands erect with his or her feet astride the centre line of the calendar scale, on the appropriate date of the month and reads the time by the sun as indicated by his or her shadow.

The sun time thus found can be converted to Irish Standard Time by following the instructions given on the bronze plates set in the ground.

Historically the construction and use of early sundials go back to the dawn of civilisation. In fact, they were mankind's very first scientific instruments, predating even the invention of the wheel.

Sundial, East Pier Looking Northwards