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Dublin Bay Mermaid

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Dublin Bay Mermaid

The Dublin Bay Mermaid is a one-design wooden sailing dinghy originally designed for sailing in Dublin Bay.

It is a 17 foot half-decked centreboard boat rigged as a Bermuda sloop, designed for the Dublin Bay Sailing Club in 1932 by John B. Kearney. The class still races in Dublin Bay. The national class association is the Mermaid Sailing Association

The table below lists the pre-1940 boats with their original names are. The boats were not completed in numerical order as sail numbers were not allocated until some years after the first Mermaids were launched.:

Mermaids

See table below for full list of boats. An * indicates that the number originally used on an earlier boat, since wrecked or broken up. 'W' and 'B' after a number indicates wrecked or broken up respectively. A name or names in brackets indicates earlier name(s). Boats highlighted in bold have won the National Championship.

References

Dublin Bay Mermaid Wikipedia