Ireland's Developing Sailing Season of 2021 Is Like a Gently Rising Tide 26th June 2021 Ding-dong at Foynes – Gala Racing (Simon McGibney, Foynes YC) and Lola (Luke McBride, Sligo YC) trying their own side of the beat in search of success in last weekend's J/24 Southerns at Foynes on the Shannon Estuary. Alas, it was not to be – this wasn't the win move that seems to be promised here Credit: Foynes YC The National YC's Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race of Wednesday, June 9th – just two days after such things became permissible on June 7th - may have been hailed here as "a spectacular pillar event to launch the 2021 Irish sailing season out of the pandemic penumbra". But the truth is that the season currently getting under way is more like a gentle tide flooding into a winding and shallow creek, rather than a sudden eruption of activity across a wide front.