21 teams are racing in Cork Week's Coastal Class which is proving to be one of the most competitive classes. Robert Rendell’s Grand Soleil 44 Samatom from Howth YC leads the class after winning today’s Harbour Race by just 32…

Just one race was completed on day two of Cork Week for the 44-strong 1720 Class European Championships. Light and shifty winds added to the complexity on the water as Race Officer Ciaran McSweeney and his race management team were obliged…

British Army Royal Engineers on the J109 Trojan have won the Fastnet race of the Beaufort Cup returning to Cork Harbour after a 30-hour race. Six boats competed in the first race of the Cup for International Inter-Service Sailing Regatta,…

Classic racing is back at Volvo Cork Week and Royal Cork Yacht Club's Harold Cudmore was on the helm of the Cork Harbour One Design Jap for a victory on the first day. 1968 French entry Bilou-Belle Tina from the Atlantic Yacht Club…

Peter Dunlop's former ISORA champion J109 Mojito leads Volvo Cork Week's 21-boat IRC coastal class after the first race of the series.  Second is Paul & Deirdre Tingle's X-yacht Alpaca. Round Ireland race rivalries from June are renewed for third and fourth places…

Cork Week's Beaufort Cup fleet set off from Haulbowline Island for the 120nm Fastnet Race. As Afloat reported previously, the six-boat fleet was escorted out of Cork Harbour by Irish Navy Ship, LE Roisin. Nine hours after the race start…

Brand new to Volvo Cork Week is the Cape 31 Class racing for their inaugural Irish National Championships in Cork Harbour Designed by Wicklow’s Mark Mills the pocket-rocket class started their life in Table Bay Cape Town, South Africa, expanded…

Sam Laidlaw’s Quarter Tonner BLT from the Royal Yacht Squadron dominated IRC Three of Volvo Cork Week Regatta today, scoring three straight bullets. Marcus Ryan’s Irish youth team racing J/24 HeadCase (that won overall in the UK at the weekend)…

16 teams in Cork Week IRC Two raced on a laid course in Ringabella Bay, three J/109s swapped the lead during the three races on Day One. Barry Cunningham’s Royal Irish YC team racing Chimaera won a hotly contested first…

Louise Makin & Chris Jones’ J/111 Journeymaker 11 from the Royal Southern YC won today’s first Volvo Cork Week race in IRC One by just under a minute from Team Knight Build racing J/112 Happy Daize from the RORC. Jonathan…

Current 1720 European champions Robbie English, Aoife & Ross McDonald from Royal Cork YC / Howth YC lead after the firsthree races sailed at Volvo Cork Week. Despite the balmy air temperature, RCYC's own sportsboat class’s return was marked by dense fog on the…

The first race of Cork Week 2022 got underway this morning (Monday, July 11) in light airs and slack water from the Naval base at Haulbowline in Cork Harbour. Royal Cork Race Officer Clem McElligott positioned at the base's Signal…

Volvo Cork Week kicked off with a fun-filled Family Day on Sunday that was preceded by an official opening by Royal Cork Yacht Club Admiral Kieran O'Connell and Taoiseach Micheál Martin TD, and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney TD. The…

Irish J/24s have won seven out of the eight races in the weekend's UK Nationals at Plymouth, with the all-Ireland-crewed Headcase taking six bullets and the overall title to add to her recent success in toppingthe class in Kiel in…

After a four-year hiatus, it took a long time coming, but now the fleet has arrived, and there is great excitement in Cork Harbour for Monday's first races of Cork Week 2022 Regatta for a fleet of almost 200 boats.…

It may seem a bit odd to talk about Volvo Cork Week 2022, which gets going this weekend, as being “the exuberant expression of the spirit of Cork sailing”, when any detailed study of the hugely-varied entry list eloquently affirms…