Irish Sailing and Regatta Race Results and News
There will be three offshore races before this year's Round Ireland race, an initiative aimed at driving numbers up for the classic biennial fixutre but also at encouraging boats out of Dublin Bay to try offshore sailing. There is a…
Afloat.ie: Hallmark Top Boat at OneSails McWilliam West Coast Superleague 09
20th November 2009 Racing
The Onesails McWilliam West Coast Super League – an extracted series of six events on the West Coast of Ireland – is organised by the West of Ireland Offshore Racing Association (WIORA) with the help of various clubs involved: Galway…
The Christmas RC Laser League starts next Sunday at 2pm at the National YC with 3 practice races followed at 2.30pm with up to 8 counting races for the series up to 20th December. The Rugby international and the final…
The second event of the Irish University Sailing Associaton (IUSA) calendar saw 28 teams head to Schull for the IUSA Southerns on the 14th and 15th of November. The event was hosted by the Fastnet Marine Outdoor Education Centre ,…
The Irish Match Racing Association (IMRA) is looking to gauge the level of interest in a 2 day match racing clinic most likely on Jan 16/17. Bill O'Hara (race officer for the Volvo Ocean Race will chair the clinic with…
The second day of the RCYC-hosted CH Marine Winter League saw a grey November day, patchy sunshine and a definite brisk SSW breeze, according to Claire Bateman. The pre-start manoeuvres made an impressive sight, and photographer Bob Bateman was there…
Vivion Kennedy and Mervyn Dyke lifted the Waterhouse Shield this weekend for the most successful Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) yacht in handicap classes. The result was achieved in Cruisers 2 class in the yacht Jawesome II. Among other presentations…
Congratulations to Foynes Yacht Club, winner of the ISA Yachtsman Euromarine National Rib Challenge trophy for 2009, holding off nine other teams for the prize. This is a good result for a club which decided recently to invest their time…
Remarkable conditions greeted competitors at the start line for the first days racing in the CH Marine Winter League at the Royal Cork Yacht Club. A light northerly breeze, clear blue skies and an excellent turnout of 32-boats gave Race…
Action from Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, and good conditions on Wednesday (4th October) saw some racing but – as is the way of these things – the wind died down before the windsurfers got a result. Thursday was more of the…
October's ISAF open match racing world rankings sees a big improvement for the Irish. There are now 34 ranked Irish match racers compared to a dozen this time last year. Ireland now has a top 100 match racer in John…
Handicap racing for multihulls in Cork Harbour produced fast sailing yesterday in the final race of the October league. Double handed Hobie Tigers raced with the single-handed A class. Depending on weather conditions racing alternated between windward leeward courses inside…
Sixteen knot south westerly winds brought Royal Cork's October League to a close this afternoon. The spectacular final two races saw Blondie hold her overall lead in class zero. Bob Bateman's photos are over the fold.
Italian students have become the 2009 Student Yachting World Cup Champions. Defending champions Cork Institute of Technology finished fifth overall and University of Limerick 10th in the 12-boat event after yesterday's final rounds. The race committee had a plan to…
Cork's Eamon Rohan has the upper hand, 3.5 points clear of Dave Dwyer's Marinercove.ie on 15 points in tomorrow's last races of the O'Flynn Exhams October league in Cork Harbour. His superbly turned-out Blondie leads class zero, and is already…
Day Five: Today in Marseille was the first day in which there was no postponement of racing. The wind had filled in nicely overnight and there was a steady 6 to 10 knots across the bay of Marseille awaiting the…
