Irish Flying Fifteen Class Sailing News
The 2023 DBSC season was a mixed bag of weather for everyone and the Flying Fifteens were no exception. We had Saturdays when we were blown off due to too much wind or dangerous seas only to find the following…
Irish Flying Fifteens, one of the country's biggest one design keelboat classes, will be subject to a qualification protocol for the 2025 class World Championships in Weymouth, England if more than if more boats want to compete on the Dorset coast…
It didn’t look very promising when the Flying Fifteen competitors arrived at the National Yacht Club at Dun Laoghaire Harbour on Saturday as the sea was flat calm with only an odd hint of wind and none forecast till later…
At home... Last weekend provided plenty of action on the back of a stormy Friday, with many club sailors enjoying a great weekend of training and racing. Fireballs blast along on Dublin Bay at the end of season regatta The…
The Flying Fifteen class in Dun Laoghaire started its annual Frostbite series, which has been going since 1979, with PRO Keith Poole and his team getting in two races in ideal conditions. The tide was flooding, and the wind was…
At the end of a busy season for many clubs in Dun Laoghaire Harbour and along the west coast, Lough Derg Yacht Club played host to the Fresh Water Keelboat Regatta last weekend, drawing a fleet of over 60 boats…
With the Flying Fifteen national title going west for the first time this year, the 2023 season just finished on a high for the class's burgeoning Connemara fleet, with Galway boats taking first and second in Lough Derg Yacht Club's…
Sailing for sport in Connemara has long tended to be in a world of its own with the local traditional craft, but 2023 is very much a breakout year. One of our “Sailors of the Month” for July was the…
After eight races sailed at the Flying Fifteen British National Championships at Weymouth, sole Irish competitor Shane MacCarthy from Greystones Sailing Club with Richard Rigg finished overall. MacCarthy, who counted four top ten results, travelled to the Dorset coast, having won the previous…
After four races sailed at the Flying Fifteen British National Championships at Weymouth, sole Irish competitor Shane MacCarthy from Greystones Sailing Club with Richard Rigg is lying seventh overall. MacCarthy travelled to the Dorset coast, having won last weekend's Irish East…
The last “salt-water” regatta for the Irish Flying Fifteen fleet was hosted this past weekend by the National Yacht Club in Dun Laoghaire. Early in the week beforehand, the forecast was for a robust Saturday and a more genteel Sunday…….and…
The National Yacht Club's Shane MacCarthy, sailing with visiting English crew Richard Rigg, leads a breezy edition of the Flying Fifteen East Coast Championships on Dublin Bay. With northeasterly winds gusting to 25 knots, the duo count a 3, 1,1…
With only two weeks gone since the last Flying Fifteen regatta, the Nationals, hosted in great style by County Antrim Yacht Club in Belfast Lough, the penultimate regatta of the summer season takes place this weekend on Dublin Bay, hosted…
A very successful Flying Fifteen National Championship with 24 boats concluded on Sunday 3rd September in Belfast Lough with a win for the cousins Niall & Ronan O’Briain (4092) from Flying Fifteens Chonamara, after they affected a 10-point swing in…
Saturday, 2nd September, dawned windless on Belfast Lough for the second day of the Irish Flying Fifteen National Championships at County Antrim Yacht Club. It stayed that way sufficiently long for the Race Officer to fly a postponement flag ashore.…
Two races were sailed on Friday at the Flying Fifteen Nationals, hosted by County Antrim Yacht Club on Belfast Lough. Wind that varied from 10 - 15 knots from ENE was the order of the day with a lumpy sea.…