Irish Flying Fifteen Class Sailing News
National Yacht Club Duo Win Lough Neagh Sailing Club Flying Fifteen Event
24th April 2022 Flying Fifteen
Lough Neagh Sailing Club at Kinnego Marina, Northern Ireland hosted the first 2022 event for the Flying Fifteen class which was designed to support personal development of crews through practise starts followed by a series of races. Participants were welcomed…
Dun Laoghaire Flying Fifteen Fleet Stage Interactive Racing Rules Talk at Royal St. George Yacht Club
8th April 2022 Flying Fifteen
Dublin Bay Sailing Club's (DBSC) biggest one-design keelboat fleet staged a pre-season Interactive Racing Rules talk on April 1st with Irish International Judge Gordon Davies. The Flying Fifteens – a fleet that numbers 26 boats in the just-published 2022 DBSC yearbook…
No Prizes But Lough Neagh Sailing Club Offers Flying Fifteen Spring Shakedown Races
23rd March 2022 Flying Fifteen
Lough Neagh Sailing Club will be running Flying Fifteen one design keelboat starting practice sessions and three Windward-Leeward races on Saturday 9th April 2022 a shakedown event for the 2022 season. The Oxford Island event is open to all members…
Dun Laoghaire Flying Fifteens to Honour Sailors Past & Present at Royal St. George Yacht Club Trophy Awards Dinner
1st March 2022 Flying Fifteen
Former Flying Fifteen British Isles and Irish Champion Gerry Donleavy who died last year is one of three members of the Dun Laoghaire Flying Fifteen class to be honoured at the 2021 FF15 Trophy Awards Dinner in Dun Laoghaire Harbour…
The International Flying Fifteen 75th Anniversary Regatta, incorporating the 2022 European Championship and 75th Anniversary Race, will be hosted by Cowes Corinthian Yacht Club from 20 to 26 August 2022. Over the week before from 18 to 22 August, there…
The International Flying Fifteen 75th Anniversary Regatta, incorporating the 2022 European Championship and 75th Anniversary Race will be hosted by Cowes Corinthian Yacht Club 20th to 26th August 2022. Uffa Fox designed the Flying Fifteen in late 1947. There are…
Due to the increasing Covid numbers, the Dun Laoghaire Flying Fifteen Fleet AGM was moved at relatively short notice from a person-to-person meeting in the DMYC to an online Zoom meeting last Thursday night. Given that there are thirty-plus Flying…
Dumpleton & Hickey Are Flying Fifteen Frostbite Winners at the National Yacht Club
8th November 2021 Flying Fifteen
Ken Dumpleton and Joe Hickey of the host club were winners of the five-week-long Flying Fifteen Frostbite Series at Dun Laoghaire Harbour. As Afloat reported previously, sixteen boats are entered, with an average of 11 competing each weekend. Dumpleton and…
Dumpleton Leads as National Yacht Club's Flying Fifteen Frostbite Series Concludes This Weekend
5th November 2021 Flying Fifteen
This weekend sees the conclusion of the five-week-long Flying Fifteen Frostbite Series at Dun Laoghaire Harbour. Sixteen boats are entered, with an average of 11 competing each weekend. PRO Keith Poole and his race team have provided great courses and…
Lough Derg Yacht Club Serves Up Full Set of Results For Four Keelboat Classes
21st October 2021 Inland Waterways
The annual October Freshwater Keelboat Regatta at Dromineer, (hosted by Lough Derg Yacht Club and staged last weekend) has been no stranger to hyper-strong winds in times past. But in 2021's unusually gentle Autumn, it provided two to three days…
SB20s, Flying Fifteens, Dragons & Squibs Expected for October's Lough Derg Yacht Club Keelboat Regatta
6th October 2021 Inland Waterways
Lough Derg Yacht Club in County Tipperary will welcome one design visitors back to Dromineer for the Keelboat regatta on the weekend of 15th to 17th of October. Four fleets are expected to the lake, with the biggest likely to…
The National Yacht Club and the Irish dinghy and one design scene are mourning the loss of sailing stalwart Gerry Donleavy of Dun Laoghaire Harbour, who died at the weekend. Donleavy, a long-standing member of the NYC, won the 1988…
Biggs & Evans in 'Checkmate XIX' Claim Flying Fifteen East Coast Victory at Dun Laoghaire
19th September 2021 Flying Fifteen
Despite an overnight cushion of six points, Nigel Biggs and Peter Evans of Howth Yacht Club were chased all the way in today's final races of the Flying Fifteen Irish East Coast Championships off Dun Laoghaire Harbour. Five races were…
Howth Yacht Club's Biggs & Evans Leading at Flying Fifteen East Coast Championships on Dublin Bay
18th September 2021 Flying Fifteen
With three results in the top five, Nigel Biggs and Peter Evans from Howth Yacht Club lead a buoyant 23-boat Flying Fifteen East Coast Championships after three races sailed in light winds and strong tides on Dublin Bay. Racing on…
'Mike Wazowski' Wins Dun Laoghaire Flying Fifteen Captain's Prize
13th September 2021 Flying Fifteen
Having experienced a shortened season in 2020 because of the immediate impact of Covid, the 2020 Flying Fifteen Class Captain in Dun Laoghaire offered to serve a second term and on Saturday past, Neil Colin, Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club…
With the spotlight on the ICRA Championship in Dublin Bay this weekend, normal Bay racing saw a fleet of 17 Flying Fifteens turn out for DBSC club racing in a stiff southeast breeze of c15 knots. As this was the…
