Irish Topper Sailing Dinghy News & Regatta Results
RYA Northern Ireland Youth Squads Shine at Celtic Cup in Pwllheli
14th February 2024 RYA Northern Ireland
Ten of Northern Ireland’s Topper and ILCA sailors travelled to Plas Heli in Pwllheli for the Celtic Cup earlier this month (3-4 February). This annual event sees the best youth and junior sailors from Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland compete…
Royal St George Yacht Club Introduces Topper Winter Training With Coach Toby Hudson Fowler
17th October 2023 Topper
The Royal St George Yacht Club has announced their 2023/2024 winter training for Topper dinghies. "The club is keen to build a fleet of the exciting and durable dinghy in anticipation of even greater demand for single-handed sailing", former Commodore Richard…
RYA Northern Ireland has hailed the success of its junior sailors in the recent Topper Worlds as well as the Irish and British Nationals in the region’s largest junior single-handed class. In early July, four out of the top five…
Rory Whyte of Dunmore East is a Junior “Sailor of the Month” for July
3rd August 2023 Sailor of the Month
Fifteen-year-old Rory Whyte of Waterford Harbour SC started his Topper 4.2 Worlds campaign at his alternative home club of RCYC at Crosshaven in less-than-perfect style, with an OCS in Race One. After such a score, the only way is up,…
Luke Simpson from County Antrim Yacht Club is Top Northern Ireland Sailor at Cork's Topper Worlds
1st August 2023 Topper
A famous Laser sailor in the Seventies, Ed Baird, is reputed to have said that spending time on the water was what counted. The 258 young sailors competing in the Royal Cork Yacht Club hosted Topper World Championships last week…
Ireland's Rory Whyte is Crowned 4.2 Topper World Champion at Royal Cork as Britain's Jones Claims 5.3 Title
28th July 2023 Topper
There was a home success in a breezy conclusion to the 2023 Topper World Championships at Royal Cork Yacht Club on Friday afternoon, when Ireland took gold and silver in the smaller 4.2 rig division, while the main rig title went…
Britain's Jones Leads Topper Worlds as Final Three Races Will Decide 2023 Champion in Cork Harbour
28th July 2023 Topper
Friday's three back-to-back races will decide the 2023 Topper 5.3 World Champion at Royal Cork Yacht Club. Although Great Britain's Alex Jones has established a winning point cushion of 12-points over six races (with two race wins), it is still all…
Great Britain's Alex Jones leads the International Topper World Championships after the first day of gold fleet racing in the 5.3 division. China's Shiyin Niu is lying second, with Britain's Rory Clow third in the Cork Harbour competition. The best…
After five qualification races sailed at the Topper World Championships, Royal Cork Yacht Club's Craig O'Neill (17) continues to lead the 5.3 fleet after day two. And in a further show of strength from the Ireland squad in the 190-boat fleet, County…
O'Neill Leads as Irish Sailors are Top of the Topper Worlds After Day One at Royal Cork Yacht Club
25th July 2023 Topper
After three qualification races sailed at the Topper World Championships at Royal Cork Yacht Club, the top three slots in the 5.3 fleets are all filled by Irish sailors, with Craig O'Neill from the host club having the best of…
The scene is set for this year’s Topper World Championships in Crosshaven as the Royal Cork Yacht Club (RCYC) has said this year’s competition is set to be the biggest yet, with 5,000 people set to attend the prestigious five-day…
Home Pride as Tom Driscoll Wins Topper 5.3 Nationals for Ballyholme Yacht Club
11th July 2023 Topper
It was worth waiting for. Belfast Lough having suffered the same fate as the first day of the Dun Laoghaire Regatta, the Irish Topper Nationals got underway a day late at Ballyholme on the north Down coast last Saturday afternoon…
Ballyholme Yacht Club’s online Baycam had a very prominent red line on Friday (7 July) with the southerly offshore wind forecast to reach 37 knots in the gusts, putting paid to the first day of the 2023 Topper Nationals. In…
Entries Now Open for Return of RYANI Youth Championships With New Title Sponsor
6th July 2023 RYA Northern Ireland
RYA Northern Ireland has issued the Notice of Race and opened entries for the 2023 edition of the RYANI F10 Marine Youth Championships, which will take place on the weekend of 9-10 September. Following the cancellation of last year’s championships…
Local Ace Luke Simpson is Topper 5.3 Traveller Winner at County Antrim Yacht Club
18th May 2023 Topper
Twenty-one Topper dinghy sailors from as far away as Dun Laoghaire and Sligo Yacht Club turned out for last weekend’s Topper Traveller hosted by County Antrim Yacht Club on the north shore of Belfast Lough. The sailors raced in two…
Northern Ireland Dinghy Sailor Success at Howth's Youth Sailing Nationals
18th April 2023 Youth Sailing
Whether it be football or sailing, the people of Larne in County Antrim have plenty to celebrate, for the football club won the Irish League Cup on 15th April and East Antrim Boat Club’s ILCA 6 sailor, Tom Coulter began…