'La Solitaire Optimist' Kept Sailors On Their Toes at Royal Cork's National Training Week
6th November 2023 Optimist
We were promised a storm! The only storm that materialised was the arrival of 130 Optimist sailors and their families in Crosshaven for the Annual National Training Week, as Afloat reports here. After two days of training, dodging big gusts…
Ireland's Eye Race Kicks off 49th Year of Howth Yacht Club's Winter Dinghy Racing
6th November 2023 Howth YC
The 2023 Howth Yacht Club Dinghy Frostbite kicked off with a twist this Sunday, as the race organisers decided to begin the series with a race around Ireland’s Eye. 24 boats hit the start line, with the usual ILCAs involved,…
Topper and ILCA Dinghy Youth Training Continues This Winter as Royal Cork Dinghy Frostbites Begin
6th November 2023 Royal Cork YC
Topper dinghy sailing is going strong this winter at Royal Cork Yacht Club, four months after the Munster Club successfully staged the massive 250-boat Topper World Championships in Crosshaven. On Sunday, both Topper and ILCA youth sailors hit the water…
O'Leary's Star Keelboat Leads Royal Cork's White Sails League (Photo Gallery)
5th November 2023 Royal Cork YC
Olympic helmsman Peter O'Leary and crewman Stephen O'Sullivan top the leaderboard of the IRC White Sails Division of the O'Leary Insurance Winter League 2023 in Cork Harbour on Sunday afternoon. After Storm Ciaran, there was sunshine, wind, flat seas and a neap…
IODAI's Optimist Dinghy National Training Week Dodges Storm Ciaran and Sails to Success at Royal Cork
5th November 2023 Optimist
The 130 Optimist sailors and their parents who descended on the Royal Cork Yacht Club in Crosshaven last week were full of trepidation, with storm Ciaran potentially leading to no sailing. As it happened, all four days of IODAI NTW…
Russell Bolger Of Dun Laoghaire Clear Winner At Junior National Championship At Schull
5th November 2023 Youth Sailing
A busy week of Team Racing focus with the Fastnet Marine & Outdoor Education Centre’s TR 3.6s - with much input from Schull Community College - concluded on Friday (November 3rd) after successfully handling a decidedly mixed bag of weather.…
The 2023 Rolex Sydney-Hobart Race on December 26th is now less than two months away, and with the entry list closed at 120 boats, we’re learning of more direct Irish involvement to add to Cian McCarthy and Sam Hunt of…
The transition from ultra-successful international junior sailing to youth and adult competition can be a tricky one, but ILCA-racing Gold Medal-winning multiple junior champion Eve McMahon of Howth found the perfect stepping-stone with the ILCA6 U21 Worlds at a breezy…
Ann Kirwan of National YC & Schull is Sailor of the Month (October) for Racing & Services to Sailing
1st November 2023 Sailor of the Month
The Golden Jubilee of the much-loved Ruffian 23 Class was well celebrated in 2023 at all its main centres in an enjoyable moveable feast, mostly in Ireland but culminating in Hong Kong in October with the triennial Inter-Port Championship in…
5o5 Sailors Top Monkstown Bay Sailing Club October Dinghy League
31st October 2023 Monkstown Bay Sailing Club
The October dinghy league finished in good weather on Saturday at Monkstown Bay Sailing Club in Cork Harbour with the 505 of helm Ewen Barry and crew John Coakley/Charles Dwyer, overall winners. Two Laser sailors filled the next positions in…
The Irish RS Aero fleet completed their 2023 Summer Season at the KODC Advisory-sponsored Eastern Championship held at Howth Yacht Club over the weekend. The sixteen competitors enjoyed classic Howth conditions with an Easterly breeze and waves providing challenging but…
Royal St. George Prepare for 75th Irish Team Racing Championship Anniversary
30th October 2023 Team Racing
In 1947 a group of sailors from Dun Laoghaire Harbour and West Kirby Sailing Club sat down in the bar in the RStGYC and devised rules to make inter-club racing more interesting. You could engage in ungentlemanly conduct to win…
Royal Cork Yacht Club Autumn League Prizewinners Awarded in Crosshaven
30th October 2023 Royal Cork YC
Five weeks of racing produced comprehensive winners in all four IRC divisions of Royal Cork Yacht Club's 2023 Autumn League sponsored by AIB, but points were tight for the rest of the podium, with second and third places in both…
Almost 90 junior and youth Royal St. George sailors came together on Friday evening in Dun Laoghaire Harbour on Dublin Bay to celebrate a season of sailing successes. Despite the formal dress and elegant surroundings of the RStGYC dining room,…
A Great Week of Racing for National Yacht Club Sailors in 29ers, Fireballs and Flying Fifteens
27th October 2023 National YC
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…
Yachts From Sligo and Waterford Will Race in Bumper Dublin Bay DBSC Turkey Shoot Series
26th October 2023 Turkey Shoot
Yachts from Sligo and Dunmore East will race in this year's popular DBSC 'Turkey Shoot' Winter Sailing Series that starts on Dublin Bay in less than a fortnight. With over a week before entries close, the popular event already has 45…