Sovereign's Cup Sailing. News and Results from the Kinsale YC Event
Howth J99 'Snapshot' Leads Class One at the Sovereign's Cup after Day Two
25th June 2021 Sovereign's Cup
It's all change at the top of the leaderboard in IRC classes One, Two and Three after four races sailed at the Sovereigns' Cup in Kinsale today. The new Howth Yacht Club J99 design of Michael and Richard Evans has outwitted the…
Phelan's Jump Juice Leaps into Coastal Division Lead of the Sovereign's Cup
24th June 2021 Sovereign's Cup
Conor Phelan's Custom Ker 37 Jump Juice has taken the lead of the biggest fleet on the 2021 O'Leary Insurances Sovereign's Cup on day two and now leads the 17-boat coastal division by two points. Second overall is overnight leader, Bob…
Rendell's New Samatom of Howth Takes First Win on Sovereign's Cup Coastal Course
23rd June 2021 Sovereign's Cup
Although Conor Doyle's Xp 50 Freya from the host club was the clear 'on the water' winner on the Sovereign's Cup Coastal Course today, it was Bob Rendell's new Samatom, a Grand Soleil 44, from Howth YC that took first place…
Kelly's J109 Storm from Howth Leads Sovereign's Cup IRC One at Kinsale
23rd June 2021 Sovereign's Cup
After the first two races in IRC Class One, Pat Kelly's Storm from Howth Yacht Club and Rush Sailing Club leads the 14-boat division of the O'Leary Insurances Sovereign's Cup Regatta at Kinsale. Kelly is five points clear at the top…
Light Winds to Start Kinsale's Sovereign's Cup Regatta But More Breeze on the Way
23rd June 2021 Sovereign's Cup
Sovereign's Cup competitors can expect a mix of light to medium conditions over the next four days at Kinsale Yacht Club tempting pundits to predict that it might be the all-round performance of cruiser-racers types such as the J109 (that…
Sovereign's Cup Coastal Fleet Will Be Biggest of Kinsale Yacht Club's Race Week
20th June 2021 Sovereign's Cup
The coastal fleet is the largest of the four fleets totalling 62 boats that will take to the water on Wednesday for the 2021 O'Leary Insurance Sovereign's Cup off Kinsale. Recent Dun Laoghaire to Dingle winner Nieulargo will battle again…
Kinsale Yacht Club's Sovereign's Cup is Ready to Sail Next Week with Hot Fleet of 62 Boats
18th June 2021 Sovereign's Cup
Less is more for a quality fleet now gathering for next week's O'Leary Insurance Group Sovereign's Cup, one of the biggest regattas on the 2021 Irish sailing calendar. A fleet of 62 boats will be in action at Kinsale from…
Green Light for June's O'Leary Insurance Sovereign's Cup Regatta at Kinsale
3rd May 2021 Sovereign's Cup
Kinsale Yacht Club has confirmed its O'Leary Insurance Group Sovereign's Cup from 23rd to 26th June 2021. "Having considered the recent announcement on the easing of government restrictions and after consulting all stakeholders, we have agreed that we can hold…
'All Systems Go' for Irish Sailing Season But Regatta Organisers Require More Detail From Sport Ireland
30th April 2021 Coronavirus and Boating
Worry over if there will be a 2021 sailing season at all has been replaced by hope after the Government outlined its latest path out of COVID-19 last night. There has been overwhelming optimism following the news of the accelerated…
O'Leary Insurance Group Sovereign's Cup 2021 Entries Exceed Target of 50 Boats
1st February 2021 Sovereign's Cup
The number of entries for June's O'Leary Insurance Group Sovereign's Cup exceeded the target of 50 boats over the weekend. As Afloat reported last month, there was an immediate uptake for the even when entries. The current entry list is…
In less than two weeks since registration opened for the O'Leary Insurance Group Sovereign's Cup 2021, 30 entries were received. The speed at which the entries have come in is best exemplified by Denis and Annamarie Murphy's entry of Nieulargo…
Registration is now open for the 2021 O'Leary Insurance Group Sovereigns Cup which will take place 23rd to 26th June in Kinsale Yacht Club, click here to enter online. Participants will sail in Classes 0, 1, 2, Coastal and White…
Sovereign's Cup 2021 Targets 50 Boat Fleet: Revised Plan & Notice Of Race Issued by Kinsale Yacht Club
17th December 2020 Sovereign's Cup
The details of a revised plan for the O'Leary Insurance Group Sovereign's Cup 2021 have been published by Kinsale Yacht Club together with a Notice of Race (NOR). The Notice of Race is downloadable below as a PDF document (2mb) Sovereign's…
Kinsale Yacht Club Announce O’Leary Sponsorship is Back on Board for Sovereigns Cup 2021
23rd July 2020 Sovereign's Cup
Kinsale Yacht Club is welcoming welcome back the O’Leary Insurance Group as headline sponsors of its Sovereigns Cup 2021. The other major regatta news from Kinsale this week is that Anthony O’Neill has been appointed Regatta Director for next edition.…
Sovereign's Cup 'Portcullis Trophy' Win is Another South Coast Victory for Mayo X332, X-Rated
3rd July 2019 Sovereign's Cup
A 'late' West Coast campaign won the prestigious Portcullis Trophy at the Sovereign's Cup for skipper John Gordon and the crew of his X332 X-Rated from Mayo Sailing Club last week. Afloat takes a look at how this 'no rockstar' boat…
Greystones’s Frank Whelan is June’s “Sailor of the Month (Inshore)”
2nd July 2019 Sailor of the Month
The Greystones-based Grand Soleil 44 Eleuthera (Frank Whelan) is a byword for enthusiasm, both for the dedication of her amateur crew in preparing the boat for the season, and in the way her owner/skipper and his top lieutenants lead them…