Irish Offshore Sailing News. Training Courses, Lessons, & Race Results
The 19th Palermo-Montecarlo yacht race sets sail from Sicily’s capital tomorrow (Tuesday, 20 August), concluding the International Maxi Association’s 2023-24 Mediterranean Maxi Offshore Challenge, which started with last autumn’s Rolex Middle Sea Race. While the race is typically a light…
Franck Cammas, the French sailing champion, has earned another important accolade as he is named the winner of the 2024 Magnus ‘Mange’ Olsson Prize. Cammas has won just about every offshore yacht racing title in the books, several of them…
Mayo Sailing Club's Joan Mulloy has signed up for the 2024 Double Handed World Offshore Championships in September. That adds to a busy sailing schedule as she is also looking forward to the next stage of 'The Famous Project' in…
Mordaunt's Irish Crew on 'Tschuss 2' Set Gotland Runt Offshore Race Speed Record and May Yet Win Overall
2nd July 2024 Offshore
An Irish crew onboard the Volvo 70 Tschuss 2 has broken Sweden's Gotland Runt Offshore Race speed record in what is s the world's largest annual ocean race. Ireland's Johnny Mordaunt, Simon Johnson, Cian Guilfoyle and Sonia Zugel were onboard the boat…
SSE Renewables Round Ireland Race Shares Global Camaraderie Of Classic Distance Races
29th June 2024 W M Nixon
Our header photo really says it all. It was 2011 when Rives Potts' now four times Bermuda Race winner Carina rounded the Fastnet Rock in conditions a whole world away from the murky early morning eleven hours earlier, when George…
INSS ‘graduates’ Luke Galvin and Eoin McKeon recorded strong performances in the 53rd running of the biennial Newport Bermuda Race which finished earlier this week. Bowman on OC86, a Maxz86, Luke was second across the finish line in the early…
Every time I hear the beginnings of Sinatra singing The Summer Wind, it's immediately accompanied by personal visions of classic American-designed yachts by Sparkman & Stephens, John Alden, PhilipRhodes or - best of all - Jim McCurdy, sailing serenely in…
The North Channel Race is a well established offshore event on the Clyde Cruising Club racing calendar, and it was great to see such strong support from the RC35 fleet, writes Jim Dervin. After an 8pm start off Inverkip Marina…
162 boats set sail from Newport, racing towards the Gulf Stream and kicking off the 53rd Newport Bermuda Race. For this first time in its 118-year history, the American race set sail from Fort Adams in Newport. As Afloat reported…
The Famous Project’s All-Female Crew Launch Their Maxi Trimaran in France
31st May 2024 Women in Sailing
Ireland’s Joan Mulloy and Pamela Lee were on hand alongside their teammates in The Famous Project to see the launch of their Maxi trimaran IDEC SPORT in front of the Multiplast shipyard in Vannes, France on Friday (31 May). After…
Top Solo Sailors Compete in The Transat CIC Race Across The North Atlantic
28th April 2024 Solo Sailing
The Transat CIC, the legendary solo race across the North Atlantic, commenced on Sunday with 48 sailors setting sail from Lorient, Brittany towards New York. Blessed with sunny skies, cumulus clouds, and a decent 10-15kts of Westerly wind, the sailors…
The Famous Project Complete Their First All-Female Atlantic Crossing
25th April 2024 Women in Sailing
The Famous Project crew have completed on their first all-female ocean passage across the Atlantic on their MOD70 The Famous Project Limosa. The seven-strong crew — which included Ireland’s own Joan Mulloy — arrived in Portimao, Portugal from Antigua on…
Maiden has won the McIntyre Ocean Globe Race, taking first in IRC handicap rankings against a 14-strong fleet of very experienced and committed sailors. And Maiden’s sailors have also been written into the history books as the first ever all-women…
Royal Ocean Racing Club’s Griffin Training Scheme Focused On The Channel Hot Spot
13th April 2024 W M Nixon
With the RORC’s new Griffin Project for training young sailors recently launched in a blaze of publicity, there have been the usual demands that something similar should be delivered for Ireland. But Sailing on Saturday would suggest that, over the…
The French legend Pen Duick VI FR (14), skippered by the indomitable Marie Tabarly, has taken provisional line honours in the final leg of the inaugural McIntyre Ocean Globe Race – and in the days ahead could potentially win the…
The International Association of Cape Horners (IACH) has announced that nominations for the 2024 Cape Horn Hall of Fame Awards are now open. The awards aim to honour the most accomplished sailors who have sailed around the challenging Cape Horn,…