Irish Flying Fifteen Class Sailing News
Dun Laoghaire Harbour Flying Fifteens Celebrate the 2023 Season (Photo Gallery)
5th January 2024 Flying Fifteen
The 2023 DBSC season was a mixed bag of weather for everyone and the Flying Fifteens were no exception. We had Saturdays when we were blown off due to too much wind or dangerous seas only to find the following…
Irish Flying Fifteens Qualification Series for 2025 World Championships is Published
3rd January 2024 Flying Fifteen
Irish Flying Fifteens, one of the country's biggest one design keelboat classes, will be subject to a qualification protocol for the 2025 class World Championships in Weymouth, England if more than if more boats want to compete on the Dorset coast…
Green and MacCarthy Win Flying Fifteen Frostbite Series at Dun Laoghaire Harbour
13th November 2023 Flying Fifteen
It didn’t look very promising when the Flying Fifteen competitors arrived at the National Yacht Club at Dun Laoghaire Harbour on Saturday as the sea was flat calm with only an odd hint of wind and none forecast till later…
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…
Green and MacCarthy Lead Flying Fifteen Frostbites at Dun Laoghaire
24th October 2023 Flying Fifteen
The Flying Fifteen class in Dun Laoghaire started its annual Frostbite series, which has been going since 1979, with PRO Keith Poole and his team getting in two races in ideal conditions. The tide was flooding, and the wind was…
Lough Derg Yacht Club Pulled Out All the Stops For Its Annual Freshwater Regatta
20th October 2023 Inland Waterways
At the end of a busy season for many clubs in Dun Laoghaire Harbour and along the west coast, Lough Derg Yacht Club played host to the Fresh Water Keelboat Regatta last weekend, drawing a fleet of over 60 boats…
More Connemara Flying Fifteen Success at Lough Derg Yacht Club Freshwater Keelboat Regatta
15th October 2023 Flying Fifteen
With the Flying Fifteen national title going west for the first time this year, the 2023 season just finished on a high for the class's burgeoning Connemara fleet, with Galway boats taking first and second in Lough Derg Yacht Club's…
Niall & Ronan O’Briain of Connemara are “Sailors of the Month (Inshore)” for September
1st October 2023 Sailor of the Month
Sailing for sport in Connemara has long tended to be in a world of its own with the local traditional craft, but 2023 is very much a breakout year. One of our “Sailors of the Month” for July was the…
After eight races sailed at the Flying Fifteen British National Championships at Weymouth, sole Irish competitor Shane MacCarthy from Greystones Sailing Club with Richard Rigg finished overall. MacCarthy, who counted four top ten results, travelled to the Dorset coast, having won the previous…
Ireland's MacCarthy and Rigg Lying Seventh at Flying Fifteen British Nationals in Weymouth
23rd September 2023 Flying Fifteen
After four races sailed at the Flying Fifteen British National Championships at Weymouth, sole Irish competitor Shane MacCarthy from Greystones Sailing Club with Richard Rigg is lying seventh overall. MacCarthy travelled to the Dorset coast, having won last weekend's Irish East…
MacCarthy and Rigg Win Flying Fifteen East Coast Championship of Two Halves
18th September 2023 Flying Fifteen
The last “salt-water” regatta for the Irish Flying Fifteen fleet was hosted this past weekend by the National Yacht Club in Dun Laoghaire. Early in the week beforehand, the forecast was for a robust Saturday and a more genteel Sunday…….and…
MacCarthy and Rigg Lead Breezy Flying Fifteen East Coasts at Dun Laoghaire
16th September 2023 Flying Fifteen
The National Yacht Club's Shane MacCarthy, sailing with visiting English crew Richard Rigg, leads a breezy edition of the Flying Fifteen East Coast Championships on Dublin Bay. With northeasterly winds gusting to 25 knots, the duo count a 3, 1,1…
Flying Fifteens to Contest Eastern Championships at National Yacht Club this Weekend
15th September 2023 Flying Fifteen
With only two weeks gone since the last Flying Fifteen regatta, the Nationals, hosted in great style by County Antrim Yacht Club in Belfast Lough, the penultimate regatta of the summer season takes place this weekend on Dublin Bay, hosted…
A very successful Flying Fifteen National Championship with 24 boats concluded on Sunday 3rd September in Belfast Lough with a win for the cousins Niall & Ronan O’Briain (4092) from Flying Fifteens Chonamara, after they affected a 10-point swing in…
National Yacht Club's Mathews and Poole Lead at the Flying Fifteen National Championships
2nd September 2023 Flying Fifteen
Saturday, 2nd September, dawned windless on Belfast Lough for the second day of the Irish Flying Fifteen National Championships at County Antrim Yacht Club. It stayed that way sufficiently long for the Race Officer to fly a postponement flag ashore.…
D'Arcy and McClemon Lead Flying Fifteen Nationals at County Antrim Yacht Club
1st September 2023 Flying Fifteen
Two races were sailed on Friday at the Flying Fifteen Nationals, hosted by County Antrim Yacht Club on Belfast Lough. Wind that varied from 10 - 15 knots from ENE was the order of the day with a lumpy sea.…
