Irish Flying Fifteen Class Sailing News
Initial Challenge to Race Officer Overcome to Produce Excellent DBSC Flying Fifteen Race
7th June 2024 Flying Fifteen
Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) Race Officer John McNeilly certainly had a challenge on his hands on Thursday night past as Mother Nature decided she initially wasn’t going to play ball with his plans for the one-design fleet, SB20s, Flying…
On the first blustery night of the 2024 DBSC Thursday night series, there appeared to be some reticence about going on the water and that was to be expected in a week in which the dinghies didn’t get out on…
National Yacht Club's MacCarthy and McNally Reign as Irish Flying Fifteens Go West
28th May 2024 Flying Fifteen
The first provincial regatta of the 2024 Irish Flying Fifteen season saw the fleet congregate in what has become, in a very short space of time, a very popular venue. In 2022, a small group of Dun Laoghaire Flying Fifteens…
National Champions Lead Flying Fifteen Western Championships in Connemara
25th May 2024 Flying Fifteen
National Champions Niall and Ronan O'Briain of Flying Fifteen Chonamara lead the 15-boat Flying Fifteen Western Championships after two races sailed in overcast and cool conditions with intermittent rain off the Galway coast. The National Yacht Club's Shane McCarthy and…
With five Dun Laoghaire-based Flying Fifteens away in France at the European Championships, a turnout of fourteen boats for last night’s DBSC Thursday race is indicative of the strength of the Class across the waterfront and even at that there…
Six Irish boats are competing at the Flying Fifteen European Championships starting on Thursday (March 9th) at Crozon Morgat in Brittany. With crews also from France, Spain, Belgium, and the usual UK contenders, it promises to be an exciting four-day event.…
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…