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Dun Laoghaire Harbour's Irish National Sailing School Video of Summer Sailing
7th September 2015 How To Sail
Dun Laoghaire's Irish National Sailing School has declared 'Summer 2015 a blast' – despite the weather. In fact, the country's biggest sailing school says the summer's weather was great for sailing. The video clip made by the school's Instructors shows…
Hundreds of reusable plastic bottles are being distributed to participants in St Michael’s Rowing Club 2015 (SMRC) Urban Run on Sunday October 11th as part a campaign to encourage more people, particularly those engaged in outdoor pursuits and sports activities,…
West Kirby Win Inaugural Elmo Team Racing Trophy at Royal St. George Yacht Club
7th September 2015 Team Racing
West Kirby Sailing Club narrowly beat the RSGYC Green of the home club 2-1 in the final to win the first Elmo team racing Trophy. 8 teams of under 18 sailors took part, quickly getting to grips with the equally…
Day two of the Optimist Leinster championship at Howth Yacht Club dawned with a lot less wind than the previous one, posing difficulties for sailors and race officers alike. Launching was slightly delayed as the optimistic sailors waited for the…
Download the overall results below as a pdf file
Volunteer lifeboat crew with Dun Laoghaire RNLI, Rory Bolton and Dr. Sarah Brookes, set sail on a new life together after tying the knot this weekend. The couple shared the big day with family and friends and their eighteen-month old…
Howth Yacht Club hosts the final day of the Leinster Optimist Championships this morning with in excess of 150 entries. Saturday dawned bright and if not sunny, exceedingly pleasant. The wind was from the north approx 12 knots and the there…
A super shot of Baltimore taken from above Coney Island yesterday. Feel free to share. Taken by Ron Mckechnie.
Posted by Best Photo's Of Baltimore Ireland on Sunday, 6 September 2015
Irish Team Learned 'Valuable Lessons' at Light Wind Optimist World Championships
6th September 2015 Optimist
After eight days of light or no winds the biggest ever Optimist World Dinghy Championships concluded in Poland. 58 nations and 275 competitors raced over nine days but it was Singapore who came out on top with three Gold medals and…
Olympic Laser triallist Finn Lynch has finished fifth overall at the Uunder 21 Laser European Championships in Murcia, Spain. Lynch, from the National Yacht Club in Dun Laoghaire counted two race wins in the ten race event to be just 12…
Tony Fox's Gringo leads Class one IRC after three races of the Dublin Bay Sailing Club Cruiser Challenge today. The first day was one of mixed fortunes for many crews with plenty of retirees due to damage, a collision and…
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Lifeboat crew with Larne RNLI launched their all-weather lifeboat this afternoon (Saturday 5 September) at 3.05pm following a report that a 24 ft yacht with three people onboard was in difficulty south of Muck Island. The request to launch was…
FLYING FIFTEEN - 1. The Gruffalo (K Poole/I Mathews), 2. As Good As It Gets (Ross Doyle), 3. FFantastic Mr Fox (N Meagher & N Matthews) GLEN - 1. Pterodactyl (R & D McCaffrey), 2. Glenluce (D & R O'Connor),3.…
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The penultimate race of the RORC Season's Points championship produced a dramatic finale to the club's domestic season. Whilst the overall and class winners will not be finalised until after next month's Rolex Middle Sea Race, the Cherbourg race all…
The Dun Laoghaire Flying Fifteen fleet launched next week's Mitsubishi Motors Ireland 2015 Flying Fifteen Championships of Ireland at the National Yacht Club yesterday. The Championships will be held next week-end 11 – 13 September on Dublin Bay. There will…
#Rowing: Ireland’s Mark O’Donovan and Shane O’Driscoll won the B Final of the lightweight pair at the World Rowing Championships in Aiguebelette in France this morning. The Ireland crew took over the lead just before halfway and rowed strong and…
Denmark's Jacob Bliksted Sørensen has successfully completed his 1,000km solo charity kitesurf expedition between Mozambique and Kenya in aid of his campaign, Mission: Safe Ocean. Setting off from Pemba, Mozambique, Jacob took 24 days to kitesurf the 1,000km distance along…
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#roundireland – American yachtsman George David, the owner of one of the world's fastest yachts, has his sights on the Round Ireland Yacht Race record and intends to compete in the 2016 Irish offshore race, according to Wicklow Sailing Club organisers. In a written…
