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The Irish Cruiser Racer Association (ICRA) Under 25 Support programme is now open for 2022 applications.

In 2020, ICRA created a support programme to help clubs develop their own Under 25 squads. In the first two years of the scheme, the cruiser racer body has assisted ten clubs from all corners of the country to establish and campaign U25 squads.

"In our third year of funding, we will be able to provide successful applicant clubs with an initial Capital Grant to assist clubs to buy a keelboat for their U25 squad", ICRA's Dave Cullen told Afloat.

The scheme will then continue to provide an annual allowance to assist the club run their U25 programme until it is well established.

"ICRA is now inviting Category One Irish Yacht Clubs to send an 'Expression of Interest' and apply to join this programme", Cullen said.

Full details about the programme can be found here 

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William M Nixon has been writing about sailing in Ireland and internationally for many years, with his work appearing in leading sailing publications on both sides of the Atlantic. He has been a regular sailing columnist for four decades with national newspapers in Dublin, and has had several sailing books published in Ireland, the UK, and the US. An active sailor, he has owned a number of boats ranging from a Mirror dinghy to a Contessa 35 cruiser-racer, and has been directly involved in building and campaigning two offshore racers. His cruising experience ranges from Iceland to Spain as well as the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, and he has raced three times in both the Fastnet and Round Ireland Races, in addition to sailing on two round Ireland records. A member for ten years of the Council of the Irish Yachting Association (now the Irish Sailing Association), he has been writing for, and at times editing, Ireland's national sailing magazine since its earliest version more than forty years ago