North Sails Ireland
Great Weekend for North Sails Ireland as HYC J109 'Storms' Kip Regatta & RStGYC J122 'Aurelia' Wins ISORA
14th May 2018 North Sails Ireland Maurice 'Prof' O'Connell reports that North Sails Ireland powered race boats had a 'stunning' weekend's success on both sides of the Irish Sea. Kip Regatta Firstly, in Kip Regatta in Scotland in the competitive 12 boat RC 35 division Pat…
North Sails Ireland have announced a sponsorship package for the two Irish J109 class events in 2018. The package will cover the J109 East Coast Championships in the Royal Irish Yacht Club on May 19th & 20th and the National…
North Sails Ireland Off to a Great Start in the Dublin Bay Sailing Club Season
7th May 2018 North Sails Ireland North Sails Ireland are reporting an 'epic' start to the Dublin Bay Sailing Club season with a fine turnout for the third Saturday race in medium southerly winds and a good Dublin Bay chop. The sailmaker recorded the following IRC and…
North Sails Ireland Powers ‘Mathilde’ to Second in Monaco Swan One Design Regatta
29th April 2018 North Sails Ireland Shane Hughes from North Sails Ireland is the sailing team manager and a trimmer onboard the Swiss Club Swan 50 ‘Mathilde’. Hughes has been working with the team since the boat arrived new from Nautor in early 2017. The project…
The North Sails Ireland team of Nigel Young, Maurice 'Prof' O'Connell and Shane Hughes (scroll down for sailmaker details below) were busy at three sailing events last weekend, each winning races with clients on the Irish Sea, Howth and Kinsale.…
Howth Yacht Club Spring Warmer Series Gets On Water Coaching From North Sails Ireland (VIDEO)
18th April 2018 North Sails Ireland North Sails Ireland sailmakers Shane Hughes and Maurice "Prof" O'Connell were afloat in the coaching RIB at the first day of the Key Capital sponsored Spring Warmer Series in HYC on April 14th. Also in Howth was NS colleague Nigel…
Chilly Beneteau 31.7 North Sails Ireland 3Di Sea Trial Bears Fruit for Camira & Crew
17th April 2018 North Sails Ireland North Sails Ireland's Maurice "Prof" O'Connell had a chilly evening's test sail on Friday April 13th, unlucky 13th for Prof, as he had no foul weather gear! The occasion was the unveiling of new sails on the Beneteau First 31.7…
Kinsale Sailor Jeremy Elliott Holds Key Design Role in North Sails
15th April 2018 North Sails Ireland Kinsale sailor and naval architect Jeremy Elliott is heading up North Sails Design Services giving him a key role in making the latest technology available to the North Technology Group companies and their clients. Based in Gosport, he’s worked on everything…
2016 Melges 24 World Champion Maurice "Prof" O'Connell & Nigel Young from North Sails Ireland were invited to Bergen in Noway to run a 'Speedcamp' for the Scandinavian fleet last weekend. Over 50 sailors took part over the three day…
Brendan Coghlan's new Dublin Bay based Jeanneau Sunfast 3600 took to the water recently for her maiden voyage. North Sails Ireland's Maurice 'Prof' O'Connell and Nigel Young and were afloat with Brendan's team, testing the full inventory of sails that…
North Sails 'Sail Trim Simulator' Will Go On Show at the ICRA Nationals in Galway
28th March 2018 North Sails Ireland A North Sails Ireland 'Sail Trim simulator' will be used during post race de–briefings at the ICRA Nationals this August in Galway. The new tool helps to 'make sense of sail trim, fundamentals of sail shape, and understand how these variables impact…
JB Braun is the North Sails Director of Design and Engineering and one of the world’s leading sail designers. His designs have won the America’s Cup and Volvo Ocean Race, as well as Olympic medals. JB Braun loves making sailboats…
Win a North Sails Holdall In This Free To Enter North Sails Ireland/Afloat.ie Competition (NOW CLOSED)
12th March 2018 North Sails Ireland North Sails Ireland is giving away one of its famous holdalls in this free to enter competition with Afloat.ie. THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED The new holdall is part of the new North Sails Tech clothing range that celebrates 60 years of…
Winning With North Sails Onboard a Melges 32 at Chile's Regata Chiloe
6th March 2018 North Sails Ireland Shane Hughes of North Sails Ireland left the cold Irish weather and the Northern hemisphere behind and headed south to Chile to compete in the biennial Regata Chiloe, one of Chile’s biggest and most prestigious regattas based around the beautiful…
There's an unexpectedly icy welcome for the Dragon fleet in Cannes, this week where the 'Beast from the East' is making its presence felt earlier in the South of France than it is in Ireland. Unseasonably low temperatures and high winds…
Last week's RORC Caribbean class winner Conor Fogerty, skipper of the Jeanneau Sunfast 3600 BAM!, has given a thumbs up to his new sail wardrobe from North Sails Ireland. The race was very windy with Fogerty, the Irish Sailor of the…
