Cork Week 2026. Sailing News from Royal Cork Yacht Club's International Regatta
El Syd Takes ICRA IRC Title as Out of the Blue Tops ECHO in ICRA's Cork Week Review
21st July 2026 Cork Week
Frank Whelan's Ker 43 El Syd has been confirmed as the overall IRC winner of the 2026 Irish Cruiser Racing Association National Championships after ICRA published its official review of this month's Cork Week regatta. Galway Bay Sailing Club's Out…
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WOW!, another Cork Week has just flown by, my 18th - an unbroken run since 1990 - a most epic half-life sentence! As always, your North Sails team were there on and off the water supporting and helping all competitors…
The sense of land and sea interacting dynamically always seems much stronger around Cork Harbour than in most other places in Ireland, and never more so than in Cork Week with the Royal Cork Yacht Club in Crosshaven. There, the…
Cork Week and ICRA 2026 Champions Honoured at Royal Cork Prizegiving (Photo Gallery Here!)
10th July 2026 Cork Week
Royal Cork Yacht Club's Ross Deasy and Irish Cruiser Racing Association (ICRA) Commodore John Leech presented the Cork Week 2026 and ICRA National Championship prizes at Crosshaven on Friday evening after the regatta concluded with another day of sunshine and…
After Wednesday's spectacular Harbour Race produced one of Cork Week's defining moments, Thursday's penultimate day was a test of patience before becoming a test of tactics. Competitors spent almost four hours under AP before a light southerly finally arrived, allowing…
Heavy fog delayed Wednesday's Cork Week Harbour Race before a spectacular afternoon contest unfolded across Cork Harbour, where shifting tactics and a clean downwind start produced significant results across the regatta fleets. Visibility was reduced to around 100 metres during…
Baltimore RNLI's Beaufort Cup crew were presented with the San Souci Cup at Wednesday evening's (8 July) Beaufort Cup gala dinner at Haulbowline Naval Base. The San Souci Cup is awarded for the offshore Fastnet race within the Beaufort Cup…
Thick fog delayed the start of Wednesday's scheduled harbour racing at Cork Week after visibility in Cork Harbour dropped to around 100 metres. The AP postponement signal was displayed ahead of the planned 12 noon start as race officials monitored…
A change of course format tested crews across Cork Week 2026 on Tuesday (July 7) as the provisional overall standings began to take shape after the Cork Harbour regatta's second day. While IRC Zero and One switched from Monday's windward/leeward…
Baltimore RNLI's J/109 Storm has provisionally completed a clean sweep of the 2026 Beaufort Cup offshore race, leading both line honours and IRC overall on the unofficial YB Tracker leaderboard after finishing the 135-nautical-mile challenge on Tuesday morning. The tracker,…
Chris Hampton's Tango made a flawless start to the Etchells European Championship at Cork Week with three straight race wins on the opening day off Roches Point. Racing on a windward-leeward course outside Cork Harbour, the international one-design fleet enjoyed…
Cork Week Day One: Howth's Evans Leads IRC Zero In Crosshaven (Photo Gallery Here!)
6th July 2026 Cork Week
After its launch on Sunday evening, Cork Week 2026 Regatta opened at Royal Cork Yacht Club on Monday with early leaders emerging across the main IRC, Coastal, Non-Spinnaker and Sportsboat fleets. According to Principal Race Officer Con Murphy – who…
The official Cork Week 2026 Musto clothing collection has gone on sale, with the full range now available online ahead of next week's regatta. CH Marine is once again the official supplier of event merchandise, offering a selection of Musto-branded jackets,…
Baltimore RNLI held the early advantage in the Beaufort Cup's opening offshore race as part of Cork Week Regatta on Monday as the fleet settled into the 122-nautical-mile challenge from Haulbowline Naval Base to the Fastnet Rock and back. A…
The Taoiseach officially opened Cork Week 2026 at the Royal Cork Yacht Club in Crosshaven on Sunday, (July 5th) launching one of Ireland's biggest sailing events before competitors from Ireland and overseas take to the water this week. More than…
The Beaufort Cup returns to Cork Week this week as international military and emergency service crews prepare to contest the unique inter-services regatta, now in its 10th year. Launched in 2016 as a joint initiative between the Defence Forces and…
