Fastnet 450: Dun Laoghaire to Cork Race
Howth Yacht Club Flag Kept Flying in Cork by Simon Knowles & His Indian Braves in Fastnet 450
26th August 2020 Fastnet 450 Race
Ireland's sports organisations are taking a battering during the pandemic, and the operating model of sailing clubs, in particular, makes them especially vulnerable to a downturn in all activities afloat and ashore. Afloat.ie's W M Nixon wrote this piece yesterday…
Fastnet 450: Nieulargo Wins, Aurelia Takes Line Honours, & Cinnamon Girl is Right There Despite it not Being Her Weather
25th August 2020 Fastnet 450 Race
Day 3, Monday, 1600 hrs: The demanding Fastnet 450 course kept crews working very hard indeed until the last couple of miles running in towards the finish in the entrance to Cork Harbour under the iconic Roche's Point Lighthouse this…
Nieulargo & Aurelia Fight Fastnet 450 All The Way Towards this Morning's Finish
24th August 2020 Fastnet 450 Race
Day 3, Monday, 0900hrs Chris Power Smith's J/122 Aurelia may have had nearly two miles in hand on Denis and Annamarie Murphy's Grand Soleil 40 when she led the Fastnet 450 fleet round the Fastnet Rock at 0040 hrs in…
Nieulargo & Aurelia Struggle with "Wind Full of Holes" to be First at the Fastnet
23rd August 2020 Fastnet 450 Race
Day Two, Sunday, 2030hrs: After a stimulating day's sailing along the length of the south coast, turning to windward in very sailable breezes and enjoying more sunshine than much of the rest of Ireland, the leaders in the Fastnet 450 are…
Red Alert - Dunmore East RNLI Assist Dismasted Fastnet 450 Race Yacht 36 Miles Offshore
23rd August 2020 RNLI Lifeboats
At 7.26 am Dunmore East RNLI Lifeboat launched on service to assist a stricken yacht in the Fastnet 450 Race which had suffered a dismasting 36 miles South of Dunmore East on the County Waterford coast. On reaching the Greystones-based…
Aurelia First to Make Tacking Move in Fastnet 450’s Ocean Chess Game
23rd August 2020 Fastnet 450 Race
Day two, Sunday 1400 hrs: Chris Power Smith’s J/122 Aurelia was the first of the three on-the-water leaders in the Fastnet 450 to tack far offshore for the longboard that will take her from the area of stronger west wind…
Fastnet 450 Today Shaping Up as Windward Work Along Entire South Coast
23rd August 2020 Fastnet 450 Race
Sunday, day two, 0930hrs: After yesterday (Saturday) afternoon's swift ebb-assisted close reach down the East Coast from Dun Laoghaire to the first major turn at the Tuskar Rock, the fleet in the Fastnet 450 have found a determinedly west wind of…
Tide Turns for Fastnet 450 Fleet as Nieulargo Leads & Humdinger Lives Up to Her Name
22nd August 2020 Fastnet 450 Race
Day One 1830 - As the onset of the adverse flood tide approaches with the leaders sluicing south past Cahore Point with the last of the ebb and more than 50 miles of the Fastnet 450 course already sailed, an…
Cinnamon Girl Leads Fastnet 450 Fleet After Fast Start From Dublin Bay
22nd August 2020 Fastnet 450 Race
A brisk sou'wester provided a fast reaching start for the 266-mile Fastnet 450 Race at 1300 hrs today in Dublin Bay, with Chris Power Smith's J/122 Aurelia (RStGYC), John O'Gorman's Sunfast 3600 Hot Cookie (NYC) and Robert Rendell's X45 Samatom…
Fastnet 450 Race Has Come to Mean So Much for Frustrated Irish Sailing in 2020
22nd August 2020 W M Nixon
The Fastnet 450 starts today (Saturday) at 1300hrs in Dublin Bay, and sends the fleet on a 270-mile course southward, taking them all the way to the Fastnet Rock before finishing back at the entrance to Cork Harbour, clear of…
Track Ireland's newest offshore race, the Fastnet 450 Race, below as a 20 boat fleet races 270-miles from Dublin Bay to Cork Harbour commemorating the 150th anniversary of the National Yacht Club and the 300th birthday of the Royal Cork…
Fastnet 450 Race Entry Deadline Closes Today - 20 Boats Already Entered
17th August 2020 Fastnet 450 Race
There is still time to enter the newest race on the Irish Sailing calendar and join the 20-boat Fastnet 450 fleet racing fro Dublin to Cork next Saturday via the famous Fastnet Rock. At least twenty boats representing sixteen different Irish…
At least twenty boats representing sixteen different Irish yacht clubs will contest what forecasts suggest will be a fast inaugural edition of the Fastnet 450 Race next Saturday from Dublin to Cork via the Fastnet Rock. The mixed cruiser fleet hit…
Royal Ulster Yacht Excession Heads for Fastnet 450 Race & Cork 300 Celebrations
14th August 2020 Northern Ireland Waters
John Harrington will carry the flag again for Royal Ulster Yacht Club, as he is off again south in the IMX38 eXcession! In a racing schedule arranged with military precision, John and a football team sized crew will tackle the…
Fastnet 450 Race Capped at 25 Boat Limit; 19 Entered So Far (List Here!)
13th August 2020 Fastnet 450 Race
Ireland's newest offshore race, the Fastnet 450, looks like getting its full quota of 25 boats even though details of the 270-mile fixture were announced less than a fortnight ago. 19 race-boats - drawn from as many clubs - are…
Chris Power–Smith's J122 Aurelia ('The Golden One') from Dublin Bay is the latest entry for next weekend's inaugural Fastnet 450 Race from Dublin to Cork. The skipper of the potent ISORA performer says the decision to enter the race first announced a…
