Schull Harbour Sailing Club Enters 2025 Irish Sailing League

10th February 2025

Kenneth Rumball

Tight racing in the INSS J80 fleet of keelboats at the inaugural Irish Sailing League hosted by the Royal Irish Yacht Club on Dublin Bay in 2024. The league returns under a similar format for 2025 Credit: Afloat

The Irish Sailing League welcomes its first entry for the 2025 edition from Schull Harbour Sailing Club in West Cork. The young team from Schull impressed last year, having barely competed in a keelboat and then jumped into the J80 for the 2024 inaugural edition.

For 2025, the event is shaping up to be run by the Royal Irish Yacht Club, similar to last year, with the number of teams still limited to 10, so make sure to get your entries in sooner rather than later to avoid disappointment.

Winners of this year's edition will qualify to represent Ireland at the Sailing Champions League in 2026, like the Kinsale Team led by Sam Hunt, who won last year’s edition and are due to represent Ireland at the Sailing Champions League from June 11–13 in Kiel, Northern Germany.

As regular Afloat readers know, last year's league signed up ten teams and pioneered robotic marks for the inaugural staging.

Published in Irish Sailing League, Royal Irish Yacht Club, West Cork, INSS

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Kenneth Rumball

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Kenny Rumball is the Principal of the Irish National Sailing School in Dun Laoghaire Harbour. He is a multi dinghy champion and offshore sailor. In 2018 he was awarded the Royal Ocean Racing Club's Seamanship Trophy for a Man Overboard Rescue in the Round Ireland Race. In May 2020 he embarked on a mixed offshore doublehanded keelboat campaign with Pamela Lee.

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About the Irish Sailing League

The inaugural Irish Sailing League 2023, under the control of Kenneth Rumball, will be sailed over three weekends, in late June and early July, in Dun Laoghaire, and the plan is to race in Scotsman’s Bay vicinity.

In the first instance, each club is limited to one entry, but this may be increased based on the number of clubs wishing to participate. Worth noting, too, that in future years the plan would be to extend the event to include regional rounds in North, South, East and West.

Each Club must nominate a crew. The maximum crew number is 4, all members of the same club, and one crew must be female. The crew number and lineup cannot be changed later than seven days before the first race without a points penalty.