Kish Race
Conor O'Higgins' JPK 10.80 Rockabill VI has won the Leinster Boats 2026 Dún Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club Kish Challenge after a light-wind race in which she was the only boat to finish within the time limit. With the breeze variable…
The Dún Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club Kish Challenge has been postponed until next Sunday, October 4th, after a forecast of strong winds at the scheduled start time. Race Officer Cormac Bradley confirmed the postponement to Afloat, with the decision taken…
Aurelia, ValenTina, ReQuest and Rockabill VI are among the entries for Sunday’s race and cruise. Twenty-four boats had entered the Leisnter Boats sponsored Dún Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club’s 2026 Kish Challenge by Wednesday evening, ahead of the event on Sunday,…
The Dún Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club's Kish Challenge sponsored by Leinster Boats returns to Dublin Bay on Sunday, September 27th, with racing and cruising divisions again featuring in the annual end-of-season fixture. The 2026 Challenge has a warning signal scheduled…
Having had to postpone the Leinster Boats sponsored Kish Challenge on its original date due to a severe lack of wind, the sense was that the hosting of the event a week later might also be in jeopardy due to…
After last Sunday’s cancellation due to a complete lack of wind, organisers are confident the inaugural Kish Challenge will go ahead this Sunday (October 5th) on Dublin Bay. As of 16:30 on Saturday (October 4th), Race Officer and organiser Cormac…
Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club Cancels Inaugural Kish Challenge Due to Lack of Wind
28th September 2025 Kish Race
Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club's inaugural Kish Challenge was cancelled today due to no wind on Dublin Bay. Race Officer and organiser Cormac Bradley will try again next Sunday (October 5th) for the event that has attracted fifty entries. The…
As of 19:00 Friday evening, the entry for the inaugural Kish Challenge for the racing and cruising fraternities has reached the fifty mark, with twenty-eight racing entries and twenty-two cruising entries. Further, in my engagement with Dublin Port Company without…
We are three weeks away from the Kish Race, weather permitting, with this summer season close-out scheduled for Sunday, 28th September. Hosted, again, by Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club, and sponsored by Leinster Boats, the race will have a new…
It has been quite the weekend for sailing all over Ireland, with flashes of pure sunlit joy. This was despite a weather prognosis which, at its gloomiest, had suggested that there might be no significant sailing at all anywhere. An…
After a previous cancellation due to weather, the 2024 DMYC Kish Race - supported by Lenster Boats - from Dun Laoghaire on Dublin Bay sailed on Sunday (October 6th), albeit to the Shanganagh buoy in Killiney Bay, because of heavy…
The rescheduled DMYC Kish Race, supported by Leinster Boats, will be sailed this Sunday 6th, October from Dun Laoghaire Harbour. "The current forecast suggests that Saturday 5th is almost a repeat of last Sunday, whereas Sunday looks much more reasonable",…
Given a deteriorating weather forecast, Sunday's Kish Race on Dublin Bay has been postponed to next weekend. With the DBSC Summer Series racing concluding this Saturday, DMYC organisers will consider hosting the race on Saturday or Sunday next weekend (October…
DMYC 2024 Kish Race Sets Sail on Sunday, September 29th from Dun Laoghaire
21st September 2024 Kish Race
The Annual Kish Race, sponsored by Leinster Boats and hosted by the Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club, with the cooperation of Dublin Port Company, Dublin Bay Sailing Club and Dun Laoghaire Harbour, will take place on Sunday 29th September this…
The forced postponement of the Kish Race, with sponsorship from Leinster Boats, from the last Sunday of September to the first Sunday of October was completely vindicated with a forty-plus fleet who enjoyed glorious sunshine and pleasant wind conditions to…
Smyth's Sunfast 3600 'Searcher' is 2023 Kish Race Winner on Sunny Dublin Bay
1st October 2023 Kish Race
Pete Smyth's Sunfast 3600 Searcher from the National Yacht Club was the overall handicap winner of Sunday's Leinster Boats-sponsored DMYC Kish Race on Dublin Bay. Smyth's crew led the 36-boat fleet from Dun Laoghaire Harbour's start to finish line in the last big…
