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New York Invitational Cup
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Royal Cork Yacht Club concluded a strong campaign at the 2025 Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup by finishing fifth overall, the best result among the three Irish entrants in Newport, Rhode Island. The Crosshaven team, led by Anthony…
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Royal Cork Yacht Club surged up the leaderboard on Day 4 of the Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup, breaking into the top five overall after a strong showing in Newport, Rhode Island. The Crosshaven crew, skippered by Anthony…
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Royal Cork Yacht Club kept Ireland firmly in the spotlight on day three of the Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup, finishing the day in 10th place overall and level on points with Eastern Yacht Club. The Crosshaven team,…
Royal Cork Yacht Club moved into eighth overall after a second-place finish on day two of the Rolex NYYC Invitational Cup in Newport, Rhode Island.
Royal Cork Yacht Club surged into eighth overall at the Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup after a strong day two showing. The Irish crew finished 10th, sixth and second in Wednesday’s three races, leaving them on 49 points…
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Royal Cork Yacht Club sit 10th overall after the first day of the Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup. The Crosshaven team, skippered by Anthony O'Leary, placed 14th in race one, then improved to fifth before finishing 12th in…
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April showers bring May flowers, but September showers, especially in New England, often leave behind a spate of dry late-summer perfection: crisp evenings, warm days and pleasant breezes. So, while no one was excited for yesterday’s three-hour practice race session…
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The San Diego Yacht Club is the top favourite for the 2025 Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup. They achieved three consecutive podium finishes, including a win in 2023. “San Diego has done very well at this event,” said…
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Howth Yacht Club have already made an impact on the international keelboat team racing scene in 2025, with an HYC crew led by Ross McDonald winning the Royal Yacht Squadron Invitationals in June, sailing J/70s. The biennial Rolex New York…
David Maguire (on helm) will lead the Royal Irish Yacht Club’s maiden entry into the Invitational Cup this September
One of the best ways to track the intensifying competitiveness of the Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup is the number of teams taking time to train in Newport in advance of this year's edition, which is scheduled for…
A tightly packed IC37 fleet race downwind in Rhode Island Sound
Two of Ireland's three crews for September's New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup got some pre-event practice at the IC37 USA National Championships in the waters of Rhode Island Sound earlier this month. Royal Cork and Royal Irish crews competed…
Howth Yacht Club's team prepares for a return to the prestigious Rolex NYYC Invitational Cup,  as they train for success in Newport, Rhode Island, this September
Howth Yacht Club has confirmed its final team selection for one of the top events in world amateur sailing: the Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup, taking place in Newport, Rhode Island, from 6-13 September 2025. This elite Corinthian…
David Maguire's Cape 31 Valkyrie is providing intensifying training for the Royal Irish YC's team for September's New York YC Invitational at Newport, RI
The Royal Irish Yacht Club has nominated Dave Maguire's 'Team Valkyrie' to represent the club at the 2025 Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup this September. Unusually, three top Irish sailing teams, two from Dublin and one from Cork,…
Ryan Scott (left) and Darren Wright of the Howth YC NYYC Development Squad with the winning Lorna Towsend Trophy at the conclusion of Part 1 of the 39th Annual Brass Monkeys Series at Howth
The locals will tell you that the September sailing from the New York YC's Newport, RI summer base at Harbour Court is the best of the year, but either way, it's unimaginably different from December off Howth. Nevertheless, the Howth…
The Dave Maguire skippered Howth Yacht Club entry in the Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup
Needing simply not to shoot themselves in the foot to ensure victory in the Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup, the San Diego Yacht Club dominated the windy final race to stamp their authority on the eighth edition of…
Ireland's Royal Cork and Howth Yacht Clubs scored a one, two in race seven of the Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup in Narragansett Bay
Royal Cork Yacht Club moved into the top ten of the eighth Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup after a seventh race win on Thursday afternoon, a race where Ireland's second Irish team from Howth scored a second to lie…
The Dave Maguire skippered Howth Yacht Club boat chases a home country entry downwind at the Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup
The underdogs continue to give the established teams a run for their money at the Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup, the international regatta for Corinthian sailors. Two Irish teams competing, one each from Howth and Royal Cork Yacht…

New York Yacht Club’s biennial Invitational Cup

Ireland has a proud history in New York Yacht Club’s biennial Invitational Cup, with Irish participation from the very start and a podium result in 2019.

In 2009, two Irish Clubs,  Royal St. George in Dun Laoghaire and Royal Cork in Crosshaven, entered into New York's newest sailing competition that was reminiscent of Newport’s America’s Cup days when 19 yacht club teams from 14 nations descended on this “City by the Sea”.

The Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup is a competition between yacht clubs, with strict eligibility rules ensuring that each team is comprised exclusively of amateur sailors.

The competition, which was first run in 2009, has drawn entries from 49 clubs from 22 nations on all six inhabited continents.

The New York Yacht Club won the inaugural event in 2009, with the Royal Canadian Yacht Club winning in 2011 and 2013, England's Royal Thames Yacht Club winning in 2015 and Southern Yacht Club from New Orleans winning in 2017.

In 2019 the regatta was sailed for the first time in the New York Yacht Club’s fleet of IC37 yachts, and Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, from Australia, became the first Southern Hemisphere club to win the trophy. And it was in this edition that Anthony O’Leary’s Royal Cork team took the bronze medal.