Irish Crews Compete at IC37 Rhode Island National Championships

27th July 2025

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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 in an event that saw a record number of 26 teams, including five other Invitational Cup Teams, including San Diego Yacht Club, New York Yacht Club, Corinthian Yacht Club, Royal Thames Yacht Club and Royal Canadian Yacht Club.

Royal Cork, skippered by Anthony O Leary, was 18th overall. His crew included Robert O'Leary, Chase Quinn, Marty O'Leary, Sally O'Flynn, Emma Geary, Clive O'Shea, Patrick Good and Derek Moynan.

The Royal Irish David Maguire skippered crew was 21st and included crew members Fiona Walsh, Johnny Durcan, Trudy O'Hare, Seafra Guilfoyle, Dan O'Grady, William Maguire, Nathan van Steenberge, and Gary Cullen.

Results are here

Also, this month, Howth Yacht Club confirmed its crew for the third Irish entry in the Invitational Cup, as Afloat reports here.

Published in New York Invitational Cup, Royal Cork YC, Royal Irish Yacht Club

Published in New York Invitational Cup

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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.