Irish Sailing and Regatta Race Results and News
The International 420 Class Association has launched a free online Training Video (scroll down for video) to provide coaching and training tips for both the beginner and experienced 420 sailors. Sailors are always looking for ways to improve their sailing…
Racing Update: Third in Melges Pre-worlds, SB3 Worlds, Gung Ho top on Dublin Bay, ISORA, Foynes to Fenit
16th May 2011 Racing
Conor Clarke's Melges 24 finished third overall at the Melges pre-worlds event in Texas yesterday. Let's hope it is a good omen for Irish sportsboat sailors at world championships on either side of of the Atlantic this morning. Clarke is…
Ireland's sole entry in the Pre-Worlds Regatta at the 2011 Melges 24 World Championship in Corpus Christi, Texas has finished third overall. A seventh and a sixth score yesterday saw Nathan Wilmot at the helm of Conor Clarke's IRL 607…
Deadlines for entry in to a number of this season's key sailing regattas are looming. Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta's significantly reduced early bird entry rate for the July 7th event will end on Monday and offshore racers intending to race…
Racing update: DBSC, ISORA, Royal St. George Knights, Olympic Keelboat Drama and Kinsale's Club House
9th May 2011 Racing
Sea Mist Presented No Obstacle for Saturday's Dublin Bay Sailing Club Fleet all the results here. The ISORA fleet raced to Rockabill and back but only 13 entered for the 50-miler. Abroad, Keelboats are out of the Olympic Games (and…
Clyde Cruising Club, organiser of the Brewin Dolphin Scottish Series, is inviting yachts from around Scotland and further afield to join in Scotland's Round the Island Race. The one day event takes place during the Scottish Series in Tarbert, Loch…
Antigua Sailing Week has been running for 45 years and the Bluff Cove "Bell" is probably the most famous regatta trophy awarded so there was great celebrations at the weekend when an Irish sailor got his hands on it writes…
There's familiar names at the top of the leaderboards after a busy May Bank holiday weekend afloat on Irish waters. Here's the Monday morning wrap up: The Kinsale Yacht Club Spring Series ended in a gale. We have the pictures,…
A fire on board Titan Powerplay took hold in Falmouth Marina in Antigua last night and has badly damaged the boat. Nobody was injured but the Reichel Pugh 75 has been damaged beyond any immediate repair ruling out any further…
Ireland's Eddie Jordan was back on the podium last night but it was for exploits on water rather than tarmac as the skipper of Lush, his family trust's Oyster 655 sailing yacht writes Louay Habib. The BBC's F1 analyst finished…
Irish F1analyst Eddie Jordan might be better known for exploits on tarmac than the high seas but it did not stop the 63-year old Dubliner sailing a smart race to win in the south-eastern Caribbean Sea today in day one…
Italian sailing clothing brand Slam is title sponsor to the Solent based X-Yachts Solent Cup and as the official clothing partner for X-Yachts GB and Ireland. Slam is providing all competitors with an event T-Shirt and will be offering competitors…
There is free berthing available to the first 30 confirmed entries in this year's X-Yachts Solent Cup. Organisers are hopeful a number of Irish boats will travel. An entry form can be found HERE. Competitors will benefit from the following:…
Clyde Cruising Club, organisers of the Brewin Dolphin Scottish Series, is encouraging sailing enthusiasts to sign up online for this year's event, with this years entry form and notice of race now available online by logging on to the dedicated…
Irish sailors are bound to feature in the Island Sailing Club's plans to most fittingly commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the famous Round the Island Race in 2011. The club is involved in tracing past entrants and Ireland has enjoyed…
12 boats took part in the years 505 Irish Nationals and British Isles Championships. Following a delayed Swansea Cork ferry, the four UK boats made it to MBSC at 12 30pm on Saturday. Racing on Saturday was held in Cuskinny…
