Irish Sailing and Regatta Race Results and News
156 boats lined out for the IODAI Optimist Connaughts in Lough Derg at the weekend, with three fleets enjoying glorious conditions off Dromineer. The gold fleet completed five races over the two days, with Royal Cork's Peter McCann five points…
Irish Commodore's Cup team-mates Antix and Roxy 6 lead Classes 1 and 2 after two days at the Brewin Dolphin Scottish Series in Tarbert. Yesterday produced one good race, one slow and difficult one as an early southerly breeze died…
Just as the stunning scenery never changes from year to year on Loch Fyne, so the winds remain inconsistent and challenging as was proven by the first day’s racing at this year’s Brewin Dolphin Scottish Series. Patience was the primary…
Light winds on the Saturday saw to it that the GP14 Purcell Trophy was a one-day affair, with a 26-boat fleet taking to the water on Sunday for four quickfire races. 40-minute courses meant that top and bottom were typically…
Two Irish sailors have moved into the top ten of the North Sea Regatta in the Laser Radial fleet. Rory Lynch and Ross Harvey both posted top three results in the 79-boat fleet to move into the top ten, with…
A fleet of top-class double-handers will streak across Ireland's south coast in the next two days as part of a 1,000-mile race beginning and ending in the French port of Caen. The Normandy Race sends the crews of Class 40s…
A Royal St George YC team have taken the prestigious Cumberland Cup over the weekend after a near-flawless series of racing. The team went into the final stages without dropping a single race, and claimed what's thought to be the…
A Royal St George YC team will be the sole Irish representatives at the Royal Thames YC Cumberland Cup, the oldest perpetual trophy in yacht racing, with racing kicking off today at Queen Mary SC. The event is a two-boat…
Two teams from the Royal St., George YC in Dun Laoghaire made it to the last eight of the 339-race Wilson trophy after 20 rounds of competition at West Kirby Sailing Club this weekend. It is the 16th appearance for…
Racing in the waters of Red Bay in County Antrim, Ballyholme Yacht Club's Ryan Seaton won this weekend's Ulster Laser sailing championships, which was hosted by Cushendall Sailing and Boating Club. Some 88 boats took part in the two-day provincial…
After some late coming and going the 2010 Dublin Match Racing Open is on this weekend with teams from Ireland and the UK set to go head to head for the newly christened Investwise Cup. The Tour has had several…
Cork sailor Revelin Minihane joined Larry Ellison and Russell Coutts this week in winning the second round of the 2010 RC44 cup in Austrlia. Minihane, in the pit for the BMW Oracle team, was part of a crew that dominated…
Foynes Yacht Club has been chosen to host the Mermaid National Championships. The competition, last hosted in Foynes in 2004, will see almost forty sailing boats of a classic 1950’s design, racing daily for seven days on the estuary waters…
Team Sea Dubai, with Dubliner Dave McHugh on board, settled into joint second place with Team Aqua in the RC44 Austria Cup after superb sailing on day one. The team had drafted in decorated Dragon sailor Harm Muller Spreer at…
Adrian Lee’s Cookson 50, Lee Overlay Partners has won the 2010 Antigua Sailing Week, Ocean Series writes Louay Habib. For the second year running, Lee’s international crew beat Peter Harrison’s Farr 114, Sojana, to claim the overall title for the…
Registration for the Dublin Match Racing Open, to be held in the Royal Irish YC on June 12/13, opens this Friday. Meanwhile, independent financial planning firm, Investwise, are all set to sponsor the Dublin Match Racing Open to be hosted…