Dun Laoghaire to Host IRC Euro Championships in 2024

Dun Laoghaire to Host IRC Euro Championships in 2024 - RORC

2nd October 2023

The IRC Euro Championships is open to all IRC-rated boats and Ireland's biggest IRC fleet is on Dublin Bay Credit: Afloat

London's Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) has announced Dun Laoghaire as the venue for its IRC European Championships in 2024.

While a host club has yet to be named, RORC's provisional programme 2024 says the eighth championship edition will be held in September on Dublin Bay.

Alternating between the North and the South of Europe (the Channel and the Mediterranean Sea), the IRC European Championship is a flagship event of the 2024 IRC season and typically aims to bring together more than 60 boats.

The event is open to all IRC-rated boats. Typically, it will consist of a minimum of four coastal or tactical races (coefficient 1) and a long coastal race (coefficient 2).

Following the inaugural championship as part of Cork Week in 2016, the event sailed in Marseille in 2017, Cowes in 2018, and San Remo in 2019; the event sailed in Hyères, France in 2021 before moving to Brekens, Holland, in 2022 and in Cannes, France last June.

A screenshot of part of RORC's provisional programme for 2024 showing Dun Laoghaire as the IRC Euros venue in its last event of the season

At the end of the week, a trophy rewarding the leaders of each IRC Class will be awarded, as well as a Special Trophy for the first in the overall ranking who will be crowned European IRC Champion.

See RORC's provisional programme for 2024 here

Published in RORC IRC Europeans, RORC, Royal Irish Yacht Club

Published in RORC IRC Europeans

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IRC Europeans Championships

Alternating between the North and the South of Europe (the Channel and the Mediterranean Sea), the IRC European Championship is a flagship event of the IRC season and typically aims to bring together more than 60 boats.

IRC is a World Sailing-recognised rating system and the principal yacht measurement system for the rating of racing yachts worldwide.

The event is open to all IRC-rated boats. Typically, it will consist of a minimum of four coastal or tactical races (coefficient 1) and a long coastal race (coefficient 2).

The IRC rating rule is administered jointly by the RORC Rating Office in Lymington, UK and UNCL Centre de Calcul, Pôle Course du Yacht Club de France, in Paris, France.