IRC European Championships in Dublin Bay to Feature Corinthian Yacht Racing Prizes

29th July 2024

RIYC and RORC are embracing the addition of Corinthian awards for the IRC European Championships where professional and Corinthian crews will compete together Credit: Afloat

Corinthian yachts will race for additional prizes in the IRC European Championships on Dublin Bay this September to celebrate the inclusiveness of yacht racing and club skippers.

Announcing the generous sponsorship of Maples Group, an international law firm and fund and fiduciary services provider, Patrick Burke of the Royal Irish Yacht Club confirmed that RIYC and RORC were delighted to embrace the addition of Corinthian awards in this international event where professional and Corinthian crews compete together.

“Naturally, the traditional format is retained, and there will only be one overall IRC European Champion in 2024, but we are delighted with this extension – for the first time, each class will have an additional Corinthian winner; furthermore, we will be calculating silver fleet winners after Day two of the Championships.”

“The competitiveness of the event and the races within races are a huge attraction to many owners with whom we have spoken. Coming in early September (after three weekends of events in Royal Irish Yacht Club) we see fantastic interest in the event and have organised to make it a week of competitiveness and craic both ashore and on the water racing in beautiful Dublin Bay”.

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Discounted berthing and lift-outs will be provided for visiting yachts and every effort will be made to make participation easy and accessible.

The RIYC says 'special accommodations' will be made to facilitate visiting yachts competing in the UNIO Irish Cruiser Racing Association Championships at the Royal Irish Yacht Club two weeks before, and/or the Northern Trust J-Cup Ireland and J-109 Europeans the previous weekend.

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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).

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.

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.