Round Ireland Yacht 2024 Race Updates from Wicklow Sailing Club
Details of the 2014 Round Ireland Yacht Race from Wicklow Sailing Club have been published in good time for next summer's race starting at 2pm on Saturday, June 28th 2014. The closing date for entries is noon on 24th May…
#rioti – The further west you go in Ireland, the more it all seems like a giant theatre set. With giant characters to match. We staid East Coast folk could probably cope with it if each of these outsize characters, who…
#roundirelandrecord –The idea that sailing round Ireland could be sport would have seemed crazy not so very long ago. Ireland's Atlantic coasts, indeed all Ireland's coasts, were seen as the sole preserve of a skilled and hardy breed, very special…
#roundireland – ICRA's Boat of the Year, the NUIG sailing team will talk on their Round Ireland 2012 class win at the Galway Bay Sailing Club this Wednesday (27th February 2012). One the youngest crew to have competed in the…
Round Ireland's Enhanced Status, & Two Centenarians Strut Their Stuff
22nd September 2012 Round Ireland
#sailing – With so many major international events descending on Irish sailing throughout the 2012 season, it's inevitable that our own home grown classics slipped quickly from the headlines. Yet now, as we see the national programme winding down towards…
Round Ireland Yacht Race (Thurs 7.30pm). French Yacht Makes Amazing Come Back
28th June 2012 Round Ireland
#roundireland – An amazing last stretch performance from Inis Mor has resulted in a probable IRC overall victory in the 2012 Round Ireland Race. Tonnerre de Breskens has been in the clubhouse for the last 12 or so hours, setting…
#roundireland – While the official tracker has Inis Mor as the overall leader in the 2012 Round Ireland Race, it's going to be a nail biting few hours for the French boat. As of 3pm, Inis Mor has 30.6 miles…
#roundireland – As predicted by www.afloat.ie it looks increasingly likely as if Piet Vroon's Ker 46 Tonnerre de Breskens 3 will follow in the footsteps of the legendary Moonduster, by winning successive Round Ireland Races. While the final few miles…
#roundireland – As the on-the-water leaders push down the north Irish Sea, the fleet can now be considered in four groups. In group one, battling it out for line honours, is Green Dragon and Tonnerre and possible Lee Overlay Partners…
#roundireland – Inis Mor, Tonnerre and Noonmark VI are still podium boats as the fleet races across the North coast but the outcome of the next 24 hours may well decide the 2012 Round Ireland race. While often the graveyard…
#roundireland – Inistrahull, or more accurately, Tor Rocks, a sea mile or so to the north, is the most northerly point on the Round Ireland Race Course rhumb line. Green Dragon, saddled with the burden of being the biggest boat in…
#roundireland – It's been a really interesting 24 hours on the south and west coast of Ireland as the leaders converge on Mayo, while the slower boats approach the Fastnet. On corrected time, the Ker 39 Inis Mor retains her…
#roundireland – (Monday morning, June 25th). There is an element of déjà vu about the early leaderboard as the yachts make slow progress along the south coast in the 2012 Round Ireland Yacht Race. Inis Mor, second in 2010, leads…
#RoundIreland– Sole Dutch entry Tonnerre de Breskens skippered by Piet Vroon looked every inch the defending champion when she won the reaching start of a crowded Round Ireland start line in Wicklow this afternoon. SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE PHOTOS BY BOB…
#roundireland – The Galwegians are rattling the round Ireland cages. Tomorrow's noon start of the biennial Round Ireland Race from Wicklow will see a strong mid-fleet challenge from Galway University with a college-crewed Reflex 38, boosted by a front-of-the-pack show…
#roundireland – The countdown has begun for Sunday's Round Ireland Yacht Race where NUI Galway is supporting the first ever university-backed entry into the 700-mile race. Ten NUI Galway students and graduates will be on the start line in Wicklow…
