Sovereign's Cup Sailing. News and Results from the Kinsale YC Event

In less than two weeks since registration opened for the O'Leary Insurance Group Sovereign's Cup 2021, 30 entries were received. The speed at which the entries have come in is best exemplified by Denis and Annamarie Murphy's entry of Nieulargo…

Registration is now open for the 2021 O'Leary Insurance Group Sovereigns Cup which will take place 23rd to 26th June in Kinsale Yacht Club, click here to enter online. Participants will sail in Classes 0, 1, 2, Coastal and White…

Sovereign's Cup 2021 Targets 50 Boat Fleet: Revised Plan & Notice Of Race Issued by Kinsale Yacht Club
17th December 2020 Sovereign's Cup
The details of a revised plan for the O'Leary Insurance Group Sovereign's Cup 2021 have been published by Kinsale Yacht Club together with a Notice of Race (NOR). The Notice of Race is downloadable below as a PDF document (2mb) Sovereign's…

Kinsale Yacht Club Announce O’Leary Sponsorship is Back on Board for Sovereigns Cup 2021
23rd July 2020 Sovereign's Cup
Kinsale Yacht Club is welcoming welcome back the O’Leary Insurance Group as headline sponsors of its Sovereigns Cup 2021. The other major regatta news from Kinsale this week is that Anthony O’Neill has been appointed Regatta Director for next edition.…

Sovereign's Cup 'Portcullis Trophy' Win is Another South Coast Victory for Mayo X332, X-Rated
3rd July 2019 ICRA
A 'late' West Coast campaign won the prestigious Portcullis Trophy at the Sovereign's Cup for skipper John Gordon and the crew of his X332 X-Rated from Mayo Sailing Club last week. Afloat takes a look at how this 'no rockstar' boat…

The Greystones-based Grand Soleil 44 Eleuthera (Frank Whelan) is a byword for enthusiasm, both for the dedication of her amateur crew in preparing the boat for the season, and in the way her owner/skipper and his top lieutenants lead them…

Bells & Whistles for Sovereign's Cup Finale as RNLI Steam Engine Rally Arrives in Kinsale (Photo Gallery Here!)
1st July 2019 Sovereign's Cup
If Kinsale Port wasn't treated to enough on Saturday with the climax of the 95-boat Sovereign's Cup Regatta at Kinsale Yacht Club, the West Cork Town also had a visit from the Celtic Steam Engine Association writes Bob Bateman. It…

Sovereign's Cup Prizewinners Saluted at Kinsale Yacht Club (Photo Gallery Here!)
1st July 2019 Sovereign's Cup
There was a packed clubhouse at Kinsale Yacht Club for the presentation of O’Leary Life Sovereign’s Cup prizes. Photos by Bob Bateman. As Afloat reported previously, with a superb string of six race wins in the four-day event, Frank Whelan's Eleuthera from…

The Sovereign's Cup Portcullis Trophy was awarded to John Gordon’s X-yacht 'X-Rated' from Mayo Sailing Club for the best overall performance under the ECHO handicap system. The X-332 entry won two races in the ECHO division of the Cup's biggest…

Waterford Harbour's 'Slack Alice' Wins Sovereign's Cup White Sails Trophy
29th June 2019 Sovereign's Cup
In the Sovereign's Cup non-spinnaker fleets, Waterford Harbour Sailing Club’s Shane Statham on Slack Alice won the overall White Sails trophy for his straight wins under IRC plus his counterpart victory on ECHO handicap, a feat only managed by Eleuthera…

Staging a major sailing event which best reflects the spirit of your beloved home port is not a challenge for the faint-hearted writes W M Nixon. When we consider the multiple factors involved in the completion of the complex four-day…

'Mata' Wright Crew Win Irish Half Ton Cup at Kinsale as Checkmate XVIII Wins Class Two
29th June 2019 Howth YC
In an intense battle of the Half Tonners, Michael Wright's Mata briefly overtook Class Two overall leader Nigel Biggs's Checkmate XVIII in the closing races of the O'Leary Life Sovereign's Cup in Kinsale today. As Afloat predicated here, Half Tonners dominated the 19-boat IRC Two…

Despite a disqualification (DSQ) in the penultimate race of the five-race series last night, Richard Colwell and John Murphy's new J109 campaign from Howth Yacht Club held the lead in Class One of the O'Leary Life Sovereign's Cup to take overall victory…

Sovereign's Cup Victory for George Sisk's Wow in Coastal Class
29th June 2019 Royal Irish Yacht Club
George Sisk's new XP40 Wow sailed to success in the O'Leary Life Sovereign's Cup today beating bigger sistership the XP50 Freya on her home waters off Kinsale in the Regatta's Coastal Class. The Royal Irish Yacht Club crew led the regatta from the…

Six Wins from Six Races for Greystones 'Eleuthera' in Sovereign's Cup Class Zero
29th June 2019 Sovereign's Cup
With five wins from five races and discarding a first place in her overall score tally, the Greystones Sailing Club's Grand Soleil 44 'Eleuthera' made a clean sweep of Class Zero of the O'Leary Life Sovereign's Cup off Kinsale today. It marks…

The weather might have thrown four seasons at the O'Leary Life Sovereign's Cup this week but it was no match for the organisers or competitors who successfully completed the penultimate days racing albeit in fog off Kinsale today. It leaves…