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Sovereign's Cup Sailing. News and Results from the Kinsale YC Event
Brian Fitzgerald of Simply Blue Group (left) and Kinsale Yacht Club's Anthony Scannell with some of the prizes on offer at June's Sovereign’s Cup that was launched on Friday at the West Cork club
Sixty per cent of the entries have already been received for June's Simply Blue Group Sovereign’s Cup at Kinsale Yacht Club on the south coast of Ireland. The 15th edition of the biennial regatta will run from 21st to 24th June…
Racing at the 2021 Kinsale Yacht Club Sovereign's Cup. The 2023 event takes place from June 21st to 24th
As the official launch of the Simply Blue Group Sovereign’s Cup 2023 draws closer, Regatta Director Anthony Scannell has announced a new prize for the best performing female helm at June's Cup at Kinsale Yacht Club with entries now topping…
Racing at Kinsale's 2021 Sovereign's Cup Regatta. The 2023 event runs from 21st to 24th June
Kinsale Yacht Club has 30 registered entries to date for its biennial Sovereign's Cup 2023 Regatta.  One of the latest entries for the Simply Blue sponsored Cup from 21st to 24th June is George Sisk and Tim Kane's Dun Laoghaire-based Wow!  The…
Longtime partnership headed for Kinsale - Ron O'Hanley of the New York
YC has been campaigning for the Cookson 50 Privateer with international success since 2006
The latest entry to register for the Simply Blue Sovereign's Cup 2023 at Kinsale from 21st to 24th June is a prime example of one of the most enduringly-successful designs in modern offshore racing. In fact, the Cookson 50 dates…
A floating offshore wind turbine
The sponsors of the Sovereign's Cup at Kinsale are to hold a public consultation meeting about their Emerald Floating Offshore Wind Project in the town next Thursday. This is proposed for a location 35 km south of the Old Head…
The start of the 2019 National YC Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race, with eventual overall winner Rockabill VI (JPK 10.80, Paul O’Higgins RIYC) just ahead of Mick Cotter’s 94ft Windfall, which took line honours and established a new course record. The 30th Anniversary D2D starts in Dublin Bay on June 7th 2023
Did we really manage it? Did we really cram all those major special and routine regular sailing events into the one season of 2022? And all that despite its three main months afloat experiencing decidedly mixed weather? And also despite…
Kinsale X-yacht Freya, skippered by Conor Doyle, sailed to ORC success in the 2022 Middle Sea race in October and is pictured above competing on her home waters at the 2021 Sovereign's Cup
Sovereign's Cup Regatta Director Tony Scannell has published the Notice of Race (downloadable below) for next June's 15th Cup for Cruisers, Coastal and White Sails fleets. Scannell confirmed Kinsale Yacht Club is looking forward to welcoming everyone back to a 'full-strength'…
The 1720s will stage their 2023 European Championships as part of the Sovereign's Cup at Kinsale Yacht Club in June
The relatively new venue for the fleet of Monkstown Bay Sailing Club will host the first event of three confirmed fixtures for the 1720s in 2023, the recent well-attended AGM has heard. The resurgent 1720s celebrated their 30th anniversary at Cork…
Sovereign's Cup Director Anthony Scannell announces the new sponsor Simply Blue & Emerald for the Sovereign's Cup 2023 at the Volvo Cork Week prizegiving
Kinsale Yacht Club has announced a new title sponsor for its biennial Sovereign's Cup and is aiming for a full 100-boat fleet for the 2023 event. The offshore energy company Simply Blue was unveiled as the new sponsor by Sovereign's Cup Director Anthony…
Kinsale YC Commodore Matthias Hellstern, Vice Commodore, Anthony Scannell who takes up the role as Regatta Director for the 2023 Sovereign’s Cup and Hon Sailing Secretary, Michele Kennelly
Kinsale Yacht Club has announced its Vice Commodore Anthony Scannell as the Regatta Director for the 2023 Sovereign’s Cup. The regatta will take place from 21st to 24th June 2023. "The club is very much looking forward to returning to…
Miss Sally Anne Baggy II aerial shot
Kinsale RNLI’s inshore lifeboat was launched on Friday afternoon (25 June) to help an injured sailor on a racing yacht competing in the Sovereign’s Cup. Volunteers were paged before 2pm following a report to the Irish Coast Guard that a…
Mike and Ritchie Evans’s ‘Snapshot’ from Howth is the winner of the Sovereigns Cup 2021 at the Kinsale Yacht Club, sponsored by O’Leary Insurance Group. Pictured are the crew with Anthony O’Leary, O’Leary Insurance Group; Mike Walsh, Commodore Kinsale Yacht Club and Regatta director Anthony O’Neill.
It took steady nerves among the Kinsale Yacht Club officer board and Anthony O'Neill and his Sovereigns Cup Organising Committee to keep to their carefully planned staging of the biennial Sovereigns Cup 2021, continuing a 1995-founded pillar event of Irish…
Bob Rendell's brand new Samatom Grand Soleil 44 is the Coastal Dvision winner of the Sovereisgn's Cup
Bob Rendell's brand new Samatom Grand Soleil 44 has proved fast straight out of the box by winning the O'Leary Insurances Sovereign's Cup Regatta Coastal Divison at the first attempt. The 17-strong division featured was the biggest of the Cup with…
David Lane in the J/24 YaGottaWanna
The overnight leader was ousted from the top spot in IRC Division Three today in the final race of the O'Leary Insurance Sovereign's Cup. David Lane in the J/24 YaGottaWanna overtook rival and club mate Royal Cork Quarter Tonner Supernova (Dave O Regan & Denise Phelan &…
Royal Cork's Olson 30 Coracle VI (Kieran Collins) the overall title in IRC Two of the Sovereign's Cup
Two final race wins in round the cans racing on the final day of the O'Leary Insurances Sovereign's Cup has given Royal Cork's Olson 30 Coracle VI (Kieran Collins) the overall title in IRC Two. Just a single point separated overnight leader…
Kinsale Yacht Club's John Twomey sailing the Blazer 23 Shillelagh was the overall winner after five races sailed in White Sails 2 ECHO Division
In the popular White Sails ECHO divisions of the Sovereign's Cup, James Matthews Jeanneau 49 Sun Odyssey Fiscala of the host club took the honours from Graham Vickers in the Elan 37 Capella in Class One. Frank Caul's Grand Soleil 37 Prince of Tides…