National J109 Champion John Maybury of the Royal Irish Yacht Club has moved into the overall lead of Class One IRC on day two of the 2023 Simply Blue Sovereign's Cup off Kinsale. Maybury's Joker II crew won race two, were third in…

Defending Champion Ross McDonald of Howth Yacht Club is back on top at the 1720 European Championships being raced as part of the 2023 Simply Blue Sovereign's Cup off Kinsale. After six races light air races sailed, the Atara crew…

Two classic Irish yachts are turning heads in the perfect sailing conditions of the first two days of racing at the Simply Blue Sovereign's Cup Regatta off Kinsale.  The immaculately restored O'Keeffe family's gaff cutter Lady Min of 1902 vintage and the Sisk…

Waterford Harbour Sailing Club's Julian Hughes has leapt into the lead of the 1720 European Championships at the Sovereigns Cup in Kinsale. The result, after three light air races sailed in ten knots or less, is quite an upset in the 24-boat…

Royal Cork Yacht Club Quarter Tonner Anchor Challenge leads a ten-boat fleet after today's first two races of Class Three IRC at The Simply Blue Sovereign's Cup off Kinsale. Conor Phelan's Farr design scored a one and a two on the…

The potent J109 design holds four of the top five places in IRC One after the first race of the 2023 Simply Blue Sovereign's Cup off Kinsale. Howth Yacht Club's Indian skippered by Simon Knowles leads from Finbarr O'Regan's Artful DodJer with the defending Sovereign's Cup…

Royal Cork Yacht Club's famous vintage Half Tonner Swuzzlebubble has a firm grip of Class Two after the first day of racing at Kinsale Yacht Club's 2023 Simply Blue Sovereign's Cup. James and David Dwyer took two wins in the…

Scotland's J122E El Gran Senor has taken the lead of Kinsale Yacht Club's 2023 Simply Blue Sovereign's Cup after the first race of the 17-boat Coastal IRC division. The Clyde Cruising Club entry, which finished fourth overall in 2022's Cork Week…

Kinsale Yacht Club's popular biennial Sovereign's Cup series is up and running today (Wednesday, June 21st), on target with 90 entries, and the rock stars of the re-born 1720 Sportsbat Class coming up with a fleet of 25 super-hot boats…

With over 80 entries already registered, the Simply Blue Group-sponsored Sovereign’s Cup has less than 20 places left at Kinsale to reach its official cap. The biennial regatta takes place 21st to 24th June in Kinsale Yacht Club and this year,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…