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Dun Laoghaire Regatta: Cruisers One News and Results
John and Suzie Murphy's Outrajeous crew celebrate another success this season with the successful defence of their IRC One crown at the 2025 Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta
2024's superstar J/109 Outrajeous (Johnny & Suzie Murphy, HYC) has maintained her form and then some in Class One IRC of the 2025 Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta, winning the final race to close on a total of 6 points with…
Final Call, John Minnis’s A35, secured first place in the IRC Class 0 tie-breaks after a competitive race, finishing the event tied on points but clinching victory in the final standings
Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta IRC Class 0 went bonkers on the tie breaks, as John Minnis's A35 Final Call from Belfast Lough blew what had been an extremely good scoresheet until today (Sunday), when she slipped back to a fourth.…
Neil Spain on the wheel of Outrajeous (Johnny & Suzie Murphy). The Howth boat took the lead on day three of the Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta
The battle royal of the J/109s continues in Class 1 at Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta, but the form boat Outrajeous (Johnny & Suzie Murphy, HYC) put herself on line for a clean sheet after the discard by reading the line…
Richard Goodbody at the helm of White Mischief, leading IRC One division and overall in the Bay race, the opening fixture of the 2025 event.
Richard and Timothy Goodbody's White Mischief took the overall win in Group A of the Bay Race after a strong start gave them an early advantage in the opening Bay Race of the 2025 Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta by winning on Thursday (10 July).…
Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta gears up for four days of racing on Dublin Bay
Singer Neil Young's superyacht may have sailed away, but Dun Laoghaire is about to rock again this Thursday as European champions are among 100-plus cruiser racers competing for IRC honours as part of Ireland's biggest sailing event, Volvo Dun Laoghaire…
A strong fleet of J109s is expected to contest Class One of Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta this July, with multiple national champion Joker II already entered
The reigning ICRA National Champion and IRC European Champion is one of five J109s entered in Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta before next week's early bird entry deadline for Ireland's biggest sailing event. As Afloat reported previously, entries now stand at…
Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta, Ireland's largest sailing event, will take place from Thursday, July 10th, to Sunday, July 13th, 2025
Dun Laoghaire Harbour's combined waterfront yacht clubs have announced Volvo Car Ireland's continued title sponsorship of next July's Dun Laoghaire Regatta and published the Notice of Race (NOR) for Ireland's biggest sailing event in 2025. Ireland's largest regatta will take…
John Minnis's Archambault 35 Final Call II, the sole Belfast Lough competitor in IRC One, took first prize in an impressive display on Dublin Bay
With its formidable lineup of J/109s inter-mingled with the RC35 group, this IRC 1 Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta class was Hotstown-plus. Yet the John Minnis team with the super-souped A35 Final Call II (RUYC) emerged out of sight ahead, on…
John Minnis and his team from RUYC, headed by helm Gareth Flannigan in winning form on Dublin Bay in IRC One Division of Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta
We've sometimes thought that the Archambault 35 has more in her than has so far been revealed, but John Minnis and his team from RUYC headed by helm Gareth Flannigan now seem to have lifted Final Call II onto a…
John Minnis's A35 helmed by Gareth Flannigan (RUYC & RNIYC) leads the biggest IRC fleet of the 2023 Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta
Former and current champions in various major regattas are battling for honours in IRC 1 in the 2023 Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta. Mike & Richie Evans's well-starred J/99 Snapshot (Howth YC) got the best of it in today's first race…
Colly Byrne's XP33 Bon Exemple from the Royal Irish Yacht Club is competing in Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta IRC One
Within 24 hours of the first races of Ireland's biggest sailing event at Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta, Division One IRC gets hotter with the unconfirmed report that a Hong Kong crew skippered by Jamie McWilliam has entered the 24-boat fray…
Defending Champion John Maybury's National Championship winning J109 Joker II is one of 17 J109s entered for Class One IRC of the Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta starting on Dublin Bay this Thursday
There will be only nine 'non-J109s' in this week's Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta's buoyant 26-boat IRC One fleet, but two new powerful campaigns are within those nine. At least a Northern Ireland A35 and a Howth J99 campaign must be…

Dun Laoghaire Regatta 2025 Cruisers One

A 13-boat fleet will contest Cruisers IRC One at Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta 2025: 

  1. 1 GBR 9222L Ctrl-J J109 0.999 Andy WILLIAMS Dominic WILLIAMS, Stefan HOOLE, Rowan SKINGLEY, Rachel FRANKS, Peter WALES, Nicholas HAND Portishead Cruising Club
  2. IRL 2160 Chimaera J109 1.008 / 1.066 Barry CUNNINGHAM RIYC
  3. IRL 29213 Something Else J109 / 1.054 Brian John HALL NYC
  4. IRL 28898 Powder Monkey J109 1.002 / 0.996 Chris MOORE NYC
  5. GBR 8933R Bon Exemple XP33 1.008 / 1.066 Colin BYRNE RIYC
  6. IRL 1206 Joker 2 J109 1.005 / 1.116 John MAYBURY RIYC
  7. GBR 2068R Blue Jay J109 1.010 John STANLEY-WHYTE RNCYC
  8. IRL 19109 Outrajeous J109 1.003 / 1.000 John Suzie MURPHY HYC
  9. IRL 1095 Dear Prudence J109 1.002 Jp BOURKE Colin McMULLEN, Robbie McMULLEN IRL
  10. GBP 1242R White Mischief J109 1.003 / 1.116 Richard, Timothy GOODBODY RIYC
  11. IRL 53222 Riders on the Storm J109 1.007 / 1.040 Robert KERR RIYC
  12. GBR 8543R Jings J109 1.011 / 1.063 Robin YOUNG Clyde Cruising Club
  13. IRL 7778 Gringo A 35 / 1.100 Tony FOX Brigid CLARK, Ralph SHEPPARD, Ivan MANEK, John FITZSIMONS, James KIRWAN, Dolphin FRANKIE, Dave DALTON NYC