With the 2022 ICRA National Championships combining with Cork Week next July, the cruiser-racer body is inviting potential host clubs to 'apply' to host its National Championships in 2023 and also 2024.
The 2021 Championships, the first to be held in nearly two years was hosted by the National Yacht Club at Dun Laoghaire Harbour earlier this month.
The championships typically attract around 80 to 100 boats when staged in the Dublin area.
The pandemic put paid to the 2020 championships which were initially cancelled in Cork in July, then rescheduled to Howth in September 2020 but unfortunately then cancelled for a second time.
Prior to that, the 2019 championships were staged by the Royal St.George Yacht Club in Dun Laoghaire and attracted 100 boats and before that the ICRAs headed to Galway for the first time in 2018 only to be blown out.
The event has so far never been held in Northern Ireland.
The association has a set of criteria for the staging of the event with the stated objective for its national championships to be "a first-class national championship recognised as the pinnacle of domestic inshore yacht racing in Ireland".
Any club interested should send an expression of interest to [email protected] by 15th October.