Irish Offshore Sailing News. Training Courses, Lessons, & Race Results
A Howth Yacht Club crew will represent Ireland in the 2026 Aegean 600 when the international offshore race starts from Athens, Greece, on Sunday, 5 July. Skipper Darren Wright leads Xcalibur Team HYC in the 605-nautical-mile race, which begins at…
Twenty-six Sea Cadets from across the UK will represent their country in this summer's Tall Ships Races aboard the sail training brig TS Royalist. With an average age of just 17, the crew will be among the youngest in the…
The Royal Ocean Racing Club's historic Cowes-Dinard-St Malo Race returns on Friday, July 3, with a strong international fleet contesting the 150-nautical-mile Channel classic. The race starts from the Royal Yacht Squadron Line in Cowes before heading west through the…
Black Jack 100 claimed line honours in the 2026 Newport Bermuda Race after a rapid passage from Newport to Bermuda that came within an hour of the race record. Skipper Tristan Le Brun's 100-footer crossed the finish line off St…
Dubliner Pete Smyth's Ker 46 Searcher 2 completed the 73rd Loro Piana Giraglia offshore race in 18th place overall under IRC and 14th in IRC 1, as more than 1,000 sailors from 49 nations converged on Genoa for the finish…
Atalanta II and Proteus emerged as the leading maxi yachts at the conclusion of the 73rd Loro Piana Giraglia, one of the Mediterranean's premier offshore sailing events. The Yacht Club Italiano and Société Nautique de Saint-Tropez-organised regatta concluded in Genoa…
An Irish sailor will take on one of the biggest challenges of her offshore racing career when the Round Ireland Yacht Race starts from Wicklow this weekend. Twenty-three-year-old Róisín Hanrahan has been named navigator aboard the JPK 11.80 Sunrise, one of…
The 54th Newport Bermuda Race gets underway on Friday from Fort Adams in Rhode Island, launching nearly 150 boats on the 635-nautical-mile offshore passage to Bermuda. This year's race marks the 120th anniversary of one of the world's most famous…
Alpha+ and Sled moved into a share of the lead after the third day of racing at the Rolex TP52 World Championship in Porto Cervo, Italy. Level Terms: Alpha+ (46) and Sled (05) race bow-to-bow off Porto Cervo. The two…
Furio Benussi's 100-foot maxi ARCA SGR has claimed line honours in the 2026 Loro Piana Giraglia offshore race. The Italian entry completed the classic Mediterranean challenge from Saint-Tropez to Genoa via the Giraglia Rock in an elapsed time of 1…
Irish offshore sailor Pamela Lee faces one of the strongest Class40 line-ups ever assembled for the Round Ireland Yacht Race when the 704-nautical-mile race starts from Wicklow on Saturday. Lee arrives at the start following a top-ten finish in the…
French team Paprec moved into the overall lead of the Rolex TP52 World Championship after a strong second day of racing in Porto Cervo, Sardinia. A race win and a third-place finish in Wednesday's two races lifted the team, with…
Fleet Set for Offshore Showdown at Loro Piana Giraglia, Searcher 2 Lying 12th
16th June 2026 Offshore
The 73rd Loro Piana Giraglia inshore series concluded in Saint-Tropez on Tuesday, setting the stage for the regatta's headline offshore race to Genoa. A fleet of 145 boats completed the final day of coastal racing in light north-easterly winds on…
Italian skipper Ambrogio Beccaria produced a remarkable comeback to win the 2026 Vendée Arctique – Les Sables d'Olonne. The skipper of Allagrande Mapei crossed the finish line at 03:07 local time on Tuesday, 16 June, after 8 days, 14 hours,…
The 2026 Newport Bermuda Race will get underway on Friday, 19 June, with more than 150 boats lining up for the 636-nautical-mile offshore passage from Newport, Rhode Island, to Bermuda. Known as the "Thrash to the Onion Patch", the race…
A West Coast family’s Atlantic sailing adventure is the theme of a talk this weekend in the Galway City Museum. Across the Atlantic - A Family Adventure with a Message from the Deep is the title of the talk by…
