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ISORA's 50-mile coastal course for Saturday's Dun Laoghaire to Arklow race will feature the 2023 ISORA champion Rockabill VI, skippered by Paul Higgins of the Royal Irish Yacht Club. All classes will start at 08.00 from the usual Dun Laoghaire start off…

This month's 2024 K2Q Dublin to Cork race winner is confirmed for next Saturday's ISORA race to Arklow. Tom Shanahan's victorious J109 Ruth is among a fleet of up to 14 boats preparing for the 50-mile fixture, which will, unfortunately,…

The idea of an offshore race from Dublin Bay to Cork Harbour around the middle of July seems a no-brainer when you look at how sailing types spend their summers. Many cruiser-racers appear to move along that Leinster-to-Munster axis around…

ISORA Series leader Coquine, the Belfast Lough water-ballasted JPK1030, is the latest addition to next week's 2024 Volvo Cork Week Class 1 competition. The yacht is one of several late entries into the 120-boat biennial Cork Harbour regatta, which begins…

Next week's 2024 Volvo Cork Week Regatta has released its 'initial' class bands for a 60-boat spinnaker fleet racing across four IRC divisions: Zero, One, Two and Three.  Each division is published below (and downloadable as an excel file) with…

The "K2Q 2024 " Kingstown (Dun Laoghaire) to Queenstown (Cobh) Race sailing instructions have been published (downloadable below) as a quality fleet builds for the 160-miler this Friday (July 12th). Orgainsers ISORA and SCOR say entry remains open for the race, and last…

SCORA, the South Coast Offshore Racing Association, says the "K2Q 2024 " Kingstown (Dun Laoghaire) to Queenstown (Cobh) Race, run with ISORA, will start from Dublin on Friday Week, July 12, with FG at 11.a.m. "Sailing instructions are being finalised…

After nine races sailed, consistency pays for Belfast Lough debutante Coquine in the Musto Irish Sea Offshore Racing Association Series, where skipper Alan Hannon has a .3 lead at the top of the 34-boat fleet leaderboard. ISORA published the overall…

Blustery northwesterly winds swept Class Zero yachts onto all three podium places in Saturday's ISORA classic race from Holyhead to Dun Laoghaire via Rockabill on Saturday night. After ninety miles sailed across the Irish Sea, Frank Whelan's Greystones Harbour yacht Opal…

Despite the absence of some top Dublin Bay performers, Saturday's ISORA race ten from Holyhead to Dun Laoghaire will still provide a strong test in the last offshore fixture before the season highlight of the 700-mile Round Ireland Race in…

While the first weekend of June suddenly brought summer, the last weekend of May seemed to be winter re-asserting itself on the Atlantic coasts, and merely to finish the shortened Kinsale YC Inistearaght Race(it rounded the Bull Rock off Kerry,…

Strong and gusty southeasterly winds on the Irish Sea swept Andrew and Sam Hall's Welsh J125 Jackknife to victory by almost 20 minutes on corrected time in Saturday's 12-hour ISORA race from Pwllheli to Dun Laoghaire. Despite an entry of 18, 11 boats…

The Shanahan family J109, Ruth, of the National Yacht Club, pulled off a late-race victory in Saturday's marathon ISORA race from Dun Laoghaire to Pwhelli in North Wales. The win is a significant result in one of the biggest ISORA…

Several J-boat designs are among favourites for Saturday's first ISORA cross-channel race of the season from Dun Laoghaire to Pwllheli. Ten Welsh entries, including the new J122 Mojito, will swell the fleet to over 20 when they set sail from the Dun…

Noted Dublin Bay inshore and offshore sailor Pete Smyth of the Royal Irish Yacht Club has purchased the famous Ker 46 Tonnerre de Breskens 3 which will arrive in Dublin Bay three weeks before its first major event, the 2024…

Most offshore sailors would be well pleased to have notched their season’s start with a win in April, but Howth’s Simon Knowles goes into May with two bullets already in the bag for the J/109 Indian in the first races…