ISORA
Although there is not a specifically Irish boat in the 30-plus fleet starting on Sunday August 9th from Cowes in the Golden Jubilee of the 1800-mile RORC quadrennial circuit of Britain and Ireland, there are Irish crews to be found…
ISORA has introduced a new offshore finish for Saturday's Dún Laoghaire Coastal Race, replacing the traditional harbour entrance finish as competitors prepare for the fourth race of the 2026 Viking Marine Coastal Series. The revised sailing instructions move the finish…
Pata Negra completed a commanding double in Saturday's Musto ISORA Championship race from Pwllheli to Greystones, taking both line honours and IRC overall victory after a hard-fought beat across the Irish Sea. Andrew Hall's Lombard 46 covered the 73-nautical-mile course…
A fleet of 10 confirmed entries will contest Saturday's MUSTO ISORA Championship offshore race from Pwllheli to Greystones after competitors finalised their plans this week. The 70-nautical-mile crossing is the seventh offshore race of the 2026 championship and carries a…
The ISORA offshore fleet returns to action on Saturday (July 25th) with the latest race of the 2026 championship, a 70-nautical-mile passage from Pwllheli to Greystones that is expected to provide another important test in the season-long series. The race…
ISORA's seventh offshore race of the 2026 Musto Championship will finish at Greystones Harbour Marina instead of Arklow, organisers have confirmed. The 75-mile race from Pwllheli on Saturday, July 25, had been listed throughout the season as finishing at a…
The 2026 Kingstown to Queenstown Race gets under way on Friday with a 12-boat fleet set to tackle the 160-nautical-mile offshore passage from Dun Laoghaire to Cork Harbour. The race is a key fixture in the ISORA Championship and follows…
John Malone's Loinnir Girl will sit out this Friday's (July 4th) K2Q (Kingstown to Queenstown) Race after an intensive month of offshore competition that included success in both the Round Ireland Race and the Inishtearaght Race. The red and white-hulled…
The 2026 Musto ISORA Championship resumes this Friday with one of the series' classic fixtures as the fleet races from Dún Laoghaire to Cork in the 160-mile Kingstown to Queenstown (K2Q) Offshore Race. Race 13 of this year's championship starts…
Defending champion Pata Negra leads the 2026 MUSTO ISORA overall standings after the latest results update, which now includes the Round Ireland Race, Irish Coastal Series and Welsh Coastal 10-Hour Race scores. The provisional Sailwave results, updated on June 28,…
Justin Burke's JPK 10.30 ReQuest claimed line honours and IRC overall victory in Saturday's ISORA Viking Marine Coastal Series race at Dún Laoghaire. Sailed as part of the Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin Royal Irish Yacht Club Regatta, the race attracted…
Seven years after winning one of the Irish Sea's oldest offshore races, Chris Power Smith is still waiting to pose with the trophy that came with victory. The Royal St George Yacht Club skipper's Aurelia won the 100th Isle of…
Andrew and Sam Hall's Pata Negra claimed overall victory in the 105th edition of Liverpool Yacht Club's Isle of Man Midnight Race, one of the oldest offshore yacht races in the Irish Sea. The race traces its origins to 1907…
The second leg of this weekend's ISORA Isle of Man double-header has been cancelled following a recommendation from the race safety team. Race Nine, scheduled to take the fleet from Douglas to Dún Laoghaire on Sunday, was called off after…
After the successful staging of the Inishtearaght Race from Kinsale, attention switches back to the Irish Sea this weekend as ISORA's offshore fleet prepares for a key double-header centred on the Isle of Man. The Liverpool-Douglas and Douglas-Dún Laoghaire races…
Pata Negra claimed both line honours and provisional IRC overall victory in Saturday’s ISORA offshore race from Holyhead to Dún Laoghaire, sealing the win with a spinnaker finish on Dublin Bay. The Lombard 46, campaigned by Andrew and Sam Hall…
