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A small but potent ISORA fleet is racing to a Strangford Lough finish this Saturday morning, and ISORA's overall Wolf's Head Trophy for 2023 is at stake. The race got underway following a postponement due to poor weather conditions on…

Two Northern Ireland boats are entered into the ISORA race from Holyhead to Strangford Lough, which starts on Friday at 19.30 hrs. Ross Boyd’s Elan 40 Evenstar from Royal Ulster Yacht Club (RUYC) on Belfast Lough, Quoile YC on Strangford…

This weekend, the Irish Sea Offshore Racing Association Irish Sea Offshore Racing Association (ISORA) will be holding its 14th race from Holyhead in North Wales to Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland. Up to 14 boats are expected to participate in…

The Irish Sea Offshore Racing Association (ISORA) is set to embark on a new adventure on August 11th as it heads to Strangford Lough for a Northern Ireland-based weekend. After a season of coastal and cross-channel fixtures between Dun Laoghaire…

Leslie Parnell's First 34.7 Black Velvet of the Royal Irish Yacht Club was the overall IRC winner of Saturday's shortened ISORA Viking Marine Coastal Race from Dun Laoghaire Harbour. Second on IRC was sistership, the Greystones Harbour-based Magic Touch skippered…

ISORA has announced Saturday's Race 13 course of its Viking Marine Coastal Series off the Dublin and Wicklow coasts, but a morning of race notice from Race Organiser Peter Ryan warns the course may be shortened. "The forecasts are most…

Seven boats will contest this Saturday's (July 22) ISORA Coastal Race 13 from Dun Laoghaire Harbour, part of the association's 2023 Musto Offshore Series. The fleet's smaller size this weekend is likely a result of the clash with Saturday's record-breaking…

The Pwhelli Sailing Club, J109 Mojito of Vicky Cox and Peter Dunlop, were the winners of the Royal Dee (RDYC) Offshore Championship series raced for as part of this weekend's Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta. As regular Afloat readers know, the…

Royal Irish Yacht Club's Paul O'Higgins sailing Rockabill VI won Saturday's 12-hour Lyver Trophy Race from Holyhead to Dun Laoghaire.  The line honours winner in the tough test across the Irish Sea was Andrew & Sam Hall's J125 Jackknife. The fixture was also…

Saturday's 85-mile course for the Lyver Trophy Offshore Race across the Irish Sea has been confirmed. The 18 entries will race from Holyhead at 0930 am, and organisers expect the first boats to finish around 9 pm off Dun Laoghaire…

Irish sailor Conor Corson sailing doublehanded with Elin Jones, has won the AZAB Ocean race overall in his Sunfast 3300, Asgard. The AZAB is a 2,400-mile ocean race starting in Falmouth and going to the port of Ponta Delgada on the Azores Island…

Saturday's Lyver Trophy Race Holyhead to Dun Laoghaire Offshore Race marks the arrival of competitors from across the Irish Sea for next week's big one, the 350-boat Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta.  With a declared entry of 18 boats, the weekend…

Paul O'Higgins's JPK 10.80 Rockabill VI took line honours, first in IRC overall and first in Class Zero in Saturday's 23-mile race ten of the ISORA Series. In a southerly 15-18 knot breeze, the six-boat fleet started off Dun Laoghaire Harbour…

A seven-boat ISORA fleet is considering a course proposal from Race Officers for this weekend's coastal race from Dun Laoghaire Harbour. Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race competitors are back on the water for ISORA's Race 10. Saturday's proposed 23-mile course to…

There’s more than a few of us around who well remember the launching of the new 280 nautical miles Dun Laoghaire to Dingle race by the ideas-filled duo of Martin Crotty and Peter Cullen of the National Yacht Club. It…

ISORA regulars and Pwllheli Sailing Club Commodore Mark Thompson sailing with Phil Jackson, compete in the AZAB race this Saturday. The pair are sailing Jac Y Do, a Jeanneau Sun Fast 3200, in Class 3. " We are now all…