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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…

There has been strong support for evening cruiser racing at the Royal Cork Yacht Club since it began last month. The number of yachts taking part is considerably higher than last season. “It has been a fantastic show,” Rear Admiral…

Royal Cork Yacht Club Lady  Admiral Annamarie Murphy leads the Axiom Private Clients Spring Series 2024 at Kinsale Yacht Club after three wins from three races sailed. In provisional results subject to protest, the Murphy family Grand Soleil 40 Nieulargo from Crosshaven heads…

Cian McCarthy and Sam Hunt were honoured at home on the Easter weekend by Kinsale Yacht Club, the West Cork club joining a long list of organisations that saluted the duo's Christmas 2003 achievements competing in Australia's Sydney Hobart Race.…

The Axiom Private Clients Spring Series 2024 at Kinsale Yacht Club got underway on Easter Monday with a fine turnout of over 30 cruisers and 1720 sportsboats in both the Spinnaker and Whitesail divisions. The racing lived up to its…

Kinsale Yacht Club is all set to host its Axiom Spring Series 2024 for sailing cruisers and one designs, which incorporates the SCORA League 2024, on Easter Monday, April 1st. The event promises an 'impressive lineup' of contenders already signed…

A preliminary list of cruiser racing events on the Cork coastline lists the Kinsale YC Spring Series set for an Easter Monday start, April 1. At the RCYC in Crosshaven, evening racing is set for a start on Thursday, May…

This week’s election of Annamarie Fegan as Admiral of the Royal Cork Yacht Club, the first woman sailor to fill the top posting in this extraordinary organisation’s 304-year history, is remarkable in that it doesn’t seem to have been seen…

The Commodore of the South Coast Offshore Racing Association (SCORA) has a clear, direct aim for this year’s season – get more boats sailing. “That is it, that is what we will be aiming to do, encourage boats from the…

For Kinsale Yacht Club's Cian McCarthy, owner and co-skipper with Sam Hunt of the Jeanneau Sun Fast 3300, Cinnamon Girl – Eden Capital, the two-handed entry from Ireland, this will be their first Sydney-Hobart Race, one of ten international entries…

The South Coast Offshore Racing Association (SCORA) has cancelled its Fastnet Race scheduled to start, in conjunction with Kinsale Yacht Club, this Friday from Kinsale, due to weather, but this time because the forecast conditions are too light! It is…

Kinsale Yacht Club Kinsale Yacht Club has confirmed that the UK Sailmakers Ireland KYC (SCORA) Fastnet Race has been rescheduled for September 1, 2023. As regular Afloat readers will recall, the race was cancelled in July due to the "huge…