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New Bespoke Trophies Unveiled by Kinsale Yacht Club for Inishtearaght Race
28th May 2026 Inistearaght Race
Kinsale Yacht Club and race sponsor Cantor Fitzgerald have unveiled a new set of bespoke trophies for this Friday's Inishtearaght Skelligs Race. The trophies were presented at a club function on Tuesday night and have been specially commissioned for the…
Being family-oriented, encouraging sailing that combines good racing with leisure, is at the heart of Calves Week in Schull, West Cork, where there are already sixteen boats on the entry list for the event in August. Mark Murphy, Communications and…
The fun is back in sailing, and there are more families, older and younger people, active in the sport on the South Coast. That was the encouraging view which the Commodore of the South Coast Offshore Sailing Association, Daragh Connolly,…
Nine Boats Enter For Kinsale's 2026 Inishtearaght Skelligs Race
20th December 2025 Inistearaght Race
Kinsale Yacht Club has confirmed nine early entries for the 2026 Inishtearaght Skelligs Race and announced a new title sponsor. The biennial offshore race will take place over the June Bank Holiday weekend in partnership with SCORA. As previously reported,…
kiAn Albin Express with an extensive racing record has sold within a week and is set to join the fleet in Cork Harbour. Apache, listed at €8,950, drew immediate interest due to its condition and competitive pedigree. The seller described…
RStGYC's Chris Power-Smith to Defend Title in Kinsale's Newly Renamed 'Inishtearaght Skelligs Race'
3rd November 2025 Inistearaght Race
Defending champion Chris Power-Smith will return to the start line as Kinsale Yacht Club hosts the biennial offshore race—now rebranded as the 2026 Inishtearaght Skelligs Race—over the June Bank Holiday weekend in partnership with SCORA. The race, formerly known as…
Cian McCarthy's Sunfast 3300 Cinnamon Girl made easy work of the modest fleet that sailed on Saturday (May 24) in the UK Sailmakers Ireland Kinsale Yacht Club SCORA Fastnet Race. The three-boat fleet's provisional results (below) saw McCarthy take an IRC…
Kinsale Yacht Club on Cork's southern coastline is returning to the format of pre-Covid years for its racing programme this season; Vice Commodore Anthony O'Neill has told members. Its Fastnet Race will be held on alternative years with the Inishteraght…
The top boats on the South Coast were presented with their 2024 awards at the annual general meeting of SCORA, the South Coast Offshore Racing Association, in the Royal Cork Yacht Club in Crosshaven on Friday night (January 31). Thirteen…
Royal Cork Evening Racing Ends, Autumn League is Next for Cork Harbour
17th September 2024 Royal Cork YC
Evening keelboat racing has ended at the Royal Cork Yacht Club in Crosshaven and entry has been opened for the Autumn League which will start on Sunday, September 29 for a series of races over five Sundays until October 27.…
Kinsale Yacht Club has cancelled Friday's (August 23) scheduled Fastnet Race because only one entry was received. "We are standing down the Fastnet Race," the club says in a statement. "We are aware that there are a lot of offshore…
George Radley’s long-time and hard-campaigned IMP,’ from Cove SC and the RCYC, won the SCORA/KYC Kinsale to Baltimore Race on Saturday in both IRC and ECHO divisions, which is also a ‘feeder’ race to Calves Week being sailed in Schull…
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 Leader 'Coquine' is Cork Bound in Friday's K2Q Race and Among Late Entries into Volvo Cork Week's IRC Fleet
11th July 2024 Cork Week
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…
Friday's 'K2Q' Builds a Quality Fleet for Dublin Bay to Cork Harbour Race as Sailing Instructions are Published
8th July 2024 Fastnet 450 Race
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…
