Irish Offshore Sailing News. Training Courses, Lessons, & Race Results
![Brian Carroll's Chancer leads off the start line in Kinsale Yacht Club's inaugural 240-mile Inishteraght Race Brian Carroll's Chancer leads off the start line in Kinsale Yacht Club's inaugural 240-mile Inishteraght Race](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000S3Dao.lpy50/s/767/I0000S3Dao.lpy50.jpg)
Great Start for Kinsale Yacht 'Chancer' in Inaugural Inishtearaght Offshore Race (Photo Gallery Update)
20th May 2022 Inistearaght Race
There were great starts for the host club's Elan 40 Chancer (Brian Carroll) and Denis Murphy's Grand Soleil 40 Nieulargo from Royal Cork in the inaugural Inishtearaght Race from Kinsale this morning in the brand new Irish offshore yacht race…
![Flying Nikka Flying Nikka - At 60 feet long, with foils similar to the AC75 boats used in the 36th America’s Cup, the first full-foiling monohull yacht in the Mini Maxi category gets airborne](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000EWGNEamV2F8/s/767/I0000EWGNEamV2F8.jpg)
Wicklow-based designer Mark Mills has been working on a 60ft foiling ocean-going version of the current America's Cup AC75 boats, and the new machine has just had her first sail, full story and pics here
![Johnny Mordaunt skippered the Fast40+ Tschuss at Antigua Week Johnny Mordaunt skippered the Fast40+ Tschuss at Antigua Week](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000Gw4PopqalRM/s767/I0000Gw4PopqalRM.jpg)
Dubliner Johnny Mordaunt skippering the Fast40+ Tschuss was the overall winner of division CSA - Racing 2 at Antigua Sailing Week in the 2022 Caribbean regatta season. Dun Laoghaire's Adrian Lee in the Swan 60 Lee Overlay Partners II of the Royal St. George Yacht Club took…
![Round Iceland Yacht Race The Round Iceland Yacht Race (RIR) - first edition - will start on Sunday 14th May 2023](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000tIoYdM__NzI/s/767/I0000tIoYdM__NzI.jpg)
Royal Western Yacht Club has announced a new race to its four-year cycle of oceanic events. The Round Iceland Yacht Race (RIR) - first edition - will start on Sunday 14th May 2023 from Plymouth Sound National Marine Park. The…
![Tom Dolan and Alan Roberts on Smurfit Kappa-Kingspan Tom Dolan and Alan Roberts on Smurfit Kappa-Kingspan](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000EbSF4pkDRig/s/500/I0000EbSF4pkDRig.jpg)
Unlucky but Positive Seventh for Tom Dolan and Alan Roberts on Smurfit Kappa-Kingspan in Trophée Banque Populaire
5th May 2022 Tom Dolan
Tom Dolan and his English co-skipper Alan Roberts were taking the many positives from the seventh place finish that they secured early this morning (Thursday 5 May) when the Trophée Banque Populaire Route Sur La Route Iles Ponant finished into…
![Dublin city Francis Joyon of IDEC Sport](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000_itEs0lgp24/s/767/I0000_itEs0lgp24.jpg)
Past winners of the La Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe highlight their love for the race at six months before the start of the 12th edition In exactly six months and one day 138 sailors will line up off…
![Jonny Mordaunt, Tom McWilliam and Simon Johnson Jonny Mordaunt, Tom McWilliam and Simon Johnson are onboard Tschuss in CSA2 of Antigua Sailing Week](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000yDfgWgQLO_c/s/635/I0000yDfgWgQLO_c.jpg)
The podium after the second day of racing at Antigua Sailing Week had Irish interest with both Jonny Mordaunt's CSA 2 Tschuss and Adrian Lee's Lee Overlay Partners in CSA3 were race winners. The race was blessed with stunning conditions with 15-20…
![Tulikettu, the first delivered Infiniti 52 Tulikettu, the first delivered Infiniti 52](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000LLMcD.nB73w/s/500/I0000LLMcD.nB73w.jpg)
World’s First Delivered Infiniti 52 Foiling Monohull Lost in High-Speed Collision in North Atlantic
2nd May 2022 Offshore
The first delivered Ininiti 52 has been lost in the North Atlantic just months after its debut in the RORC Transatlantic Race. According to Scuttlebutt Sailing News, Tulikettu suffered significant damage in a high-speed collision with an unknown object offshore…
![Paul Meilhat, skipper of the IMOCA Biotherm Paul Meilhat, skipper of the IMOCA Biotherm](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000ScGuapahpHw/s/500/I0000ScGuapahpHw.jpg)
French skipper Paul Meilhat will fulfil a lifelong dream in January 2023 when he leads Biotherm across the starting line of The Ocean Race on the waters off Alicante, Spain. Meilhat and his team will be racing one of the…
![Chris Power Smith's potent J/122 Aurelia Chris Power Smith's potent J/122 Aurelia (meaning The Golden One) from the Royal St. George Yacht Club is the only Dublin entry so far for May's inaugural Inishtearaght Race from Kinsale](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000Rt0teg6MSpk/s/767/I0000Rt0teg6MSpk.jpg)
Royal St. George Yacht Club J/122 Joins Kinsale Yacht Club's Inaugural Inishtearaght Race Fleet
24th April 2022 Kinsale
A competitive eight boat fleet is building in Kinsale for the inaugural Matthews Inishtearaght Race taking place in less than a month's time. The race, promoted as an 'ideal shakedown race' for boats entering June's Round Ireland Race, has attracted top…
![Class40 La Rochelle is the host port for the 35 solo and double Class40 competitors](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000hy4fJVj8b.8/s/767/I0000hy4fJVj8b.8.jpg)
Class40 Race Around The World Names La Rochelle as Host City for Inaugural 2023 Event
19th April 2022 Class40
The Race Around, Class40’s official round-the-world offshore yacht race, has named La Rochelle in Western France as the host city for its inaugural event in 2023. A location steeped in offshore sailing history, La Rochelle will become the home of…
![Bertrand Delhom By joining the OGR, Bertrand Delhom intends to deliver a message of hope to the 7 million patients affected by Parkinson's disease worldwide](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000ciHl42qAoxM/s/767/I0000ciHl42qAoxM.jpg)
French Sailor Will be First with Parkinson's Disease to Race Around the World
11th April 2022 Offshore
The Ocean Globe Yacht Race is wearing a red tulip on April 11 to raise awareness of World Parkinson's Day and has announced that Bertrand Delhom will be the first sailor with Parkinson's disease to race around the world in…
![The Offshore Racing Academy boat in action in the inaugural Course Académie The Offshore Racing Academy boat in action in the inaugural Course Académie](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000Fk2Py9l5JTo/s/500/I0000Fk2Py9l5JTo.jpg)
Offshore Racing Academy 5th Overall in Inaugural Team Vendée Formation/Classe Figaro Course Académie
26th March 2022 Offshore
The Offshore Racing Academy was not the only organisation to realise the supports needed for newcomers to offshore racing in France and specifically the Figaro circuit. For the first time this year the class association, Classe Figaro Beneteau and Team…
![Club Swan 125 Skorpios Dmitry Rybolovlev’s Club Swan 125 Skorpios (MON) skippered by Fernando Echavarri is one of the favourites for Monohull Line Honours](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000jNUZJ_F9js0/s/767/I0000jNUZJ_F9js0.jpg)
Seventy-five boats are entered for the RORC Caribbean 600 which starts on Monday 21 February in Antigua. The bulk of the astonishing fleet will be racing under IRC for overall victory and the Caribbean 600 Trophy. The glitterati of the…
![Pamela Lee Midwinter lull in an otherwise stormy mid-Atlantic – Pamela Lee in a brief respite aboard the Class40 Redman during the mid-winter west-east Transatlantic Crossing](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000M8kUKQSiYsc/s/767/I0000M8kUKQSiYsc.jpg)
Busy Pamela Lee of Greystones On Course For Caribbean 600 & Round Ireland Race
14th February 2022 Pamela Lee
When they come to write further histories of the Covid Pandemic and the world’s uneven emergence from it, they should call on the many experiences of long-distance sailor Pamela Lee of Greystones. She has somehow managed to keep the development…
![Category 3 offshore races If a World Sailing rethink goes ahead Category 3 offshore races such as the Dun Laoghaire to Dingle race (above) would be exempted from the new out of water structural inspection rule.](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I00004YeF9dcw0S0/s/767/I00004YeF9dcw0S0.jpg)
World Sailing Rethinks New 'Onerous' Keel Inspection Offshore Racing Rule
8th February 2022 World Sailing
A World Sailing re-think is under consideration to exempt Category 3 offshore races from the new requirement for documented structural inspection. Changes to the World Sailing Offshore Special Regulations (OSR) came into effect on January 1 2022, and mean an additional requirement…