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Barry Cunningham's brand new Cape 31 Blast topped Class One of the Taste of Greystones Regatta off the Wicklow coast on Sunday. The Royal Irish Yacht Club skipper beat a fleet of 12 in the no discard two race series with…

Barry Cunnigham's new Cape 31 ripped up the DBSC race track on last night's final Thursday night race for the 2022 season.  The vid below by Maurice O'Connell shows the brand new boat under her North Sails A3 reaching kite.…

The Cape 31 designer Mark Mills says the order book for new boats is filling up for 2023 after a successful 2022 season so far.  County Wicklow-based Mark Mill says the class came of age at July's Cowes Week, where…

The latest Cape 31 arrival at the Royal Irish Yacht Club is the first of the new ultra-modern sportsboats into Dun Laoghaire Harbour. The new addition to Dublin Bay brings the Irish fleet to five, with three boats already racing…

The weather gods were partially kind to Schull on Friday with a fickle north westerly wind of 4 to 15 knots and intermittent sunshine on the final day of Calves Week 2022. Once again, all seven fleets had an in-harbour start…

Anthony O'Leary's Antix crew scored a first and a second in the final two races, which gave the RCYC ace the inaugural title on his home waters.  Six pocket-rocket Cape 31s designed by Wicklow’s Mark Mills, contested the first Cape…

Three windward leeward races were run for the Cape 31 Class competing for the Irish National Championship at Cork Week on Thursday. Anthony O'Leary’s Antix from the Royal Cork YC still leads the championship after scoring a 1-2-4 today. After…

The Cape 31 Class was once again racing on the national championship windward leeward course on Wednesday (day three) off Cork Harbour's Roches Point. Anthony O'Leary’s Antix from the Royal Cork YC scored a 1-3-1 to take the lead in…

The Cape 31 Class was racing on the national championship windward-leeward course off Roches Point today on the second day of Volvo Cork Week. You could feel the tension as the high-performance fleet approached the line for the first race.…

Brand new to Volvo Cork Week is the Cape 31 Class racing for their inaugural Irish National Championships in Cork Harbour Designed by Wicklow’s Mark Mills the pocket-rocket class started their life in Table Bay Cape Town, South Africa, expanded…

When a weather forecast looks just too good to be true, usually with hindsight we’re able to say that it was. But at the moment, the forecast for Howth’s Wave Regatta (starting this Friday, June 3rd) for three days of…

If you've wondered what it's like in the wide open prairie-like spaces of the new Cape 31s' cockpits when things get hairy, "The Cork Boat in Cowes", aka the latest Antix with Anthony O'Leary doing the driving in the Solent, provides…

The Mark Mills-designed Cape 31 is an uncompromising day-racing machine, but when two of them made their debut appearance off Howth this (Sunday) afternoon, their sheer style blew away any negative thoughts that if you're seeking any off-watch zizzes in…

The camera does not lie, they say, but it depends on how you hold it and angle it, and which lens you use. If you see the Mark Mills-designed Cape 31 sailing, you'll reckon she's a reasonably beamy and sensible…

With at least four Mark Mills-designed Cape 31s making their Irish class debut at the Wave Regatta in Howth from June 3rd to 5th, we will see one very important wheel come full circle. For it was a 31ft Mark…

The bright blue Cape 31 Arabella of Ireland's Niall and Olivia Dowling won CSA-2 in the St. Maarten Heineken Regatta in the Caribbean in March.  The Royal Irish Yacht Club's Dowling who owns the boat with his wife Olivia enthused…