Irish Dragon Class Sailing News and Regatta Results
Dun Laoghaire Cup Wins for Hegarty, O’Connor, Shannon, Craig and Fahy at RIYC
24th May 2026 Royal Irish Yacht Club
Consistency and low discard scores proved decisive as the Dun Laoghaire Cup fleets completed their series at the Royal Irish Yacht Club on Sunday. Six races were completed in light to medium southwesterlies in the Dragon, SB20, Flying 15 and…
Neil Hegarty’s Phantom emerged victorious after a closely fought Irish Dragon East Coast Championship at the Royal St George Yacht Club. The 12-boat fleet completed five races over three days in breezy and shifting south-westerly to westerly winds on Dublin…
Gordon Ingate, one of Australia's greatest sailors over a varied career afloat of nine decades, has died a few weeks after the world of sailing joined in celebrating his hundredth birthday. Regular visitors to Afloat.ie will be well aware of…
The Royal Yacht Squadron has issued a call for challengers for the 2026 Marblehead Trophy. The Dragon class event will be staged in Cowes, marking the first time the trophy will be contested in the UK. The move follows a…
British crews dominated the Yanmar Dragon Gold Cup 2026 in Puerto Portals, Mallorca, securing both the overall title and the Nations Cup. GBR833 Louise Racing, helmed by Grant Gordon, claimed the Gold Cup after a consistent six-race series in the…
The Royal Irish Yacht Club will host the Dun Laoghaire Cup on 23–24 May 2026 with racing planned for six one-design sportsboat and a new dinghy class. The Dublin Bay regatta will bring together fleets of SB20, J/80, Dragon, Beneteau…
The International Dragon fleet will gather off Cowes this August for the 2026 Edinburgh Cup and Dragon UK Grand Prix. The two regattas will run concurrently from 18–21 August on the Solent. The Edinburgh Cup is awarded to the winner…
The International Dragon Class will introduce Vakaros RaceSense start technology from April 1, 2026, marking a rule change for one of sailing’s most established keelboat fleets. The system will debut at the Dragon Grand Prix at San Remo Yacht Club…
Grey Hare, Kerfuffle, Mr Potato Head and Bango Win at Lough Derg Freshwater Keelboat Regatta
12th October 2025 Inland Waterways
Overall results from the Craft Insure Freshwater Keelboat Regatta at Lough Derg Yacht Club this weekend (October 12th) show a shortened programme of races due to light winds on the lake for the four competing one-design keelboat classes. In the…
Kinsale Yacht Club’s (Matthews, Good and O’Hanlon) won the Zurich Irish National Dragon Championships on home waters in late September. Sailing Dragon IRL 219 TBD, they secured two race wins and a second to finish with seven nett points from…
Germany’s Dirk Pramann has taken a narrow early lead in the Dragon class at the 2025 Régates Royales in Cannes, while four Irish teams have started their campaigns in the 35-boat fleet. Pramann’s GER 16 crew delivered a consistent 3rd…
Three race wins in a seven-race tally all in the top four (1,2,4,1,3,1,1) were enough for Alistair Kissane's Royal St. George Yacht Club Serafina crew to win the Dragon class Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta title by a single point from…
Tor Bay turned on the charm on Day Two of the 2025 Edinburgh Cup, delivering stunning sailing conditions for the International Dragon fleet. With blue skies, sparkling waters, and a steady southerly breeze, two more races were completed in style,…
After a breezy South West Championship warm-up event, the Edinburgh Cup, one of the most prestigious trophies in the International Dragon calendar, got underway under altogether gentler conditions. This historic regatta attracts world-class teams from near and far, including Olympians,…
Kinsale Yacht Club Little Fella is Crowned Dragon East Coast Champion at Royal Irish Yacht Club
23rd June 2025 Dragon
The first day leaders returned to the top of the scoreboard in a breezy conclusion to the 2025 Dragon East Coast Championships at the Royal Irish Yacht Club on Sunday, June 22nd. With five scores in the top two, a consistent…
After four races sailed and one discard at the Dragon East Coast Championships 2025, Neil Hegarty, Peter Bowring and David Williams lead by one point at the Royal Irish Yacht Club. The Royal St. George Yacht Club trio, overhauled Friday's overnight…
