Irish Flying Fifteen Class Sailing News
Sean Craig and Stephen Boyle strengthened their lead in the DBSC Flying Fifteen Thursday night series after two contrasting evenings of racing on Dublin Bay. Warm weather and light to moderate winds tested crews across races held on 2 and…
Irish sailors John Lavery and Alan Green finished fifth overall, while Niall O'Brien and Dermot Flaherty claimed sixth at the 2026 UK Flying Fifteen National Championship after a breezier final day at Tees & Hartlepool Yacht Club. The Irish crews…
Niall O'Brien and Dermot Flaherty claimed the Irish Flying Fifteen East Coast Championship after a dramatic weekend of racing in Carlingford. The fleet returned to Carlingford for the championship for the first time in many years. Strong south-easterly winds delayed…
The short blast of summer that had provided long sunny days didn’t last until the weekend 30/31 May 2026; however, the predicted rain didn’t materialise, so the fleet of 18 Flying Fifteens enjoyed shifty, tactical, cloudy conditions over two days at…
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…
For the third Thursday evening of the 2026 DBSC Summer Sailing Season, the Flying Fifteen fleet had another light wind trial! The contrast between the closing Sundays of the DMYC Frostbites which saw three Sundays out of four lost to…
The 2026 DBSC Flying Fifteen summer season has opened…………with a very challenging evening of racing on 23rd April! For the past few days Dublin Bay has been characterised by big swells, lots of white horses and rather brown water. However,…
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…
Club de Mar–Mallorca has been confirmed as the host of the 2026 Flying Fifteen European Championship. The regatta will run from 6–11 October 2026 and is expected to attract about 50 boats. World Sailing and the International Flying Fifteen Class…
Peter Browne, a distinguished sailor and long-standing member of Strangford Lough Yacht Club (SLYC), in Northern Ireland has died at the age of 94. He passed away peacefully on Christmas Eve, prompting tributes from across the sailing community. Browne and…
Dun Laoghaire’s Flying Fifteen Fleet Celebrate the 2025 Sailing Season
17th December 2025 Flying Fifteen
There was a good attendance at the National Yacht Club recently when the Dun Laoghaire Flying Fifteen fleet celebrated the 2025 season just past. A variety of trophies were awarded during a very good dinner, followed by some enjoyable post-dinner…
In the Flying Fifteen Frostbite Series at the National Yacht Club on Dublin Bay, Sean Craig and Stephen Boyle claimed top spot after day one. Their boat, IRL 3697, secured two wins from three races. Alan Green and Caroline Green…
Up for sale is a Dublin Bay-based 2014 Ovington Mk 10 Flying Fifteen one-design keelboat, featuring a full carbon design with a sleek black waterline. According to the advert on Afloat boats for sale, the boat is race-ready and set…
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…
Connemara's Niall O'Brien & Ronan O Briain are "Sailors of the Month (National)" for September
1st October 2025 Sailor of the Month
If you were to set out to think of two keelboats in the decidedly varied Irish fleet that are just as different in concept as possible from each other, then no matter how much AI you might apply to the…
Connemara's O'Brien and O'Briain Clinch Flying Fifteen Nationals Crown
21st September 2025 Flying Fifteen
Consistency earned Niall O'Brien and Ronan O'Briain their second Flying Fifteen National Championship title at the National Yacht Club on Dublin Bay on Sunday, September 21st. The Connemara duo, sailing Checkmate, scored 19 points from seven races, discarding a fifth…
