Irish Flying Fifteen Class Sailing News
Strangford Lough's Peter and Juliette Kennedy are Crowned Irish Flying Fifteen Champions
4th September 2022 Flying Fifteen
Peter and Juliette Kennedy from Strangford Lough Yacht Club were crowned Irish Flying Fifteen National Champions after six races sailed at the National Yacht Club on Sunday. The father and daughter pairing led the three-day Dun Laoghaire championships from start…
Strangford Lough's Kennedys Continue to Lead at Flying Fifteen Nationals on Dublin Bay
3rd September 2022 Flying Fifteen
Peter and Juliette Kennedy continue to lead the Flying Fifteen National Championships of Ireland after three races sailed at the National Yacht Club. Leaders since Friday, the consistent Strangford Lough father and daughter combination are on eight points. They have…
Consistency Pays for Strangford's Kennedys in First Day of Irish Flying Fifteen Nationals on Dublin Bay
2nd September 2022 Flying Fifteen
Yachties, like any other sportspeople, enjoy consistency. Footballers and rugby players want consistency of interpretation of the rules when they are playing. Football has introduced VAR to try and enhance the application of consistency to offside decisions and instances of…
Defending Champions Lavery and Green are the Boat to Beat at 2022 Flying Fifteen Nationals
31st August 2022 Flying Fifteen
This coming weekend, the Irish Flying Fifteen community have their biggest regatta of the year, the National Championship of Ireland, hosted by the National Yacht Club. A seven-race programme is on the agenda over Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 2nd, 3rd…
The 75th Anniversary Flying Fifteen European Championship on the Solent came to a fitting close on another semi-overcast but warm, humid day. There was a short delay of an hour to wait for the wind to fill, which it did,…
The Uffa Fox 50th celebrations at Cowes to mark the life of the famous yacht designer has acclaimed huge success, with over 80 Uffa Fox-designed boats visiting Cowes over the weekend. The event attracted 220 sailors and volunteers and over…
It was a testing day for the DBSC Flying Fifteen fleet on Saturday with a strong and gusty southwest wind but PRO Brian Mathews and his team got two races completed. As well as the regulars there were a few…
Flying Fifteen DBSC Race Officer John McNeilly set an exciting course in the 14-22 knots westerly wind with blue skies giving what can only be described as champagne sailing conditions on Dublin bay last night. Dumpleton and Hickey led off…
New Names on the Flying Fifteen Southern Championships Trophy at Dunmore East
15th August 2022 Flying Fifteen
Thirteen Flying Fifteens contested their Southern Championships in the sunny South-East in the company of sixteen 420s when Waterford Harbour sailing Club hosted both fleets over this past weekend. The host club had three boats on the water and the…
Connemara Flying Fifteen Pair Lead Southern Championship at Dunmore East
13th August 2022 Flying Fifteen
The Flying Fifteen fleet completed three races in light conditions in Dunmore East, County Waterford today for their Southern Championships, together with the 420 dinghy fleet. Thirteen boats are contesting the Championships, with three boats from Northern Ireland, three from…
Race Officer Neil Murphy and the Green Fleet had a difficult day on the water for Saturday’s DBSC racing. Initially, the Race Officer took the fleet well to the west of the bay with the bigger boats and a WAZP…
After an extended run of light wind conditions for Thursday night racing, Flying Fifteen Race Officer John McNeilly had some wind to play with on Thursday night (August 4). The DBSC results sheet for the night suggests we had 10–18…
Sixteen Flying Fifteens made the start of the first race of the two-race programme for the Facet Trophy – an August Bank Holiday weekend fixture for the Dublin Bay class, now in its tenth year. At 10:00, the signs for…
The last check on the weather forecast for last evening, before departing work suggested 6/7 knots SE going south and dying as the evening wore on. DBSC Race Officer John McNeilly in his briefing to the fleet on the water…
Flying Fifteen Shore Debate Gives Way to Saturday Racing on Dublin Bay
25th July 2022 Flying Fifteen
Late Saturday morning signalled a change in the recent weather, with blue skies giving way to overcast conditions and the light winds of the previous Thursday night’s racing disappearing to be replaced by wind that whistled through the rigging on…
Last night’s DBSC race for the Flying Fifteens was challenging on Dublin Bay! And post-race, ashore, the Race Officer, John McNeilly, also conceded that it wasn’t an easy night! Of course, it wasn’t his fault, Mother Nature gave us another…
