Irish Flying Fifteen Class Sailing News
Visiting World Flying Fifteen Champion Steve Goacher is making short work of the Irish Championships that is otherwise dominated by Northern Ireland crews at Whitehead in County Antrim today. Results to date are downloadable below. Goacher, from Lake Windemere, counts…
Dismasted Flying Fifteen Champions Not Defending Title, Surprise UK Challenger in the Wings
7th September 2017 Flying Fifteen
Defending Irish Flying Fifteen champions David Gorman and Chris Doorly of the National Yacht Club are out of this weekend's Championships at Whitehead in County Antrim following a dismasting on Dublin Bay. The excitement is building for the Flying Fifteen Championships of…
Flying Fifteen Open Evening with Adult Sail Training Group at the National Yacht Club
30th August 2017 Flying Fifteen
A fun and successful evening was had out on the DBSC race course by all as the Flying Fifteen class held an open evening for those who attended the NYC Adult Training courses during the summer. The idea devised by…
Northern Ireland Flying Fifteens Dominate South Coasts at Dunmore East
21st August 2017 Flying Fifteen
Northern Ireland entries took the top four places at the Flying Fifteen South Coast Championships at Wateford Harbour Sailing Club, Dunmore East in County Waterford at the weekend. Strangford Lough brothers Rory and Andy Martin Martin of Strangford Lough Yacht Club…
Dun Laoghaire’s biggest one-design fleet sailing in Dublin Bay, the Flying Fifteens, have launched a search for competent crew to help get more boats out on the water. The local fleet, now with 28 boats based in four locations around…
On a cloudy grey evening with stormy clouds hovering the Flying Fifteen fleet got more than they expected with strong force 4-5 winds from the west on Thursday evening. With no race last week, repaired DBSC Committee Boat Freebird was…
Antrim Pair Willis & McClernon Win Flying Fifteen Northern Championships
22nd June 2017 Flying Fifteen
Brian Willis and Alan McClernon (CASC) won the Flying Fifteen Northern Championships in fine style winning three of the four races in light winds. Sixteen boats competed in the event hosted by Lough Neagh Sailing Club, Its been a long…
There was a breezy downwind finish (see below) for the Flying Fifteen keelboat on Dublin Bay yesterday as captured from the DBSC Committee Boat by Jonathan O'Rourke. The popular class is the biggest one design keelboat fleet on Dublin Bay…
On a cloudy grey evening there was again a good turnout of 17 Flying Fifteens in the DBSC Series but all was not as it seemed as we sailed out in a force 4 westerly breeze writes our Flying Fifteen…
Strangford Lough's McKee & Smyth Win Flying Fifteen East Coast Championships
29th May 2017 Flying Fifteen
The DMYC hosted the Flying Fifteen East Coast Championships on Dublin Bay at the weekend in tricky and unpredictable conditions and the PRO Stuart Kinnear and his team managed to get all the races completed.Saturday was more like October with…
Goacher & Harper Clinch World Flying Fifteen Title, NYC's Apthorp & Green Move Up To Fourth
3rd March 2017 Flying Fifteen
The last day of the 21st Lexus Flying Fifteen World Championship turned out to be a real cliff hanger writes Jonny Fullerton. To finish on a high, Napier delivered on the weather with a warm sunny day and 9 -…
National Yacht Club's Apthorp & Green Move Up to Seventh, Goacher Sneaks Ahead with One Race To Go
2nd March 2017 Flying Fifteen
The penultimate race of the Flying Fifteen World Championship in Napier has set up to be a mouth watering finale with the title hanging in the balance writes Johnny Fullerton. The National Yacht Club's Charles Apthorp and Alan Green took a…
National Yacht Club Pair Back in Top Ten At Flying Fifteen Worlds, Jerwoods Sail Into Contention in New Zealand
1st March 2017 Flying Fifteen
What a difference a day makes, the sun came out for day four of the 21st Lexus Flying Fifteen World Championship in Napier writes Johnny Fullerton. Race 5 was sailed in a light NE breeze shifting from 40 - 50…
Goacher In Contention at Flying Fifteen Worlds, Second for Apthorp & Green in Race Four
28th February 2017 Flying Fifteen
Day 3 of the 21st Lexus Flying Fifteen World Championship in Napier, New Zealand and another semi - overcast day with light winds on Hawke’s Bay. For a while it looked like an on schedule start for the fleet of 57…
Former World Flying Fifteen Champion Goacher Steady in Light New Zealand Winds
27th February 2017 Flying Fifteen
Another semi-overcast afternoon in Napier for the second day of the Lexus Flying Fifteen World Championship in Napier, New Zealand. Just one race was held in light Easterly breezes between 5–8 knots. National Yacht Club pair Charles Apthorp and Alan…
Flying Fifteen Worlds Underway, National Yacht Club's Apthorp & Green Sixth
26th February 2017 Flying Fifteen
The 21st Flying Fifteen World Championship has attracted 57 competitors from New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Great Britain and Hong Kong for six days of racing in Hawkes Bay on the East coast of the North Island of New Zealand. While…
