Glen Keelboat Sailing
Royal Irish Yacht Club Classic Regatta Opens With Early Bird Discount
21st May 2026 Royal Irish Yacht Club
The Royal Irish Yacht Club has opened entries for its 2026 Classic Boats Regatta, with a 10% early bird discount available until 29 May. The two-day event will take place from 20–21 June and marks the opening of the club’s…
John B Kearney's Mavis Celebrates Centenary While Clontarf Looks Back on Successful Sesquicentennial
2nd August 2025 W M Nixon
It's more than appropriate that the John B Kearney-designed-and-built-in-Ringsend 11-ton gaff yawl Mavis is in the midst of her Centenary celebrations this weekend, even as his 1932-designed Mermaid class is racing its annual championship in Wexford. They've plenty of room…
Dublin Bay 21 Footers, Glens and Howth 17ths Mark Clontarf Y&BC 150th Anniversary
30th July 2025 Dublin Bay
A fleet of Dublin Bay 21s, Glens and Howth 17s marked the 150th anniversary of Clontarf Yacht and Boat Club (Y&BC) with a race from both Dun Laoghaire and Howth last weekend. As Afloat has previously reported, Clontarf Y&BC has…
Clontarf Yacht & Boat Club Sesquicentennial to be Celebrated With Two Day "At Home" This Weekend
23rd July 2025 Dublin Bay
They do things differently in Clontarf sailing. They have to, as half the time their immediate clubside sailing area in the north inner reaches of Dublin Bay is mud rather than good sailing water. But when the sailing water is…
The G1 Glenshesk, a classic racing keelboat, is up for sale at €3,500. This yacht features wood construction and was designed by Alfred Mylne. Built by William Clapham of Bangor in 1946/7, it weighs around 3.5 tons and has an…
Carpe diem. Or Seize the Day if you prefer. Either way, 2024 has been serving up a very mixed bag of weather. Yet when we look at the number of major regatta events in which the full programme has been…
New Life For Ireland’s Ancient Local Classes As Top Sailors Learn to Value Neighbourhood Sport
16th September 2023 W M Nixon
They’ve been part of our sailing furniture for so long that you could be forgiven for thinking Ireland’s historic local classes might just quietly fade away through being barely noticed. But you’d be very much mistaken. 2023 has been a…
In July, a new classic boat/yacht parade is planned for Dun Laoghaire Harbour. This event is being arranged in association with Dun Laoghaire's Coastival Festival, a week-long series of events and activities that culminates in the Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta.…
Ireland’s Leading Creator Of One-Design Racers Was The Very Scottish Alfred Mylne
25th February 2023 W M Nixon
We’re accustomed to thinking of successful and long-lived local One-Design keelboat classes as being a distinctive feature of Irish sailing. Thus we tend to overlook the fact that one particular Scottish designer created more of these Irish boats than anyone…
The death has occurred of Rosemary Doorly long time member of the RStGYC and a successful sailor in both the IDRA 14 and Glen Classes with her husband, John. With many successes on Dublin Bay, the highlight of their career…
Six Glens lined up to start at a very busy Dun Laoghaire harbour entrance and took off in sunshine and a 10 knot westerly running down to Dalkey Island on Dublin Bay with the ebb tide beneath. All were vying…
With Saturday Dublin Bay Sailing Club cruiser-racing suspended to facilitate the ICRA National Championships at the National Yacht Club, the DBSC's racing was limited to the one-design and dinghy fleets. In the eight boat Glen class, Glenshesk (M. Reid, L…
The Resurgent Glen Keelboat & Why Local One Design Sailing Classes Have Never Been More Relevant
17th July 2021 W M Nixon
The cherished local One-Design classes of Ireland have never been more relevant than they are now, in these crazy times of soaring-graph numbers when local is good. The expectation of staying local, while making do with fairly modest socialising and…
Glen Keelboat Dinner at the Royal St George Yacht Club Celebrates 2016 season
27th February 2017 Glen
The Dun Laoghaire Glen class held their annual dinner and prize giving in the newly refurbished dining room of the Royal St George Yacht Club last Saturday. Once again Richard O'Connor’s Glenluce was the outstanding trophy winner for the season.…
The Glen keelboat class video below was made by local sailor Ki Duong in action on Dublin Bay over the 2015 season. Edited in a jump cut fashion it had members of the Glen sailing community up on their feet and…
#glen – Ki Duong, who sails on board Glenshane of the DBSC Glen keelboat class, is a keen video maker. He has produced his second Glen video featuring the first DBSC race of the season on April 23rd. Only three Glens attended although…
