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Scoring six bullets in the ten-race Volvo Cork Week IRC One Series, Barry Cunningham’s J/109 Chimaera (RIYC / RCYC) won a close encounter with defending champion and Dublin clubmate John Maybury’s J/109 Joker 2 (RIYC), which won four races. After…

Barry Cunningham’s Royal Irish Yacht Club J/109 Chimaera (RCYC/RIYC) is putting in a phenomenal performance in Volvo Cork Week's IRC One division with five race bullets. Chimaera not only won class today but was the overall winner under IRC for…

Consistent sailing from Royal Irish's Barry Cunningham in Chimaera means the Dublin Bay J/109 continues to lead overall in the IRC One division of Volvo Cork Week Regatta, according to provisional results. Despite the onboard assistance, however, of Italian Melges ace Stefano Cherin…

Royal Irish's Barry Cunningham has scored three straight wins in a blustery first day of racing in the IRC One division of Volvo Cork Week Regatta, according to provisional results. Cunningham, helming one of the four J/109 designs in this division,…

Next week's 2024 Volvo Cork Week Regatta has released its 'initial' class bands for a 60-boat spinnaker fleet racing across four IRC divisions: Zero, One, Two and Three.  Each division is published below (and downloadable as an excel file) with…

The North Channel Race is a well established offshore event on the Clyde Cruising Club racing calendar, and it was great to see such strong support from the RC35 fleet, writes Jim Dervin. After an 8pm start off Inverkip Marina…

Dublin Bay Sailing Club's sixth AIB Saturday race of the 2024 season was sailed on June 1st in light to medium easterly winds on a sunny Dublin Bay. In a seven-boat turnout in IRC One, under Race Officer Barry MacNeaney,…

The 2024 JURA Scottish Series, hosted by the Clyde Cruising Club, brought excitement and innovation back to Loch Fyne. Over four days, 13 competitors battled fiercely in nine races in IRC1 incorporating the RC35 Class, all displaying exceptional skill and…

The Shanahan family J109, Ruth, of the National Yacht Club, pulled off a late-race victory in Saturday's marathon ISORA race from Dun Laoghaire to Pwhelli in North Wales. The win is a significant result in one of the biggest ISORA…

Cork Harbour tactician Mark Mansfield maybe setting his sights on the upcoming European Championships, as part of the JCup Ireland at the Royal Irish Yacht Club on Dublin Bay and the IRC European Championships the following weekend at the same…

Most offshore sailors would be well pleased to have notched their season’s start with a win in April, but Howth’s Simon Knowles goes into May with two bullets already in the bag for the J/109 Indian in the first races…

The Irish J109 fleet is gearing up for an action-packed season on Dublin Bay with an early season IRC optimisation talk this month. As Afloat reported previously, Dun Laoghaire's Royal Irish Yacht Club will host the ICRA Nationals and Key Yachting's…

The latest news on the Dun Laoghaire waterfront is that the J/109 Europeans 2024 will be part of this year’s intense series of cruiser/racer regattas at the Royal Irish YC in late August and early September. It’s an organisational breakthrough…

Howth Yacht Club J/109 skipper Simon Knowles – the inshore and offshore campaigner of Indian in Irish waters – and noted Pwllheli father-and-son offshore team of Andrew and Sam Hall, will be ensuring that the Irish Sea is well represented with…

One of the most popularly acclaimed victories in sailing in Ireland in 2023 was Johnny Murphy’s September winning of the “Champion Boat” award at the conclusion of the ICRA Nationals at his home port of Howth with his J/109 Outrajeous.…

Tim Goodbody's J109 White Mischief won the penultimate Saturday race in Dublin Bay Sailing Club's AIB Summer Series on September 23rd.  The Royal Irish crew finished Saturday's IRC Cruisers One race in a corrected time of one hour 37 minutes and…