Melges 15
Jack Fahy and Adam Hyland claimed the Melges 15 Eastern Championships title at the weekend with a dominant performance on Dublin Bay. The pair also secured overall honours in the Royal Irish Dun Laoghaire Cup as the best-performing boat of…
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…
Nineteen teams are set to contest the Melges 15 Eastern Championships at the Royal Irish Yacht Club this weekend as part of the Dun Laoghaire Cup regatta. Forecast light winds are expected to test crews across the growing double-handed dinghy…
Dun Laoghaire Melges 15 Fleet continued its Summer Series on Tuesday night with four races completed in light and shifting conditions. Winds of between three and six knots tested crews across the harbour, placing a premium on boat speed and…
After five great races, Jack Fahy and Henry Higgins emerged as winners of the Melges 15 Western Championships held in Lough Derg Yacht Club last weekend. 14 boats travelled to a sunny Dromineer for the first ever ‘away’ event for…
The Melges 15 class will stage its first inland event in Ireland this weekend at Lough Derg Yacht Club. A fleet of 14 boats is entered for the inaugural Western Championships, marking the class’s first regatta outside Dublin. Half the…
The Melges 15 has been confirmed as the host class for the 2026 Irish Sailing Dinghy Champions Cup. The event will take place on 3–4 October at Dun Laoghaire Harbour. The Champions Cup was relaunched by Irish Sailing as separate…
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…
Winter sailing at Howth Yacht Club came to a close on Saturday 7th March when dinghy sailors gathered for the annual Round the Island Race, followed by the Frostbite Series lunch and prizegiving. Bolstered by a promising weather forecast, there…
Yet another windy weekend greeted sailors in the HYC Dinghy Frostbite series, but their resilience shone through as two races were completed in challenging conditions. A building westerly breeze blowing off the shore, combined with a flooding tide, made for…
The Howth Yacht Club (HYC) Round the Island Dinghy Race returns on 7 March 2026, bringing the curtain down on the club’s ever-popular Frostbite Series with one of the most anticipated events of the winter calendar. This iconic race challenges…
Stuart Simpson with a seasoned Irish Corinthian team, Team Barbarians, delivered a standout performance at the Bacardi Winter Series Event No.1, which doubled as the 2025 Melges 24 North American Championship. Racing in the blue waters of Biscayne Bay, Simpson’s…
A miserably wet early morning on Sunday, Jan 18th, turned into a ‘must-do’ two hours of crisp racing with bright sunshine and 12 – 16 knots of wind laid on for the Howth YC Dinghy Frostbite fleet. The 24-boat fleet…
A European championship in Lake Garda is set to be the 2026 highlight for the Irish Melges 15 class. The class has continued to grow here following the success of the inaugural Europeans held on the Hyland Shipping course as…
A strong line-up is taking shape for the Howth Yacht Club Dinghy Frostbite Series, with entries spanning ILCA, Melges 15, RS Aero and IDRA 14 classes. European Masters Champion Daragh Sheridan will compete in the RS Aero fleet, using the…
Irish dinghy sailors have finished top of the UK's prestigious Endeavour Trophy, taking the top two places overall on Sunday (October 5th) in Britain's champion of champions event at Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex. Big winds reaching over 30kts tested the 30 dinghy champions to…
