Dublin Bay Mermaid Sailing News & Regatta Results
The Late Liam Shanahan Snr Exemplified Modern Ireland’s Success Ashore And Afloat
11th October 2023 National YC
Liam Shanahan Senr was widely known in the sailing community as a determined offshore racing and cruising owner-skipper and a pillar of the National Yacht Club in Dun Laoghaire, both as a longtime Club Trustee and a racing and sea-going…
Can Ger Owens Make It Three-In-A-Row Defending National Overall Helm Title In Mermaids At Foynes This Weekend?
4th October 2023 All Irelands
It’s not the first time that the organisers of the National Championships of Champions have found themselves playing footsie with volatile Autumn weather. Ten days ago, the National Junior Championship at Schull was cancelled due to southerly gales. And last…
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…
A Skerries Sailing Club trio won the Mermaid National Championship 2023 on home waters after a four-race squally championship concluded on Sunday. Mark Boylan, Aileen Boylan and Colman Grimes, sailing number 177 'This is it', topped the 28-boat championships with…
Rush Sailing Club's Ruigrok is Early Leader at Mermaid National Championships
4th August 2023 Mermaid
After two races sailed, it's tight at the top of the leaderboard at the Mermaid National Championships at Skerries Sailing Club. First race winner Alan Ruigrok of Rush Sailing Club leads the 25-boat clinker fleet but is on the same…
After a somewhat disappointing turnout at last year's National Championships in Foynes, where Darragh McCormack completed his four in a row in his stunning boat Innocence, the Mermaid Class is bracing itself for a resurgence of competitive sailing in Skerries…
Skerries 'Cara II' is Top of Dublin Bay Mermaids at Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta
10th July 2023 Volvo Regatta
The Dublin Bay Mermaids only sailed two races at Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta, with Skerries visitors Paul, Frank and Chloe Browne in Cara II coming out on top in the eight-boat fleet. The Royal Irish's Jill, sailed by Paul Smith, Patrick…
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.…
As Afloat previously reported, the Dublin Bay Mermaid National Championships were held on the 2nd to 6th of August on the Shannon Estuary at Foynes. 16 boats took to the start line with many favourites of old competing for the…
McCormack's Mermaid 188 'Innocence' Takes National Title for the Fourth Year in a Row at Foynes
10th August 2022 Mermaid
Commodore John Paul Buckley welcomed all competitors and their families to Foynes for the Dublin Bay Mermaid championship, Paul Browne, President of the Mermaid Sailing Association, said a few words on their behalf, and Scorie Walls, OOD, did the briefing. Conditions…
When the weather patterns conspire to provide wet or rugged sailing on Ireland’s sea coasts, the shrewd mariner heads for the inland sea that is Lough Ree, which has been geographically measured with some elegant 19th Century science as being…
Lough Ree Clinkerfest To Celebrate Our Classic Boat-building Heritage With Sailing Sport
12th March 2022 W M Nixon
While the sailing programme during the past two years has managed to be played out afloat in a truncated form whenever changing regulations permitted, anything which involved a significant shoreside element of socialising was either cancelled completely, or else moth-balled…
Having sailed in combined races with Squibs in the 2021 season, the DBSC Mermaid Class had its prizegiving with the Squib class in the National Yacht Club last Friday, 25th February. The 17ft clinker-built dinghy designed by J. B. Kearney…
Ireland’s Clinker-Built Boats Lead The Way In New UNESCO Heritage Status
21st December 2021 Historic Boats
Now hear this, all you sailors or rowers of Greencastle Yawls, Dublin Bay Water Wags, Foyle Punts, International 12s, Shannon One Designs, Castlehaven Ettes, Strangford Lough Clippers, Coastal Hobbler Rowing Skiffs, Dublin Bay Mermaids, Mayfly-Fishing Lakeboats, IDRA 14s, Ballyholme Insects,…
Neville Maguire Of Howth Was The Accomplished Sailor We Would All Wish To Be
18th December 2021 W M Nixon
Neville Maguire (1927-2021) was a devotedly local sailor whose racing was at world standard. Yet any civilised sailing enthusiast would wish to be as he was, for although Neville’s racing was important, it was only part of a lifelong love…
Defending champion Darragh McCormack won the Mermaid National title three years running at Tralee Bay Sailing Club today after a ten-race championship. Day 4 of the 2021 Mermaid National Championship sponsored by Volvo came to a close today with the final two…