Irish National 18 Class News & Regatta Results
![National 18 National 18s returned to the race course at Royal Cork on Wednesday for the first racing league of the 2021 season](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000XbmUX1xBAUI/s/500/I0000XbmUX1xBAUI.jpg)
The National 18 dinghy class has been "training" for the last three weeks but last night marked an official return to racing at Royal Cork Yacht Club with the lifting of COVID-restrictions. Colin Barry officiated as Race Officer over three…
![National 18 Shark Eleven (Charles Dwyer, Harry Pritchard, John Coakley) at last September’s N18 Irish Nationals in Cork Harbour](/media/k2/items/cache/f3af908f81fcf815e159bfda847b4106_L.jpg)
The National 18’s 2021 season was launched at the Royal Cork Yacht Club class’s AGM last week. Sailing is scheduled to start on 27 March with the PY 1000 All In Dinghy Race, followed by the first Wednesday evening league…
![National 18s racing in their last race of the season at the Royal Cork Marina. Scroll down for photo gallery](/media/k2/items/cache/d474dcd11de98504e35300ca6699b88a_L.jpg)
Nick Walsh's Fifty Shades Wins Royal Cork's Last National 18 Race of The Season
1st October 2020 National 18
Nick Walsh's Fifty Shades was the first to finish the National 18s River Race held last night at Royal Cork Yacht Club in Cork Harbour. The Owenabue race marked the final race of the season for the dinghy class and…
![Fourth placed National 18 Shark Eleven (Charles Dwyer, Harry Pritchard, John Coakley)](/media/k2/items/cache/f4b463e481813b3d59884d9f574416a6_L.jpg)
'Fifty Shades' is Irish National 18 Champion After Eight Race Series off Cork Harbour
14th September 2020 National 18
Fifty Shades sailed by Nick Walsh, Rob Brownlow and Eddie Rice are the winners of the 2020 National 18 Foot Class Irish National Championships after an eight race series sailed off Cork Harbour at the weekend. Walsh and crew won by six…
![11-boats contested the National 18 Southern Championships at Royal Cork Yacht Club. See slideshow below](/media/k2/items/cache/c935ad2722bf2979821364ba57ca97a9_L.jpg)
Barry, Rimmington & Leonard Triumph at National 18 Southerns in Cork Harbour (Photo Gallery)
1st September 2020 National 18
Alex Barry, Sandy Rimmington and Richard Leonard sailing Aquadisiacs were the overall winners of an 11-boat National 18 Southern Championships at Royal Cork Yacht Club last weekend. The Royal Cork/Monkstown Bay trio won by a margin of three points over…
![Shark II was the National 18 Dognose Trophy winner in Cork Harbour. See slideshow below](/media/k2/items/cache/0e0b04633f215edba0b9dd9df2eea988_L.jpg)
The winner of the National 18s Dognose trophy sailed on Saturday in Cork Harbour was Shark II skippered by Charles Dwyer. The one-day event at the Royal Cork Yacht Club marked a welcome return to the water for the three-man dinghy…
![National 18 Shuck’em racing at the Royal Cork](/media/k2/items/cache/32fc1feac4373887fb67dff7804ff287_L.jpg)
The National 18ft Class Association has very reluctantly concluded that they must cancel the 2020 UK & Irish Championships sponsored by AIB. The event was due to be held in the Royal Cork Yacht Club this August as part of…
![The new online scene for the National 18 fleet in Cork Harbour](/media/k2/items/cache/af79071d77a5512e9972328c658c59e8_L.jpg)
Wednesday, April 1st marked the day that the Cork Harbour National 18 fleet would begin their April League. This league is traditionally marked as the beginning of their racing season. As was predicted, the crewed-by-three 18 footers had their league cancelled.…
![The Cock O'the North fleet](/media/k2/items/cache/276cc0bbeb804c0fe1459ed530e957d7_L.jpg)
Charles Dwyer's Shark II Triumphs at National 18 Cock O'the North UK & Ireland Champs
8th August 2019 National 18
National 18 sailors converged in usual strong spirit at the Royal Findhorn Yacht Club, to compete in their annual UK and Ireland Championships that were held last week writes Chris Bateman With the event officially kicking off on Sunday (28th…
![The National 18s racing in Cork Harbour. Scroll down for photo gallery](/media/k2/items/cache/8a8c6878c3b03d3c651dfd2e040052e0_L.jpg)
National 18s Race to Ballinacurra with Cove Sailing Club: Photo Gallery Here!
19th May 2019 Cork Harbour
Following the launch of the Cove Sailing Club centenary programme on Friday, the club race to Ballinacurra in Cork Harbour had a strong fleet of Royal Cork Yacht Club National 18 dinghies competing yesterday. Bob Bateman photographed the fleet and…
![Andrew Crosbie crewed by Stephen and Rebecca O'Shaughnessy were overall winners of the PY1000 dinghy race at Royal Cork. Scroll down for photo gallery](/media/k2/items/cache/e4ba51a97a75d7cfe938d11315ed8dde_L.jpg)
Crosbie's National 18 Dinghy Wins Royal Cork PY1000 Race (Photo Gallery)
31st March 2019 Royal Cork YC
Andrew Crosbie crewed by Stephen and Rebecca O'Shaughnessy were the winners of Saturday's Royal Cork Yacht Club sixth PY1000 river race writes Bob Bateman. The Portsmouth Yardstick (PY) handicap dinghy race took place on the Owenabue river in Crosshaven Cork, in front of…
![Action at the leeward mark, Shark Eleven leads from Second Wife](/media/k2/items/cache/03255f5aea2bb918ff5c1977f2bef729_L.jpg)
Crosbie Family Triumph at National 18 British & Irish Championships in West Mersea
27th July 2018 National 18
The National 18s were out in force on the wide Blackwater estuary during the week of 15th to 20th July. Winds were in the south and were reinforced by sea breezes to a steady force 3 to 5. Add plenty…
![National 18 418 Shark II, skippered by Charles Dwyer was the winner of the Dwyer Trophy for National 18s. Scroll down for Gallery of images](/media/k2/items/cache/30a6aa74dd3ee96f46ae9f39b2ad2269_L.jpg)
Charles Dwyer's 'Shark II' was the winner of the National 18s Dwyer Cup sailed from Royal Cork Yacht Club at the weekend. Racing on the Whitegate side of Cork Harbour, second overall in the relatively small fleet was Ewen Barry's GBNB.…
![Five new rule changes are proposed at June's EGM of the National 18 class](/media/k2/items/cache/151603386ba2faf3b5c569432352c2f3_L.jpg)
An EGM has been requested by over 10 members of the National 18 dinghy class. Five proposed rule changes will be proposed at the EGM now scheduled to take place on Saturday, 2nd June at Baltimore Sailing Club as part of…
![The Morrison designed "Ultra" division was launched in 2015 following an ambitious modernisation program. The Ultra fleet is growing quickly with five new boats currently on order taking the 2018 UK and IRL fleet size to twenty six boats](/media/k2/items/cache/03f319174262f35257e96b512281ba83_L.jpg)
The National 18ft Class scored big last weekend finally making the breakthrough everyone knew was possible with a new Morrison designed National 18 winning the Datchet leg of the GJW Direct Sailjuice Winter Series in the UK. This mixed dinghy…
![RCYC General Manager Gavin Deane was also helming a National 18 dinghy in the end of season crews race at Crosshaven](/media/k2/items/cache/8c2112ad68378a9a4201a22d0fceeb08_L.jpg)
Last Friday evening saw the last races of the National 18 season that consisted of two races in front of Royal Cork Yacht Club and with buoys at the rear of the RCYC marina for an unusual course configuration on the Owenabue…