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#opti – In a show of strength for Royal Cork Yacht Club youth sailing, the Munster club took the top three places in the Optimist Leinster Championships senior fleet and also won the junior fleet at this weekend's Leinster Championships…

#oppienationals– British Optimist champion Milo Gill Taylor produced another string of consistent scores in blustery conditions to win the ten race Irish Optimist Open Series in Dun Laoghaire at the weekend. The Spinnaker Sailing Club visitor from Hampshire was 12–points clear in…

#optimist – Loghlen Rickard of the host club leads local hopes in second overall at the Jelly Bean Factory sponsored Irish Optimist Championships in Dun Laoghaire but English and German sailors are top of the senior and junior fleets after…

#Optimist – Warsash Optimist sailor Robbie King leads the senior fleet of the 190–boat Irish Optimist national championships at the National Yacht Club this morning. The championship sponsred by the Jelly Bean Factory began yesterday with senior, junior and regatta…

#optimist – Royal Cork's Harry Durcan in 70th place overall was the best of a five boat Irish team at the 51st Optimist World Championship on Lake Garda in Italy last week and this week Durcan is best of Irish Optimist hopes…

#OPTI – The 51st Optimist World Championship, organised by Fraglia Vela Riva, Lake Garda Trentino-Italy finished yesterday and a five boat Irish team posted the following results: Harry Durcan 70th, Megan Parker 96th, Johnny Durcan 99th, Alix Buckey 156th, and…

#Optimist – On Wednesday, five Irish Optimist sailors will join almost 250 other sailors from 54 countries for the Optimist World Championships on Lake Garda, Italy. Racing will continue until Thursday July 25th with a rest day in between. The…

#opti – The Irish European Optimist team return home later today (Monday) from the 2013 European Championships on Lake Balaton, Hungary, an event that had its fair share of light winds. The team - RCYC's Richard McGinley and Rebecca O'Shaughnessy, NYC's…

#Opti – Organisers at the European Optimist championships in Lake Balaton, Hungary where an Irish team is competing are struggling to complete races in just five knots of breeze.Only about half of the scheduled races have been sailed up to lunch…

#opti – This weekend Galway Bay Sailing Club are hosting the Connaught Optimist Championships 2013 in Renville Oranmore, County Galway. GBSC has been preparing for the event for some weeks now and the club is expecting to have approximately 120 children…

#optimist – The Irish Optimist European Sailing team flew to Hungary yesterday to compete at the Optimist European Championships on Lake Balaton from the 30th June to 6th July.

#optimist – On line insurance specialist, Craftinsure.ie, is to sponsor the 2013 Irish National and Open Optimist dinghy sailing Championships, to be hosted by the National Yacht Club at Dun Laoghaire in August. The event is anticipated to attract well…

Three Irish junior sailing squads were announced at Royal Cork Yacht Club last weekend at the end of the Irish Optimist class trials in Cork Harbour. The top 56 Optimist youth sailors in Ireland were in Royal Cork Yacht Club…

As expected, today was light with 4/5 knots of South/South Easterly breeze and this increased to about 8 knots for the second race of the day at Royal Cork's Optimist trials writes Claire Bateman. This completed the schedule of sixteen…

#optimist – Twin brothers Harry and Johnny Durcan in top two slots at the youth sailing Optimist Trials with two races left to be sailed today  at Royal Cork Yacht Club writes Claire Bateman. Fifty six Optimist invitees based, on…

Huge excitement this morning as the top 56 Optimist youth sailors in Ireland congregate in Royal Cork Yacht Club for the second leg of the 2013 Trials series in Cork Harbour. The Trials series takes place over two long weekends.…