Irish Puppeteer Class Sailing News & Regatta Results
You know you're sailing in classic heatwave conditions when the morning's cooling haze melts away such that, by the time the last race of the day finishes in a mercifully adequate breeze, you and your shipmates are thinking of sails…
Neil Murphy of Howth is Sailor of the Month (Admin) for December
31st December 2024 Sailor of the Month
When Neil Murphy stood down at December's Howth Yacht Club AGM after two years as the Commodore of Ireland's largest membership sailing club, it was only the conclusion of an admittedly very crowded chapter in a many-chaptered ongoing sailing career…
Howth Yacht Club's October Sailing Finale Finds Its Way Round The Lion's Roar
23rd October 2024 Howth YC
The final weekend of October sailing at Howth came last Saturday (October 19th), as the members have to use the up-coming Hallowe'en Holiday Weekend to check out that their boats and yachts in Croatia and other more reliably sunny coasts…
The meteorological gambling chips haven't quite been falling Howth's way in this Autumn of 2024. For in fast-moving weather, where one sailing area can experience markedly different conditions from those occurring at other not-so-distant places, the less favourable deal has…
Howth is a foreign country. They do things differently there. Last week's turbulent weather looked set to disrupt some of the final (and of course extra-important) Tuesday (Aug. 20th) and Wednesday (Aug. 21st) evening races of the 2024 programme. So…
Paul and Laura McMahon's 1978-vintage prototype Puppeteer 22 Shiggi Shiggi leads overall after four races sailed at the Puppeteer National Championships off Howth. With two wins so far, the McMahons have a one-point lead over HYC Commodore Neil Murphy and Conor…
If variety is what you hope to experience in sailing, then Howth is the place to be in action this weekend. Top of the agenda is the 40th Anniversary Championships of the Puppeteer 22 Class, for it was 1984 when…
Howth’s “Secret” Puppeteer 22 Class Launch Into Celebration Of Forty Years With HYC
7th February 2024 Puppeteers
In recent years, the large and varied membership of Howth Yacht Club have seen so many major anniversaries come and go – after proper programmes of lively celebration afloat and ashore – that casual observers might expect an element of…
It's Finally Trick AND Treat For Trick Or Treat At Howth's Puppeteer 22 Nationals
29th August 2023 Puppeteers
After a season or three playing bridesmaid to the McMahon's restored 1978-vintage Puppeteer 22 Number 1 Shiggi-Shiggi, the hard chaws of Alan Blay and Alan Pearson and their team on the enthusiastically campaigned Trick-or-Treat finally came good at the weekend…
Howth Yacht Club Gets “Sailing Club Of The Year 2023” from MG Motor, “Car of the Year 2023”
7th January 2023 W M Nixon
The selection of Howth Yacht Club as Ireland’s latest MG Motor “Sailing Club of the Year Award” represents a remarkable harmony of achievement between the competition winners and the sponsors, with Howth Yacht Club becoming “Sailing Club of the Year…
With six solid race results already on the leaderboard, the weekend’s seventh and final race of the Beshoff Motors Autumn League at Howth Yacht Club came through as a bonus with an often sunny though brisk and freshening southerly. But…
Howth Yacht Club's Autumn League Gets Great Third Day (If Squally Changes Are Your Thing)
3rd October 2022 Howth YC
The purple arrows were out in force on Day 3 of the Beshoff Motors Autumn League at Howth, though the heaviest of them passed to the north of the race area. The purple arrows are the ones that indicate squalls,…
Howth is squaring up to its 40th Autumn League this weekend – sponsored by Beshoff Motors – so recent weeks have seen various classes completing their own programmes, and last weekend’s Puppeteer 22 Championship sponsored by Sutton Cross Pharmacy was…
Howth Yacht Club's Beshoff Motors Autumn League Completes Its 2021 Package
19th October 2021 Howth YC
When the Autumn League started as a regular part of the programme at Howth Yacht Club thirty-nine years ago after the Marina opened in July 1982 (making for two significant anniversaries coming up next year), it was thought fairly normal…
It was considered good going in the brief season of 2020 when Paul and Laura McMahon's 1978-vintage prototype Puppeteer 22 Shiggi Shiggi (sail number #1) emerged fresh but untried from the restoration laboratories and took the national title. But in…
Howth Yacht Club's Historic Lambay Race Attracts 78 Keelboats Despite Club-Only Format
15th June 2021 Howth YC
With official club racing only permissible since last Monday, June 7th, and many fit-out schedules delayed through May's atrocious weather, the realists had been hoping for a turnout of maybe around 40 boats for Howth YC's opening major event of…
