Irish Sigma 33 Cruiser Sailing & Regatta Results
![The all-female crew are competing in the Northern Ireland Inshore Points Series on the Sigma 33 Elandra The all-female crew are competing in the Northern Ireland Inshore Points Series on the Sigma 33 Elandra](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I00000xavncaOL6A/s/767/I00000xavncaOL6A.jpg)
Encouraging Start For Women Sailing Sigma 33 Elandra at Royal Ulster’s Opening Day at Bangor
29th April 2024 Women in Sailing
The Sigma 33 Elandra was out racing for the first time yesterday (27th April) with its mainly all-women crew on Belfast Lough. Victoria and Martin Dews have made Elandra available to encourage women to grab the chance to race or…
![Victoria Dews, the owner of Sigma 33 Elandra based in Belfast Lough Victoria Dews, the owner of Sigma 33 Elandra based in Belfast Lough](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000HTO7FsDe41A/s/767/I0000HTO7FsDe41A.jpg)
All-Female Crew to Compete in Northern Ireland Inshore Points Series on Sigma 33 Elandra
24th April 2024 Sigma
Victoria Dews, the owner of Sigma 33 Elandra based in Belfast Lough, possesses many of the characteristics associated with the name Elandra, such as a strong personality, energy, charisma, and focus. She is a great advocate of Women on Water,…
![Martin and Victoria Dews' Sigma 33 Elandra from Belfast Lough Martin and Victoria Dews' Sigma 33 Elandra from Belfast Lough](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000a3pbha4uaNY/s/767/I0000a3pbha4uaNY.jpg)
Four of the first 46 entries for the 2024 Scottish Series this season are from Northern Ireland. They received a 15% discount on their entries, which has now been extended to the end of March at 10%. The event will…
![Patrick Beckett’s Tofinou 8 Miss Charlie is competing in Kinsale YC’s Whitesail October-November Series Patrick Beckett’s Tofinou 8 Miss Charlie is competing in Kinsale YC’s Whitesail October-November Series](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000vNhk2eQFHn4/s/767/I0000vNhk2eQFHn4.jpg)
Racing at the top of Kinsale YC’s Whitesail October-November series in IRC One Fleet is close. David Riome’s Sigma 33 won the third race on Sunday and leads the fleet. Only a point separates the top three from each other.…
![Stephen Mullaney's Insider was the Sigma 33 class winner at the 2023 Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta on Dublin Bay
Stephen Mullaney's Insider was the Sigma 33 class winner at the 2023 Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta on Dublin Bay](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000cULjU_0Si_k/s/767/I0000cULjU_0Si_k.jpg)
Six Wins from Seven Races Means Howth Yacht Club 'Insider' is Sigma 33 Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta Champion
9th July 2023 Volvo Regatta
While Scottish crews were in command at the 20-boat Sigma 33 Irish National Championships hosted as part of the 2019 Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta, four years later, it is a Howth Yacht Club crew that lifted the title at Dun…
![Squawk 2 Sigma 33 - Squawk 2 (Paul and Emma Prentice)](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000p5qRv9BBzgU/s/767/I0000p5qRv9BBzgU.jpg)
Sigma 33s Hopeful of the Magic 15 at Bangor Town Regatta's Irish Championships
24th February 2022 Sigma
In this post lockdown era, there are so many events on offer that sailors keen to compete in the big competitions are spoilt for choice, and this has never been so true as with the Sigma 33 class this season.…
![Spirit 54 Soufriere Mixed action in the weekend's final race of the Howth Yacht Club Beshoff Motors Autumn League, with Kevin Darmody's X Class Viking crossing safely ahead of Stephen O'Flaherty's Spirit 54 Soufriere](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000hs7J_rpjBwo/s/767/I0000hs7J_rpjBwo.jpg)
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…
![Sigma 33 Mungo Jerrie David Eccles' Sigma 33 Mungo Jerrie was the Glenarm Sailing Challenge winner](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000XBvllxUd5To/s/767/I0000XBvllxUd5To.jpg)
What started off as a challenge in Royal North of Ireland Yacht Club on Belfast Lough by Gordon Patterson's Sigma 362, Fanciulla, a heavy 36-footer, to Gavin Vaughan's new Jeanneau 349, a 34-foot light displacement boat, in a race to…
![Pierce Purcell Jnr Pierce Purcell Jnr of Galway Maritime (left) presents owner/skipper Mark Wllson from the successful Sigma 33 Scorpio with the King of Lambs Trophy in Galway Maritime’s premises in Galway City](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000xwTD2tCzqSo/s767/I0000xwTD2tCzqSo.jpg)
So much happened so quickly in Galway Bay SC’s 46-boat Lambs Week cruise to the Aran islands and Connemara (as reported in Afloat.ie) that it took a day or two for a more formal presentation to take place with the…
![Sigma 33 Waterford Harbour's Flyover (Marchant Roche McDonald) finished third overall at the Sigma 33 Championships at the Royal Irish Yacht Club](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I00004Ssur1XeEGk/s/767/I00004Ssur1XeEGk.jpg)
Howth Yacht Club's 'Insider' Wins Sigma 33 National Title at the Royal Irish Yacht Club
16th August 2021 Sigma
Howth Yacht Club's 'Insider' co-skippered by Stephen Mullaney and Ian Martin topped the nine boat fleet to win the 2021 Sigma 33 Irish Championships at the Royal Irish Yacht Club in Dun Laoghaire Harbour. The HYC crew beat former class champion Squawk skippered by Paul Prentice of Ballyholme…
![Sigma 33 Sigma 33 racing at a previous Vovlo Dun Laoghaire Regatta on Dublin Bay](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000.8Ig6pRoZSk/s/767/I0000.8Ig6pRoZSk.jpg)
Howth Yacht Club's 'Insider' Leads at the Sigma 33 National Championships at the Royal Irish Yacht Club
15th August 2021 Sigma
Visitors occupy the top three places overall after three races sailed at the 2021 Sigma 33 Irish Championships at the Royal Irish Yacht Club in Dun Laoghaire Harbour. Howth Yacht Club's 'Insider' co-skippered by Stephen Mullaney and Ian Martin leads the…
![Clipper Race contender Visit Sanya China has Dublin Bay's David FitzPatrick on her crew for current leg from Perth south of Australia and Tasmania to Queensland](/media/k2/items/cache/82c44cc6ef8775fb22b72580d9eefe87_L.jpg)
Dublin Bay Sailor David FitzPatrick Joins Clipper Round the World Race for Demanding Stage South of Australia
23rd December 2019 Clipper Race
Round the World Clipper Race contender Visit Sanya China will be in catch-up mode when she starts the Australian coastal stage (leg 4) on Christmas Day from Fremantle on the west coast to the Whitsundays on the northeast Great Barrier…
![Brother Anthony Keane](/media/k2/items/cache/5effdc953a1f92a00ba842c421d880c5_L.jpg)
Scribbler, my Sigma 33 yacht, was hauled ashore this week. Now she stands in her cradle in Castlepoint Boatyard in Crosshaven in Cork Harbour for her out-of-the-water winter rest. It is the annual end-of-season ritual. There are owners who don’t…
![Leaky Roof 2 sailed by Alan Harper/Robertson, Eric Robertson & Kirsty Robertson from Cove Sailing Club](/media/k2/items/cache/37db19dfa21606cdac3dec7a5f10a25a_L.jpg)
Scotland's Leaky Roof 2 sailed by Alan Harper/Robertson, Eric Robertson & Kirsty Robertson from Cove Sailing Club were winners of the Sigma 33 Irish Open Championships sailed as part of Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta 2019. In fact, Scottish visitors took the top three…
![Great breeze on day two of the Sigma National Championships as part of Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta](/media/k2/items/cache/3aaafd1212597bda0f1cc729b4b9cbc8_L.jpg)
Scottish Crews in Top Three at Sigma 33 Nationals at Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta
12th July 2019 Volvo Regatta
Scottish crews are in command at the 20-boat Sigma 33 Irish National Championships hosted as part of Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta. After four races sailed and one discard, James Miller's Mayrise of Helensburgh Sailing Club leads Leaky Roof 2 (Alan Harper/Robertson, Eric Robertson &…
![A Class One start at the 2017 Dun Laoghaire Regatta on Dublin Bay](/media/k2/items/cache/31d6783bafad84a3d2df007607d4d51e_L.jpg)
Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta 2019 Launches With Bumper Fleet of Visiting Yachts
4th April 2019 Dun Laoghaire Harbour News
With three months to go to the first gun off Dun Laoghaire’s famous harbour, 410 boats are already entered — and more than half the entries are visiting craft to Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta 2019. It is an early-season marine…