Irish Sailing and Yacht Club News. Regattas, Race Reports & Results
Olympic sailor Barry O'Neill is overseeing racing at the 2026 29er National Championships at the Royal St George Yacht Club, where a closely fought title battle has emerged after seven races of a planned 12-race series. Ten crews are contesting…
The Friday night series concluded yesterday, Friday, June 19th. The forecast was encouraging for completing the series with 3 races; however, it did not materialise, with rain settling over Dun Laoghaire and the wind playing hide-and-seek whilst visiting all quadrants…
Light south-westerly winds of 7–10 knots provided the backdrop for DBSC's AIB sponsored Saturday racing on Dublin Bay on June 20th. Race Officer Barry McNeaney oversaw racing across the cruiser fleets, with competitors contesting a 4.65-nautical-mile course in generally steady…
The Melges 15 fleet returns to Howth Yacht Club this weekend for the class Northern Championship, with 17 teams set to contest the latest regional event of the 2026 season. Medium to light winds are forecast off the Fingal coast,…
Irish Skiff Crews Target Kiel Sailing Grand Slam Success
19th June 2026 Robert Dickson & Sean Waddilove
The fourth regatta of the 2026 Sailing Grand Slam series gets underway this weekend at Kieler Woche in Germany, with Irish sailors competing against some of the world's leading skiff crews. Ireland will be represented in the 49er class by…
After two weather-related Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) cancellations and last week's disruption to the Blue Fleet programme, racing returned to Dublin Bay on Thursday evening with cruiser and one-design keelboat fleets back in action across a range of classes.…
Howth Yacht Club crews delivered a series of standout performances at the National Yacht Club Regatta on Dublin Bay, claiming victories across several classes in a fleet of around 160 boats. As Afloat reported eaerlier, Michael and Richard Evans' J/112E…
ORC Ireland says it has now issued certificates to 133 individual boats across 17 Irish sailing clubs, according to the latest figures released by the organisation. The figures show certificated boats distributed around the country, with the strongest concentrations in…
The Royal Irish Yacht Club has announced the schedule for its 195th anniversary regatta celebrations, with a week-long programme of racing, social events and heritage activities in Dún Laoghaire. Founded in 1831, the club is one of Ireland's oldest sailing…
The 2026 Newport Bermuda Race will get underway on Friday, 19 June, with more than 150 boats lining up for the 636-nautical-mile offshore passage from Newport, Rhode Island, to Bermuda. Known as the "Thrash to the Onion Patch", the race…
The fifth Women at the Helm (WATH) Regatta 2026 (WATH) took place at the National Yacht Club over the weekend of June 12th-14th in conjunction with the National Yacht Club Regatta on Saturday June 13th with WATH racing continuing on…
A fleet of Royal Cork Yacht Club dinghies returned to one of Cork Harbour's lesser-known traditions on Saturday when sailors raced from Coolmore on the Owenabue River back to Crosshaven. The annual event takes competitors upriver on a rising tide…
The Royal Cork Yacht Club's annual Round Spike Race once again delivered a demanding test of harbour sailing on Saturday, with 17 boats competing across spinnaker and non-spinnaker divisions in Cork Harbour. The race, one of the club's most distinctive…
Ballinacurra Cup 2026 Draws 25-Boat Fleet to Historic Cork Harbour Race
13th June 2026 Cove Sailing Club
Tommy Dwyer's Rankin dinghy emerged as the overall winner of Cove Sailing Club's Ballinacurra Cup on Saturday, leading a fleet of 25 boats in one of Cork Harbour's most distinctive handicap races. The annual "All-In" contest sent competitors from Cobh…
An estimated fleet of more than 160 boats took part in the National Yacht Club Regatta in Dun Laoghaire, with strong turnouts across cruiser, keelboat and dinghy classes in ideal summer sailing conditions. Steady westerly winds of 10 to 15…
The Johanna Murphy-sponsored Royal Cork Yacht Club and Cove Sailing Club Combined Friday League opened in Cork Harbour on Friday night after the previous week’s racing was cancelled by weather. The first race of the 2026 series attracted fleets across Echo, IRC…
Ireland’s Women Sailors Setting the Summertime Pace In Dublin Bay
13th June 2026 Royal Irish Yacht Club
The Royal Irish Yacht Club is building up to the beginning of its many and varied 195th Anniversary events in a week’s time, celebrating life afloat and ashore with Winifred Kelliher as the club’s first woman Commodore. Further along the…
The 2026 GP14 Ulster Championship was decided on countback after a dramatic weekend of racing at County Antrim Yacht Club in Whitehead. Twenty-five boats travelled to the Co Antrim venue for the two-day championship, which delivered challenging conditions both ashore…
The 2026 AIB DBSC Thursday Summer Series on Dubin Bay was affected by a technical issue aboard the committee vessel Corinthian on Thursday evening. The vessel's anchor chain became fouled on the windlass, leaving race officers unable to either recover or deploy…
Two AIB DBSC Water Wag races on Wednesday evening (June 10th) saw honours shared between Swallow and Tortoise as the fleet competed for the National Yacht Club Regatta and the Women At The Helm Trophy. Race Officer Tadhg Donnelly set…
