Irish Sailing and Yacht Club News. Regattas, Race Reports & Results
The SB20 Venuesworld skippered by Ger Dempsey of the Royal Irish Yacht Club won Race Two of the AIB DBSC Turkey Shoot on Dublin Bay on Sunday, 8 November, and moved into the series lead on 15 points, three clear of…
November is not a month renowned for its calms, but Sunday (November 8th) saw the eclectic fleet at the Howth Yacht Club Frostbites start in sunshine and finish in grey cloud cover, yet with precious little wind under either drapery.…
Barry and Frost Lead Cork Fireball Frostbite League Opener
10th November 2026 Monkstown Bay Sailing Club
Sunday, 8th November, marked the start of the annual Cork Fireball Frostbite League for 2026 at Monkstown Bay Sailing Club. A bleak morning dawned under grey skies and low-lying cloud, with a significant bite to the air marking the start…
Colman Garvey and Keiran Kellher's Quarter Tonner Illegal and Jack Young's Albin Express North Star claimed the Spinnaker and Non-Spinnaker IRC victories respectively in the second race of the Royal Cork Yacht Club's Brown & Brown Winter League on Sunday…
Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC), Ireland’s largest yacht racing club, celebrated the achievements of its 2026 season at the AIB DBSC gala prizegiving at the National Maritime Museum in Dún Laoghaire on Friday, 6 November. Sailors, families and prizewinners filled…
On the eve of the fourth Saturday of the five-Saturday Flying Fifteen Frostbite Series at the National Yacht Club, five of the scheduled ten races have been completed. The fleet enjoyed sunshine on the first and third Saturdays, with racing…
Rick Tomlinson's RIYC Evening Raises Nearly €4,000 for Sailability
7th November 2026 Royal Irish Yacht Club
Marine photographer Rick Tomlinson took an audience of more than 90 sailing enthusiasts on a photographic journey from the Southern Ocean to the Arctic at the Royal Irish Yacht Club in Dún Laoghaire on Thursday evening (5 November). The sold-out…
The RS Aero European Championship will be hosted by the National Yacht Club in Dún Laoghaire from 27 to 30 August 2027, bringing an international fleet of single-handed dinghy sailors to Dublin Bay. RS Sailing and the International RS Aero…
The 2026 ILCA World Championships, hosted by the National Yacht Club and Royal St George Yacht Club in Dún Laoghaire, have been shortlisted for Event of the Year at the Olympic Federation of Ireland's 2026 Olympic Sport Awards. The international…
Royal Cork YC To Celebrate 1924 World Champions James & Aileen Payne
6th November 2026 Royal Cork YC
The first international sailing win for Ireland as an independent state in 1924 will be celebrated in the Royal Cork Yacht Club at Crosshaven on the evening of Thursday 19th November. The presentation will feature a newly-digitised historic film of…
Eighty Years of IDRA 14 Dinghy Celebrated in 1838-founded Royal St George Yacht Club
4th November 2026 IDRA 14
The IDRA 14 Class’s 80th year of Celebrations draw to a close with a dinner at the Royal St George Yacht Club in Dun Laoghaire last Friday (30th October). Ninety attendees made up from current sailors, former sailors, boat owners,…
Ronan Kenneally has won Monkstown Bay Sailing Club's October Dinghy League in Cork Harbour, securing the Class 1 title with a second-place finish in Saturday's final race. The club's Sailing Secretary, racing an ILCA 7, had led the series after three races and…
Howth Yacht Club's 2026/27 Dinghy Frostbites began in unusually pleasant November conditions on Sunday, 1st November, with sunshine, blue skies and a northerly breeze welcoming a diverse fleet for the opening two races of the Winter Series. The long-running event,…
The Royal Cork Yacht Club's Under-25 team made a winning start to the Brown & Brown-sponsored Winter League on Sunday (1 November), taking first place under three handicap systems aboard the J/24 Jambalaya in bright sunshine on Cork Harbour. Racing…
David Clarke of Howth is “Sailor of the Month (Series Winner)” for October
1st November 2026 Sailor of the Month
The Puppeteer 22 OD Class provided both the numerically largest fleet in the Howth Autumn League 2026, and the closest racing with one of the most complex uses of tiebreakers to achieve a final result. After all the numbers had…
Finbarr & Colm O’Regan of Kinsale are “Sailors of the Month (Season’s Performance)” for October
1st November 2026 Sailor of the Month
The Kinsale-based J/109 Artful DodJer achieves a level of consistently good performance - both with her O’Regan owners or with others in charge – that is an advertisement for the quality of racing provided by a J/109, and the standard…
Rutland Sailing Club invites international teams to compete in its Inclusive Keelboat Championship on Rutland Water, England, from 19 to 22 November, with eight teams already entered. The championship will use six supplied RS21 keelboats, with crews of four or five…
Both spinnaker and non-spinnaker (whitesail) divisions will be available in Royal Cork Yacht Club's November/December Winter League, which starts at Crosshaven on Sunday, 1 November. In recent years, the league has been whitesail-only. The change follows a poll of interested…
Ireland's defending J/24 World Champions, Headcase, have arrived in Melbourne, Australia, and begun training on Port Phillip ahead of their bid to retain the world title at the 2026 J/24 World Championship, which gets underway at Sandringham Yacht Club on 7th November. The…
Royal Irish's Lauren Donaghy Races at NYYC Women's Championship
25th October 2026 Royal Irish Yacht Club
Royal Irish Yacht Club sailor Lauren Donaghy helped a British team to eighth place overall, including a race victory, at the inaugural New York Yacht Club Women's International Championship in Newport, Rhode Island. Donaghy sailed with the Great Britain entry…
