Irish Sailing and Yacht Club News. Regattas, Race Reports & Results
Dubliner Paul Keogh Receives Top Trophy For His Dedication to Promoting Traditional Gaff Rig
17th January 2022 Dublin Bay Old Gaffers
For many years until her transfer to Galway in 2021, the Clondalkin community-built Galway Hooker Naomh Cronan was a feature of sailing life in Dublin’s River Liffey at Poolbeg Y&BC in Ringsend, and she was a regular attendee at traditional…
Dublin Bay Sailing Club has published the Notice of Race for its 2022 Spring Chicken series. Six races will be held on Sunday mornings from 6 February to 13 March (first gun 1010 hrs), using a progressive handicap on a…
Royal St George's Phantom is Top Irish Dragon as 2024 Gold Cup in Kinsale Comes Closer
11th January 2022 Dragon
The Irish Dragon Fleet continues to build interest as the 2024 Gold Cup in Kinsale comes closer. News that the Glandore and Kinsale fleets particularly are experiencing strong growth in numbers and standard of sailors is contained in the International…
Kieran O’Connell Elected Admiral of Royal Cork Yacht Club at 301st AGM
9th January 2022 Royal Cork YC
At the 301st AGM last Thursday evening, Kieran O’Connell was elected the 43rd Admiral of the Royal Cork Yacht Club. In his acceptance speech, O'Connell thanked Past Admiral Colin Morehead for the manner in which he executed his role over…
Gordon Maguire is Sailor of the Month (International) for December
1st January 2022 Sailor of the Month
With his fifth win of the Rolex Sydney-Hobart Race’s prized Tattersall Cup for overall victory – with the most recent wins being three in a row with Matt Allen’s TP52 Ichi Ban – ex-Pat Howth sailor Gordon Maguire has confirmed…
Wexford, Skerries, Rush, Derrynane, Malahide, Howth & Dun Laoghaire In Top Eight Places In Howth's Key Capital Laser Frostbites
21st December 2021 Howth YC
In ancient Greece, the mythological Halcyon Days at mid-winter were the calm and bright time around the Winter Solstice. In Ireland, a calm at midwinter (the Solstice is at 3.59 pm this (Tuesday) afternoon) tends to bring grey days, and…
Elan 333 'White Lotus' Wins 21st DBSC Turkey Shoot at Royal Irish Yacht Club
21st December 2021 Turkey Shoot
The white-sailed Elan 333 White Lotus was the overall winner of the 21st DBSC Turkey Shoot Series on Dublin Bay on Sunday. A final light air seventh race for the 75-boat fleet saw a change in the overall results, with…
Neville Maguire Of Howth Was The Accomplished Sailor We Would All Wish To Be
18th December 2021 W M Nixon
Neville Maguire (1927-2021) was a devotedly local sailor whose racing was at world standard. Yet any civilised sailing enthusiast would wish to be as he was, for although Neville’s racing was important, it was only part of a lifelong love…
Howth Yacht Club's Eve McMahon continues to be the top Irish performer after another big day on the water at the 2021 Youth Sailing World Championships om Oman. With 11 events due to be decided by the end of this…
Jack Roy’s Huge Contribution To Sailing Was Only One Part Of An Exceptional Life
14th December 2021 News Update
When we published a comprehensive overview of Jack Roy’s achievement-filled career ashore and afloat on 14th July 2017, it was in light of his recently-elected position as President of Irish Sailing. With someone who lived life a hundred per cent…
Good Start for Howth's Eve McMahon & RCYC's 29er Duo at World Youth Sailing Championships in Oman
14th December 2021 Youth Sailing
Howth Yacht Club's Eve McMahon is in the top five of the Youth Sailing World Championships after day one delivered stunning weather for the start of the championships in Mussanah, Oman. The Irish Radial youth world champion took an 11 and…
The launch of the long-awaited 5o5 Book telling the story of the 5o5 and how it has come to dominate the performance dinghy scene will finally be launched at the World Championship in Cork. 2022 is already shaping up to…
Neville Maguire of Howth has died much-mourned today (Monday) at the age of 95. The father of international ace Gordon Maguire, Neville himself was one of Ireland's most accomplished and popular sailors inshore and offshore, whether racing or cruising and…
Royal Cork Yacht Club Celebrates O'Leary Insurance Winter League Prizewinners
12th December 2021 Royal Cork YC
Strong winds in Cork Harbour meant the O'Leary Insurance Winter League at Royal Cork Yacht Club concluded on Sunday without further racing for the 32-boat mixed cruiser fleet. Fiona Young's consistent performance at the top of the IRC fleet in North…
French Involvement Encouraged as Classic Yacht Class Is Announced for Volvo Cork Week 2022
12th December 2021 Cork Week
Classic yacht owners in France have been encouraged to join Volvo Cork Week 2022 with the introduction of a dedicated class at next summer’s regatta. Royal Cork Yacht Club Admiral Colin Morehead made the announcement at the 2021 Paris Boat…
As noted recently on Afloat.ie, the historic Kingstown to Queenstown Race will return in 2022 in a modern-day format — reviving the tradition of a race first run in 1860. Hosted by the Royal Cork Yacht Club, National Yacht Club…
For casual observers, conditions looked miserably grey for yesterday (Saturday’s) final race of Part 1 of Howth YC’s annual Brass Monkey through-winter series. But those bustling cheerfully ashore afterwards were full of enthusiasm for a great racing breeze from the…
The Royal Cork Yacht Club has confirmed that two Irish Cape 31s which are currently in build, one from Cork and one from Dublin, have now entered Volvo Cork Week 2022. The entry form and advance notice of regatta are…
The death of former Irish Sailing President and Olympic Games Race Officer Jack Roy of Greystones and Dun Laoghaire has deprived our sport of one of its most popular and enthusiastic devotees, both in terms of services to sailing and in…
DBSC Commodore Ann Kirwan addressed members of the country's biggest sailing club at its 2021 online AGM last Friday. It was an opportunity to review the many champagne sailing days of the summer and some great turnouts for the 698…
