
Howth Yacht Club Flag Kept Flying in Cork by Simon Knowles & His Indian Braves in Fastnet 450
26th August 2020 Howth YC
Ireland's sports organisations are taking a battering during the pandemic, and the operating model of sailing clubs, in particular, makes them especially vulnerable to a downturn in all activities afloat and ashore. Afloat.ie's W M Nixon wrote this piece yesterday…

Royal Cork Yacht Club Reschedules Big Weekend of Celebrations for 300th Birthday to 2021
24th August 2020 Cork300
The Royal Cork Yacht Club has rescheduled the biggest weekend of its Cork300 tricentenary celebrations, planned for 28-30 August, in light of new government restrictions on outdoor and sporting events announced last week. Many of the events, which included a…

Andrew Craig's J109 Chimaera was the IRC and ECHO DBSC Cruisers One winner in a breezy afternoon of racing on Dublin Bay. Green Fleet racing was cancelled and dinghies managed one race. DBSC Results for 22/08/2020 Cruiser 0 IRC: 1.…

Fastnet 450 Race Has Come to Mean So Much for Frustrated Irish Sailing in 2020
22nd August 2020 Dun Laoghaire Harbour News
The Fastnet 450 starts today (Saturday) at 1300hrs in Dublin Bay, and sends the fleet on a 270-mile course southward, taking them all the way to the Fastnet Rock before finishing back at the entrance to Cork Harbour, clear of…

Royal St George Yacht Club Cancels Elmo Trophy Team Racing Event at Dun Laoghaire Harbour
21st August 2020 RStGYC
The 2020 Elmo trophy for team racing at Dun Laoghaire Harbour has been cancelled. With the current measures in place to halt the spread of the coronavirus event organisers RStGYC have made the difficult decision to cancel the event for…

Royal Cork Yacht Club has cancelled its Tricentenary Parade and 'At Home' Regatta which was to be held next weekend in Cork Harbour. RCYC Admiral Colin Morehead told members in an advisory note this afternoon: "It is with deep regret…

DBSC Welcomes New Sponsor AIB Private Banking as 2020 Yearbook is Published Online
20th August 2020 DBSC
Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) has announced AIB Private Banking as its new headline sponsor over a three-year term. The good news for Ireland's largest yacht racing club comes in one of the most challenging seasons on record. COVID -19…

Storm Ellen & COVID Combine to Cancel Cork Harbour Laser National Championships This Week
18th August 2020 Cork Harbour
Storm Ellen and COVID-19 have combined to bring about the cancellation of this week's Irish Laser National Championships in Cork Harbour, one of the biggest dinghy sailing events of the year. Both the AIB Irish Laser National Championships, hosted by…

The Coolmore Race is an old Cork Harbour yacht race that has been brought back to life by Royal Cork Yacht Club after many years. After a day of torrential rain, the downpour stopped and sadly the wind died with…

After three races of the Fitzgerald's Menswear sponsored August League at Royal Cork Yacht Club on Sunday, Ronan and John Downing's Half Tonner Miss Whiplash has an overall lead in the IRC spinnaker division for cruiser-racers. Second overall is the Trapper,…

Optimist Regatta Fleet Fun at Royal Cork National Championships (Slideshow Here!)
17th August 2020 Royal Cork YC
Last weekend's AIB Optimist National Dinghy Championships at Royal Cork Yacht Club featured a 36-boat Regatta Fleet that features an introduction to sailing and welcomes children from 8-15yrs. The fleet is designed to give children coaching and confidence in a fun…

Howth Yacht Club's Johnny Flynn Claims Irish Optimist Title by a Single Point
16th August 2020 Cork Harbour
Howth Yacht Club teen Johnny Flynn overtook local ace and regatta leader Ben O'Shaughnessy to clinch the AIB sponsored Optimist Nationals by a single point at Royal Cork Yacht Club today. After four days of racing on the Curlane Bank and…

With just a week to go to the Laser national championships in Cork Harbour, Royal St George's Theo Lyttle was in top form in Dublin Bay Sailing Club's Laser standard class today winning both races in the last warm-up before the…

Royal Cork's Ben O'Shaughnessy Continues to Lead Optimist Championships on Home Waters (Slideshow Here!)
15th August 2020 Royal Cork YC
After seven races sailed in light and tricky conditions in Cork Harbour, local Optimist dinghy ace Ben O'Shaughnessy of Royal Cork Yacht Club continues to lead the AIB sponsored National Championships overall. The 79-main boat fleet sailed again on day three…

ISORA Champion Rockabill VI was the overall winner of Friday's 40-mile night race. Although short on entries, the seven boat fleet was made up of the leading contenders for this year's Irish ISORA overall prize. It was the defending champion,…

Royal Ulster Yacht Excession Heads for Fastnet 450 Race & Cork 300 Celebrations
14th August 2020 Cork Harbour
John Harrington will carry the flag again for Royal Ulster Yacht Club, as he is off again south in the IMX38 eXcession! In a racing schedule arranged with military precision, John and a football team sized crew will tackle the…