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Yachts from Sligo and Dunmore East will race in this year's popular DBSC 'Turkey Shoot' Winter Sailing Series that starts on Dublin Bay in less than a fortnight. With over a week before entries close, the popular event already has 45…

Ireland's coastal town of Dun Laoghaire on Dublin Bay is set to host the next IRC European Championship in September 2024, the 2023 international IRC Congress held in Paris heard recently. Irishman Michael Boyd, who chaired the Congress and is also…

The Royal Cork Yacht Club at Crosshaven in Cork Harbour will be the centre for fun and learning at the IODAI Optimist National Training Week from the 1st to the 4th of November. Over 120 boats are signed up at…

At High Water Howth early on Saturday morning, it was still dark – very dark – and the roaring breakers in the nor’easterly gale at the tag-end of Storm Babet’s secondary low were sweeping over the East Pier as if…

Thirteen Class 1 dinghies sailed the penultimate day of league racing at Monkstown Bay Sailing Club in Cork Harbour. Racing for the season will conclude this Saturday, with prizegiving afterwards in the clubhouse. Dinghies are the club’s only racing boats…

After a one-hour postponement ashore, waiting for fog to lift, the Royal Cork Yacht Club fleet got set for the penultimate round of its 2023 Autumn League. Race Officer Anthony O'Leary, with his team of Sally O'Leary, Tom Durcan and Tom…

Irish Sailor of the Year Eve McMahon (Howth Yacht Club) has won the World U21 ILCA 6 championship title in Tangiers, Morocco, this afternoon. As Afloat reported previously, after six days of racing, the Paris 2024 campaigner delivered an impressive…

Team Racers Rian Geraghty McDonnell, Emily Arrowsmith, Isabelle Kearney, Kitty Flanagan, Finn Walker and Max Goodbody were the overall winners of St Andrew’s College Alumni inaugural Team Racing Championship that took place in Dun Laoghaire harbour on October 21st.  There were…

Although Howth Yacht Club's Eve McMahon discarded a 35th scored in light winds, the Irish Sailor of the Year has a commanding 18-point lead going into the final day of racing at the ILCA6 U21 World Championships in Morocco on Sunday.…

Howth Yacht Club says the Melges 15 dinghy, a new one design boat, is set to arrive in the club later this month. The boat is touted as a fun, fast and affordable option that has already gained popularity in…

Howth's Eve McMahon continues to lead the ILCA 6 Women's fleet at the Under 21 ILCA 6 World Championships at Tangier, Morocco. After eight races sailed, McMahon holds a six-point advantage over Italy's Carlotta Rizzardi who won Friday's final two races in…

County Dublin's St Andrew's College (SAC) will stage its inaugural Alumni Team Racing Championships at the Royal St. George Yacht Club in Dun Laoghaire Harbour on Saturday.  Nine teams comprising 54 sailors will compete for a specially made half-model Firefly trophy.…

Howth Yacht Club's heavy weather specialist Eve McMahon conquered strong Moroccan wind and waves to win the single race of day three and move into the overall lead of the ILCA U21 World Championships in Tangier. The Paris 2024 campaigner is one of…

The 52nd annual Sea Scout sailing regatta took place in testing conditions on Malahide’s inner estuary on 15th October. Malahide Yacht Club provided the race committee with a warm welcome to its Broadmeadows facility for the day of team racing…

The annual lift out of cruisers at the National Yacht Club in Dun Laoghaire Harbour is usually a good sign that winter is not far, and last weekend inevitably saw the first single-digit temperatures and a sure sign winter Performance…

The Royal St George Yacht Club has announced their 2023/2024 winter training for Topper dinghies. "The club is keen to build a fleet of the exciting and durable dinghy in anticipation of even greater demand for single-handed sailing", former Commodore Richard…