Irish Sailing and Yacht Club News. Regattas, Race Reports & Results
Royal Ulster Yacht Excession Heads for Fastnet 450 Race & Cork 300 Celebrations
14th August 2020 Northern Ireland Waters
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…
Dublin Bay recent arrival Prima Forte was the winner of tonight's DBSC Cruisers Zero IRC race beating the First 40.7 Tsunami. Third was the XP44, George Sisk's WOW. A 107-strong fleet across all classes enjoyed a light North Westerly Force…
The SB20 class were overwhelmed by an enthusiastic response from Techworks Marine to sponsor this first event of the season, for which the class are very appreciative, and the marine data company were represented on the water by CEO, Charlotte…
Royal Cork Yacht Club is leaving no stone unturned in its efforts to stage next week's Laser dinghy National Championships, one of the flagship events of its tricentenary celebrations in Cork Harbour. With the postponement of Phase 4 COVID 19…
Notice Of Race & Entry Form For Next Month’s Dun Laoghaire Regatta Now Online
10th August 2020 Dun Laoghaire Harbour News
The Notice of Race and entry form are now available for next month’s Dun Laoghaire Regatta, celebrating the National Yacht Club’s 150th anniversary. This special event, an initiative of all five Dun Laoghaire waterfront clubs, will take place over the…
Fastnet 450: 16 Entries & Counting for New Dublin to Cork Offshore Sailing Race
10th August 2020 Fastnet 450 Race
John O'Gorman's Sunfast 3600 Hot Cookie from the National Yacht Club is the latest entry into Ireland's newest offshore sailing race. With 12 days to go to the start of the inaugural Fastnet 450 Race from Dublin to Cork via…
The Howth 17 Nationals 2020 saw five good races sailed – a pier starter on Friday evening, and four committee boat open water races on Saturday – with the sunny nor’east wind holding up enough for the four open water…
A J80 keelboat stolen from the National Yacht Club in Dun Laoghaire Harbour was the centre of a Dublin Bay rescue story last week that made headlines in The Irish Daily Star! A thief took the yacht and outboard engine…
Andrew Craig's J109 Chimaera from the Royal Irish Yacht Club was the Cruiser 1 IRC winner in Saturday's Dublin Bay Sailing Club Race. 108 boats across all classes turned out to race in a light North Easterly breeze. Second to…
Royal St. George's 'Dubious' Wins DBSC Cruisers Three Race (Full Results HERE!)
6th August 2020 DBSC
107 DBSC keelboats took on a fresh southerly wind on Dublin Bay this evening for the club's Thursday night race. Cruisers Zero, won by Paul O'Higgins JPK 10.80 Rockabill VI, of the Royal Irish Yacht Club, had a 100% turnout.…
It is with great reluctance that Irish Sailing have decided, along with hosts the National Yacht Club, to cancel the Women at the Helm regatta that had been set to take place later this month, writes Gail McAllister. Despite the…
SCORA Signs Up 21 Boats (So Far) for New Dublin to Cork 'Pop-Up' Offshore Yacht Race (Download NOR Here!)
7th August 2020 SCORA
The winner of last weekend's Kinsale Fastnet Race is among the first entries for SCORA’s new Dublin Bay to Cork Harbour race. Denis and Annamarie Murphy’s Grand Soleil 40 Nieulargo that showed a clean pair of heels to the 11-boat…
Howth Seventeens Crank into Action for National Championship in 123rd Year This Weekend
5th August 2020 Howth 17
The Howth 17s have been racing in their “little piece of Connemara that’s somehow in Leinster” for 122 years. And when some years ago they decided to make their annual championship into something special, they re-titled it the Howth 17…
The 90th edition of the annual Dun Laoghaire Harbour Swim is scheduled for the morning of Sunday 16 August. The National Yacht Club’s notice requests that all harbour users keep clear of the swimmers on the day — this includes…
Dinghy Racers Can Get Into Keelboats With Royal St George’s 1720 Clinic This Week
3rd August 2020 RStGYC
This week the Royal St George Yacht Club is running its 1720 Sportsboat clinic starting tomorrow, Tuesday 4 August. The four-day clinic will run from 9am-12pm each morning until Friday and is geared at introducing the excitement of big boat…
SB20 Carpe Diem Takes the Gun in DBSC Race (Results for Saturday, August 1 HERE!))
1st August 2020 DBSC
122 DBSC boats turned out for an afternoon's racing in moderate Westerly winds on Dublin Bay today. In the first race of the SB20 sportsboats, Carpe Diem (Colin Galavan) took the gun followed by So Blue. Ted was third. Paul…
'Don't Dilly Dally' Takes Single Point Victory in Royal Cork July League (Photo Gallery HERE!)
30th July 2020 Royal Cork YC
A win for Michael McCann in tonight's fifth and final race of the Union Chandlery July League at Royal Cork Yacht Club gives him the overall win of the IRC Spinnaker Division. McCann sailing the Etchells, Don't Dilly Dally had…
Another excellent turnout of 107 DBSC keelboats enjoyed a moderate to fresh SE'ly breeze on Dublin Bay this evening. Richard and Tim Goodbody's J109 White Mischief was the Cruisers IRC One winner tonight. The Royal Irish boat also won the…
Dublin Bay Sailing Club dinghy racing was cancelled due to fresh winds but 40 keelboats raced in a fresh westerly breeze on the Bay tonight. DBSC Results for 28/07/2020 Cruiser 1 IRC: 1. Gringo, 2. Jalapeno Cruiser 1 Echo: 1.…
Royal St. George Yacht Club Host 10th Revived Irish International 12 Championship
28th July 2020 Historic Boats
This class was designed in 1913 by George Cockshott as the British Racing Association ‘A’ Class. The class was adopted by the International Yacht Racing Union on 1st. January 1920 and thus it became the International 12 Foot Class. The…
