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After the qualification stage, Craig Burlton said that the forecast light airs would open up the racing even further. How right he was. We spoke to yesterday’s two race winners in the gold fleet, Jerry Hill and Ian from the…

Dublin bay is a mill pond this morning with a light southerly wind of two knots exactly as forecast. Visibility is much improved on this time yesterday. Winds are expected to go into the west and increase to eight knots…

Dublin Bay threw a bone to the locals today as the SB3 World Championships entered its final phase.Crews were held onshore for the morning, with little wind available to shift the fog that had settled on the water since dawn.…

Raymarine will be showcasing a range of new products at the PSP Southampton Boat Show (stand G088).

'Humbling’ was how some crews described the intensity after day three of the SB3 Worlds Championships, which enter their endgame tomorrow (THURSDAY) with qualification stages out of the way.

While it's all union jacks flying at the top of the SB3 fleet, only 13 points separate first and tenth after six races. On the water, it seems, no-one is giving an inch.

Leander beat the Old Collegians and London composite crew in the semi-final of the Prince of Wales Cup at Henley Royal Regatta today. In an exciting and close race Leander led for much of the contest but could not get…

Just a few weeks ago, Gareth Flannigan was top Irish boat at the 80-boat Irish national championships, but he's finding things trickier at the SB3 Worlds. We talk to Flan in an exclusive podcast.

It's another bright and light morning in Dun Laoghaire for the crews competing at the SB3 Worlds. Yesterday was a long one on the water, and here, a top contender give us his views on day one.

If day one is anything to go by, it’ll be five days of nip-and-tuck racing in Dun Laoghaire for the SB3 World Championships, running until Friday out of the National Yacht Club. The 136-boat fleet was split in two today…

The final stages of the SB3 Worlds will be broadcast live, with online pictures streamed in real time over the internet. Live-regatta.com will fit the top 20 boats with trackers and cameras.

In Alicante, Spain the Green Dragon team unveiled their new livery and sponsors but more importantly for race fans the Chinese-Irish entry the team also went live with a new website.

Ger O'Rourke has called on the expertise of North Sails’ designer Gautier Sergent to complete Delta Lloyd's sail wordrobe. North Sails designed and built sails for both ABN Amro boats in the last race but even so making the sail…

With a run of 49.84 knots, American kitesurfer Rob Douglas beat the outright World Speed Sailing Record over 500 metres at the weekend at the speed strip at Luderitz in Namibia. The result puts paid to the outright world speed…

When Mike Sanderson last sailed ABN Amro 1 he demolished the opposition. Now the winner of the last VOR has given his thumbs up to Ger O'Rourke's participation in next month's race in his old boat. Here he tells the…

The largest keelboat fleet ever assembled in Ireland was afloat for the first time this afternoon for the practice race of the SB3 World Championships. The event runs until Friday (September 26th) on Dublin Bay.

The Royal Ocean Racing Club have announced Sevenstar as the title sponsor of the non-stop race around Britain and Ireland to be called the ‘Sevenstar Round Britain & Ireland Race'. The race will start on Monday 23rd August 2010.

In Dun Laoghaire, 136 SB3s have assembled at the National Yacht Club this morning for Monday’s first race of the SB3 world championships. 

Friday the 15th of August 2008 saw the one of the most unusual events to place in Dublin bay this year, the “Nora Barnacle Challenge” in aid of the Blackrock Hospice.

Ger O'Rourke and his eight crew guided their newly-sponsored VO70 into Alicante yesterday, after a six-day delivery from Cork. O'Rourke was barely off the boat before daring others to underestimate him. "We wouldn’t be here if we didn’t think we…