Team Racing Sailing News

Schull Team 1 Win Record Breaking Munster Schools Team Racing Championships
24th March 2023 Team Racing
Schull Community College Team 1 were the victor at the Munster Schools Team Racing event hosted by the Fastnet Marina Outdoor Education Centre (FMOEC) at Schull in West Cork on Saturday, the 18th of March. The team Captain was Rory…

Viking Marine Leinster Schools Team Racing Championships at National Yacht Club was an Outstanding Success
16th March 2023 Team Racing
The latest update regarding Schools team racing is that the Leinster Schools Team Racing Championships, which took place on Sunday the 12th of March in the National Yacht Club was an outstanding success considering some challenging wind shifts and speed, writes Eunice…

Munster Schools Team Racing Championships to be Held this Weekend in Schull
16th March 2023 Team Racing
18 teams compete this weekend at the Munster Schools Team Racing Championships in Schull Harbour in West Cork. Racing from the Fastnet Marina Outdoor Education Centre the top six teams will qualify for the National Championships. The event follows on…

St. Andrew's College Win Record Breaking Viking Marine Leinster Team Racing Event at Dun Laoghaire
14th March 2023 Team Racing
18 teams set an all-time record at the Viking Marine Leinster Schools Team Racing Championships 2023 at the National Yacht Club in Dun Laoghaire Harbour. Dublin's St Andrew's College took first and second places, with Holy Child Killiney 1 taking third…

Highest Ever Numbers for Leinster Schools Team Racing at Dun Laoghaire Harbour
9th March 2023 Team Racing
This weekend in Dun Laoghaire Harbour will provide two days of colourful team racing as the Leinster Colleges and Schools League kicks off its series from the Royal St. George Yacht Club. Seven colleges and seven school teams will take…

UCD Sailing Club made team racing history at the weekend when it won the Oxford Invitational Top Gun Trophy, the first Irish team to do so. The top eight university teams from across the UK and Ireland competed at Farmoor…

Jack Fahy & UCD Are “Sailors of the Month (Team Racing)” for February
1st March 2023 Sailor of the Month
Jack Fahy of Dun Laoghaire and the University College Dublin Sailing Club Team Racing Squad hit the target spot on at the weekend, when they emerged as winners of the elite eight-team Top Gun Invitational Series, organised on the premier…

New Leinster Colleges and Schools Team Racing Event Format at Royal St George
21st February 2023 Team Racing
The Royal St George Yacht Club in conjunction with Leinster Colleges and Schools are commencing a new team racing league to be held over three Saturdays in March and April. The ethos behind the league is to provide youth sailors…

A University team racing crew was involved in a one-vehicle collision in County Galway on Saturday morning. One man went to University Hospital Galway for treatment, according to Gardai. Afloat sources say the crew were travelling to an IUSA championship in…

The Irish Schools Team Racing Association (ISTRA) has been hard at work since its AGM in May 2022, welcoming the province of Ulster into the fold. Its committee now comprises nine members representing all four Irish provinces, with the latest…

Gonzaga College and Irish National Sailing & Powerboat School to Host Shanahan Cup
4th February 2023 INSS
After a three-year pandemic-induced absence, the Shanahan Cup Secondary Schools' Team Racing event is set to take place next Wednesday, the 8th of February. Jointly hosted by Gonzaga College and the Irish National Sailing & Powerboat School racing is organised…

Irish Team Racing National Championships at Baltimore Cancelled Due to Strong Wind Forecast
17th November 2022 Team Racing
The Irish Team Racing Association (ITRA) National Championships 2022 has been 'disappointingly' cancelled due to very strong southerly then westerly winds this weekend. The forecasted sea state for Baltimore Harbour in West Cork of up to 2m and 40-knot squalls…

IUSA Beat BUSA at Inaugural Ride’r Cup Team Racing Competition at the Royal Irish, Dun Laoghaire
18th October 2022 Team Racing
The inaugural IUSA (Irish University Sailing Association) versus BUSA (British University Sailing Association) team racing regatta took place in the Royal Irish Yacht Club at Dun Laoghaire Harbour on the 15th & 16th of October and was organised by UCD…

Young Sailors Flock to Oxford for Eric Twiname Team Racing Championships
13th October 2022 Team Racing
More than 250 youngsters took to the water for an action-packed weekend of fun at the Eric Twiname Youth and Junior Team Racing Championships. The much-loved regatta – which pits junior and youth teams from across the country against one…

A steady 8-10 knots all day provided perfect conditions, bringing out the best of competitors in some very tight formations and close racing for the 51st Sea Scout Sailing Regatta on Malahide Estuary. The main event of the day was…

Established in 1944, the Sutton Book Trophy (‘the book’) is arguably the oldest team racing event in Ireland which has seen Royal Cork dinghy sailors do battle with Sutton Dinghy Club sailors on Dublin Bay in order to establish which…