Team Racing Sailing News
UCD Sailing Club has launched its annual 'Movember' campaign for the third consecutive year writes the club's Lucy Reid Although we’re not able to have our club members out on the water and fundraising like we normally do, we are…
Royal St George Yacht Club Cancels Elmo Trophy Team Racing Event at Dun Laoghaire Harbour
21st August 2020 Team Racing
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…
The 2020 Eric Twiname Youth & Junior Team Racing Championships, which had been rescheduled for this October, have now been cancelled. Organisers the RYA and Eric Twiname Trust took the “difficult decision” to call off the event in agreement that…
Trinity Sailing Club will be organising a charity run next Saturday 23rd May in aid of RNLI and Jigsaw, in conjunction with the sailing clubs of Universities around Ireland writes Hannah Collins As all on-the-water activities are curtailed during lockdown, Trinity…
UCD Sailing Club has won the Irish University Sailing Association (IUSA) Team Racing Intervarsities 2020. They came out on top after three tough days racing at UL Adventure Centre, Killaloe. Following three extremely competitive finals, UCD Sailing managed to take…
Howth Yacht Club will welcome the Irish Sailing team racing roadshow funded by BIM - Bord Iascaigh Mhara - (Ireland's Seafood Development Agency) which is designed to attract sailors between the ages of 14 – 30 from around the area,…
Update Saturday 14 March: Due to the evolving situation with the COVID-19 Virus and that all schools are currently closed, this event is postponed for this term. Royal St George sailing manager Ronan Adams says: “Discussions are ongoing as to…
Only a handful of spots remain for youth sailors in spring training programmes for Optimist, Topper and RS Feva sailors organised by the National Yacht Club for the 2020 season. Spring training for Oppys runs for five Sunday afternoons beginning on…
Representatives from clubs, schools and centres have been working tirelessly throughout the winter to develop a calendar of events for Team Racing throughout Ireland. The first schools’ event is to be held on 12th February where teams from around the…
Irish Sailing National and International Judge Chris Lindsay of Carrickfergus Sailing Club on Belfast Lough has been appointed as an International Technical Official (ITO) for the Tokyo Olympics. Not only will Chris be the only Irish race official in Tokyo,…
With an increased in demand for Team Racing amongst clubs and training centres, Irish Sailing are delighted to receive their brand-new fleet of six Fireflies writes Treasa Cox. The boats were partly funded by BIM FLAG (Bord Iascaigh Mhara, Fisheries…
Mark Hassett is Sailor of the Month (Team Racing) for November 2019
2nd December 2019 Sailor of the Month
The 71st annual National Team Racing Championship hosted by Royal St George YC in the mid-November weekend attracted 16 squads from all over Ireland, and it was one of the furthest-travelled teams - Baltimore Sailing Club - which went home…
UCD Sailing Club Host 'Movember' Team Racing Event at Royal Irish Yacht Club
27th November 2019 Team Racing
This Saturday 30th of November, UCD Sailing Club are running a charity team racing event in aid of the Movember Foundation. Teams have been going head to head throughout the past month seeing who can grow the best moustache, and…
Baltimore Sailing Club Claim National Team Racing Title at Royal St. George Yacht Club
19th November 2019 Team Racing
The Royal St George Yacht Club hosted 16 teams at the 71st National Team Racing Championships last weekend in Dun Laoghaire. Near perfect team racing conditions of 8-12 knots breeze allowed a full round-robin competition of 120 races to be…
Irish Sailing’s Team Racing Programme is well underway with interest building across the country at clubs and centres each looking for bespoke training for instructors and sailors of all ages and abilities writes Gail McAllister Team Racing is a fun…
A team from Royal Cork Yacht Club made a strong showing in Cowes at the second annual Global Team Racing Regatta over the weekend. Extreme conditions beset the 12-team fleet hosted by the Royal Yacht Squadron, all racing in matched…
