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Northern Ireland Dinghy Sailor Success at Howth's Youth Sailing Nationals
18th April 2023 Youth Sailing
Whether it be football or sailing, the people of Larne in County Antrim have plenty to celebrate, for the football club won the Irish League Cup on 15th April and East Antrim Boat Club’s ILCA 6 sailor, Tom Coulter began…
The continuing vitality of Irish yacht clubs competing at the Youth Sailing National Championships at Howth Yacht Club is reflected in the fact that some club acronyms overlap, consequently in previous reports of the Topper racing, we had Cormac Byrne…
Rocco Wright won a home waters victory at the Investwise Youth Sailing National Championships in Howth on Sunday. Wright took the ILCA 6 Youth National Champion title by a clear margin of ten nett points after ten races sailed across…
O’Shaughnessy and Spain Take 29er Irish Youth Sailing National Championships at Howth Yacht Club
16th April 2023 29er
A Cork-Dublin partnership won the 29er Investwise Irish Youth Sailing National Championships at Howth Yacht Club on Sunday. The double-handed skiff title was won by reigning Irish 29er class national champions Ben O’Shaughnessy (Royal Cork YC) and Ethan Spain of the (National…
Dublin-Wexford Duo Win 420 Irish Youth Sailing National Championships at Howth Yacht Club
16th April 2023 420
A Dublin-Wexford partnership won the 420 dinghy Investwise Irish Youth Sailing National Championships at Howth Yacht Club on Sunday. The double-handed duo of Jack McDowell (Malahide YC) and Henry Thompson (Wexford Harbour Boat and Tennis Club) won by four points from Cora McNaughton (Blessington SC)…
Youth Sailing Nationals at Howth: Day 3 Sees Sunny Calm Give Way To Brisk But Greying Sou'easter
15th April 2023 Youth Sailing
With several local weather systems working themselves into lathers of various combinations, it seems that Howth in April for the four-day Investwise Youth Sailing Nationals can either provide sunshine but little wind, or a rising sou'easter but with eventually thickening grey…
Mixed Winds And Mixed Fortunes At Youth Sailing Nationals Day 2 At Howth Yacht Club
14th April 2023 Youth Sailing
Some placings waxed and waned, occasionally quite spectacularly, in Day 2's racing in the Investwise Youth Sailing Nationals at Howth, as wind and weather struggled to stabilise themselves after the theatrically unsettled conditions experienced earlier in the week. Nevertheless, in…
Youth Sailing Nationals At Howth Get Two Races Between Morning Gale And Sunset Calm
13th April 2023 Youth Sailing
The first day of racing in the big-fleet Investwise Youth Sailing Nationals at Howth Yacht Club saw the Race Team get in two good races in the sweet spot between the morning's near gale that was the last of Storm…
Youth Sailing Nationals Move In On Howth With 168 Boats As Storm Antoni Moves Out
13th April 2023 Howth YC
Storm Antoni has been making quite a lot of noise and bother all over Ireland in recent days, but now he has moved east just in time for the Investwise Youth Sailing Nationals 2023 to move in on Howth from…
Emily McAfee Looks Invincible in the Topper 5.3 Fleet of Ballyholme Yacht Club's Junior Icebreaker
13th April 2023 Northern Ireland Waters
With two more day’s racing to go in the Junior Icebreaker Ballyholme Yacht Club in Belfast Lough, Emily McAfee looks invincible in the Topper 5.3 fleet, which inclement weather has considerably reduced from the original 22. In the Feva division,…
Australia Pips Ireland's 'Emerald Challenge' for Youth & Women’s America’s Cup Invitation
11th April 2023 America's Cup
Ireland's first-ever challenge for the Youth and Women’s America’s Cup sailing championship has ended without an invitation to Barcelona this Autumn. Ireland's bid was pipped at the post by an Australian syndicate, where two clubs in Sydney combined their efforts…
Baltimore Sailing Club ILCA Sailors Top 108 Boat Fleet on Home Waters of West Cork
9th April 2023 Laser
After four races, host club sailors lead two divisions competing for 2023 Munster ILCA/Laser Championship honours in Balimore, West Cork. Fionn Lydon tops the ILCA 7 division with youth sailor Sorcha Ní Súilleabháin in charge of the ILCA 4s. The threat of…
Skipper Loghlen Rickard with crew Oisin Cullen and Kate O’Connor on UCD 2 were the victors in the National Yacht Club’s inaugural Student Match Racing Invitational, which took place in Dun Laoghaire last weekend 1-2 April. The event brought six…
Sail Training Ireland Among 2023 Lord Mayor’s Awards Recipients Honoured for Their Contribution to Dublin Society
7th April 2023 Tall Ships
Sail Training Ireland was among three organisations and three individuals recognised by the Lord Mayor of Dublin for their contributions to the city in a special reception last Thursday (30 March). The sail-training charity funds the development of young people…
National Yacht Club’s First Student Match Racing Invitational Is This Weekend
1st April 2023 National YC
As previously reported on Afloat.ie, the National Yacht Club’s inaugural Student Match Racing Invitational is taking place in Dun Laoghaire this weekend 1-2 April. The event brings together the top varsity sailors in the country in what promises to be…
Royal Irish Yacht Club Kick Starts a Bumper RS Feva Dinghy Season at Dun Laoghaire Harbour
1st April 2023 Royal Irish Yacht Club
With Summer 2023 lining up to be one of the biggest ever for the RS Feva double-handed youth dinghy class, the Dun Laoghaire Harbour yacht clubs have come together to offer coaching in the run-up - which is open to…