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![Oisin Pierse Oisin Pierse of the Royal Cork Yacht Club, winning Race 9 of the IODAI 2022 Optimist Trials](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I00004OA7EpVN9xo/s/767/I00004OA7EpVN9xo.jpg)
Royal Cork's Oisin Pierse Leads Optimist Trials into Final Day at Ballyholme
24th April 2022 Optimist
Oisin Pierse of the Royal Cork Yacht Club leads the IODAI Optimist Trials at Ballyholme Yacht Club with the final races to be sailed on Sunday. The 49-boat Optimist fleet is the largest sailing at this weekend's Youth Sailing Championships…
![Eve McMahon Eve McMahon won three out of four races in big breeze on Belfast Lough](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000nR.dRbYyJD4/s/767/I0000nR.dRbYyJD4.jpg)
Howth's Eve McMahon Takes ILCA 6/Radial Lead at Youth Sailing Championships on Belfast Lough
24th April 2022 Youth Sailing
Ballyholme is famous for the big rolling seas with a northeast breeze of strength and on Super Saturday at the Youth Sailing Championships, the ILCA6 Under 17 world champion Eve McMahon showed her strength with a dominant display in strong winds and…
![capsized RIB rescue boat A capsized RIB rescue boat is recovered from the slipway at Ballyholme Yacht Club during the Youth Sailing Championships on Belfast Lough](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I00004BhSG0Nsqn0/s/767/I00004BhSG0Nsqn0.jpg)
Bangor RNLI and HM Coastguard Thanked Following Incidents at Youth Sailing Championship on Belfast Lough
24th April 2022 Youth Sailing
The Irish Sailing Association and Ballyholme Yacht Club have thanked the RNLI and HM Coastguard for their assistance at the Youth Sailing Championships on Belfast Lough on Saturday. In a statement, the organisers said a 'small number' of competitors had…
![Howth's Rocco Wright Howth's Rocco Wright](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I00007h0oI4uvN2U/s/767/I00007h0oI4uvN2U.jpg)
Howth's Rocco Wright Moves into the ILCA 6 Lead at Youth Sailing National Championships at Ballyholme Yacht Club
22nd April 2022 Youth Sailing
Challenging conditions on Belfast Lough were to the liking of Howth's Rocco Wright on the second day of racing at the Irish Youth Sailing National Championships at Ballyholme Yacht Club in Northern Ireland. The Howth teen has moved into the…
![Jonathan O'Shaughnessy Jonathan O'Shaughnessy (Royal Cork YC) has a six-point lead in the ILCA 6 class at Ballyholme](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000TgtPTQwNCiY/s/767/I0000TgtPTQwNCiY.jpg)
First Optimist Race Abandoned at Youth National Championships When Fleet Sails to Wrong Mark at Ballyholme
21st April 2022 Youth Sailing
On the first day of racing at the 2022 Irish Youth Sailing National Championships at Ballyholme Yacht Club on Belfast Lough on Thursday, the event got off to a staggered start with four of the six classes racing. A 50-strong Optimist…
![Ballyholme Yacht Club Ballyholme Yacht Club](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000Ai90yNVxsWs/s/500/I0000Ai90yNVxsWs.jpg)
Over 200 Young Sailors Taking Part in Ireland’s Biggest Youth Regatta This Week
20th April 2022 Youth Sailing
Ireland’s biggest youth sailing regatta will see numbers back up to pre-COVID highs with over 200 young sailors taking part in the 2022 Irish Sailing Youth National Championships this week. This year the event is hosted by Ballyholme Yacht Club…
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The RYA Youth Sailing National Championships returned to Pwllheli, North Wales, over the Easter break as the 2022 champions were crowned across seven youth fleets. Last hosting the premier youth sailing regatta in 2016, Plas Heli welcomed 280 youngsters from…
![NI prizewinners at the RYA Youth Nationals RYA NI Performance Manager Andrew Baker with NI prizewinners at the RYA Youth Nationals](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000Gl6TKEyyM6Q/s/767/I0000Gl6TKEyyM6Q.jpg)
Northern girls shone at the RYA Youth Nationals last week with Ellen Barbour of County Antrim Yacht Club at Whitehead and East Antrim BC at Larne making her mark in the Women’s ILCA/Laser 6 fleet with a convincing third overall.…
![Ballyholme YC The Ballyholme YC Tree Planting crew in the Belfast Hills](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000FiPtNZJJgA0/s/767/I0000FiPtNZJJgA0.jpg)
Ballyholme Yacht Club Plants Trees to Offset RIB Emissions from Irish Youth Sailing Championships
16th April 2022 Belfast Lough
Planting trees is very different to sailing at Ballyholme, but this month a team from the Belfast Lough club travelled to Glas Na Braden wood in the Belfast Hills behind Newtownabbey on the north shore of the Lough to take…
![Erin McIlwaine (left) and Lauren McDowell Erin McIlwaine (left) and Lauren McDowell in their 29erdinghy at the RYA Youth Nationals in Pwllheli](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000uzRtCY2mKQk/s/635/I0000uzRtCY2mKQk.jpg)
Good Showing by Northern Ireland Sailors at the RYA Nationals at Pwllheli
13th April 2022 Youth Sailing
The 190-strong fleet at the RYA Youth Nationals hosted by Pwllheli Sailing Club in North Wales this week should be a good run-up to the Irish Youth Sailing Nationals next week at Ballyholme Yacht Club on Belfast Lough where around…
![Heritage Tall Ship Leader The 1892-built Heritage Tall Ship Leader will arrive in Northern Ireland this month](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I00008v3aDu4gL5k/s/767/I00008v3aDu4gL5k.jpg)
Vintage Brixham Trawler 'Leader' Acquired by Northern Ireland's Silvery Light Maritime Heritage Charity
17th March 2022 Tall Ships
Silvery Light Sailing is Northern Ireland’s only Maritime Heritage Community Boatworks and Sail Training Charity and it has just been awarded a National Lottery Heritage Fund grant of £244,975 for the acquisition of the 1892-built Heritage Tall Ship Leader and…
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National Yacht Club Commodore Conor O'Regan led the junior summer sailing achievement celebrations at Dun Laoghaire Harbour on Friday night. The junior and youth sailors produced results at home and abroad in a variety of classes including Optimist, Laser and 29er…
![Jonathan O'Shaughnessy Royal Cork's Jonathan O'Shaughnessy took silver at the seasonal opener of the XVII Andalusian Olympic Week in southern Spain](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000pTCoVq7egGw/s/767/I0000pTCoVq7egGw.jpg)
Silver for Cork, Bronze for Howth in Spanish Olympic Week Won by Young Ukrainian
2nd March 2022 Youth Sailing
The rising young stars in Ireland's ILCA 6 aka Laser class have had a very successful outing to the seasonal opener of the XVII Andalusian Olympic Week in southern Spain. In a hugely popular win for the times that are…
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Irish Sailor of the Year 2021 Eve McMahon To Contest Youth Sailing Championships at Ballyholme
23rd February 2022 Northern Ireland Waters
Ballyholme Yacht Club in Bangor on Belfast Lough is the host club for this year’s Irish National Youth Sailing Championships from 21st until 24th April. The cream of youth and junior sailors from across Ireland will compete in the Laser/ILCA…
![Kinsale Yacht Club Kinsale Yacht Club U25 sailors celebrate the launch of the new club J/24](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000Lbh71GMD0iU/s/767/I0000Lbh71GMD0iU.jpg)
Kinsale Yacht Club has launched its Under 25 Team’s J24 and named it ‘Kinsailor.’ The boat is the last J24 to have been built by Jeremy Rogers, who also built Contessas, on the Isle of Wight. “At 31 years old…
![Allianz 2022 Youth Sailing World Championships Competitors at the Championships represent their respective countries as they do at the Olympic Games, as the only entrants in their class](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000XjhBOXsg6F0/s/767/I0000XjhBOXsg6F0.jpg)
450 Sailors from 69 Countries Ready for Action at the Allianz 2022 Youth Sailing World Championships
22nd February 2022 Youth Sailing
Over 450 of the world’s very best youth sailors from 69 countries have confirmed their participation in the Allianz Youth World Sailing Championships 2022. Taking place off the coast of Scheveningen in The Hague, The Netherlands, from 8-15 July 2022,…