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Open Selection Evening for 2013 HYC U25 Keelboat Team
#HYC - The K25 team at Howth Yacht Club is planning for 2013, including the considerable challenge of competing in the BMW J/24 World Championships next August. If you are interested in applying for the youth keelboat team, please attend…
UCD Crowned Student Yachting World Champions in France
#sywoc – Ireland's UCD sailing team have beaten Canada by 12 points to win the Student Yachting World Cup in France after the series was shortened due to gales in La Rochelle. The Irish team took the lead on Tuesday…
Video Evidence Reinstates UCD as Irish Lead at Student Yachting Cup
#sywoc – UCD sailing team extended their overall lead at the Student world Yachting Cup in La Rochelle France yesterday after producing video evidence to prove they should not have been disqualified from Tuesday's racing for a premature start rule…
UCD Lead Student World Yachting Cup
UCD Ireland Sailing Team currently sit atop the leader board in La Rochelle. Following last nights "Night Race" and this mornings Windward /Leeward the team now lie 6 points clear of the second placed Canadian team. The five and a…
UCD Sailing Team Chase Lead at Student Yachting World Cup
#ucd – UCD sailing team lie second in La Rochelle, France this morning buoyed up by a string of consistent results that sees them chasing overall leaders Canada by four points after xx race sailed so far in the  Student…
Sponsorship Boost for UCD at Student Yachting World Cup
#youthsailing – Although funding issues have already forced the withdrawal of two international teams for the 2012 Student Yachting World Cup, Team Ireland from UCD is celebrating a title sponsor in the nick of time for next week's event in…
Nine Wins Gives Lyden Junior All Ireland Sailing Title
#youthsailing – Nine wins from nine races gave Fionn Lyden the Junior All Ireland Sailing Championship this afternoon in Schull, West Cork. Scroll down to download full results as a pdf. Lyden, a member of Schull's Youth Team that lifted…
Lyden Takes Early Lead at Junior All Ireland Sailing Champs
#youthsailing – Fionn Lyden and Anna O'Regan from Schull Community College Sailing Club lead the All Ireland Junior Championships in Schull this evening. Download full results as pdf below. The Current European U17 Laser Radial champion Finn Lynch from the…
ISAF Youth Silver Medalist in Action at West Cork Junior All Ireland Event
#youthsailing – Ireland's silver medal winner from the ISAF youth worlds will be back on the water again at the Junior All Ireland Sailing Championship this weekend. Racing takes place at the Fastnet Marine OEC in Schull, Co. Cork in…
Galway's Top Junior Windsurfers Battle it Out for Academy Honours
#windsurfing – Galway's top junior windsurfers battled it out over 10 races and a freestyle session for the 2012 Rusheen Bay Windsurfing Junior Academy Awards titles on Saturday. The winners were Diarmuid Mc Cormack and Fiona Reidy. The academy began…
UCD Set Sail for Student World Yachting Cup
#studentyachting – UCD will represent Ireland at the 2012 Student Yachting World Cup in La Rochelle, France from the 27th of October to the 3rd of November. Scroll down for the names of the ten member team. The UCD students…
Black Flag No Deterrent as Lynch Eyes Top Ten Finish at Youth Worlds
#isafyw12 – Rather than simply pressing for ultimate consistency, as they entered the second half of the 2012 Four Star Pizza ISAF Youth Sailing World Championships, sailors representing Ireland sought to push harder and take a few more risks, looking…
Bray SC Getting Young Sailors Afloat With Pico Club
#YOUTH SAILING - Bray Sailing Club has launched a new initiative to get young people out on the water this summer. As the Sunday Independent reports, the Pico Club is named for the easy-to-sail Laser Pico dinghy that's just the…
Sir Bob Geldof to Present Sailing Awards in Dun Laoghaire
#dmyc – Sir Bob Geldof will present an award made in memory of his late father to an outstanding junior sailor in Dun Laoghaire next month. The 'Bob Geldof Spirit of Sailing Award' for outstanding junior sailors will be presented…
Welsh Youngsters Learn at Ysgol y Môr (School of the Sea)
youthsailing – Schools from Ynys Môn (Isle of Anglesey) and Gwynedd have won praise from Welsh Government member Ieuan Wyn Jones for spearheading a revolutionary approach to education, which makes the marine environment a key part of learning. At the…
New 'Green Dragon' Sailing Academy Targets Youth Sailors
In what is being termed 'a major initiative' for young Irish sailors the Green Dragon Academy has been launched to use a second generation Volvo Open 70 and Ireland's entry in the 2009 Volvo Ocean Race as a platform to…