Irish Sailing League Notice of Race is Published for Dun Laoghaire Inaugural Event

15th March 2023

The new Irish Sailing League is to be held in one design RS21 Keelboats at Dun Laoghaire

Organisers of the inaugural Irish Sailing League have published the Notice of Race (downloadable below as a PDF)

Online entry is now open, and the clever new league is welcoming entries to finally settle the argument on who is the best sailing club in Ireland!

After months of work behind the scenes to ensure we had all the necessary ingredients to make this event a public success, we can finally release entries and welcome teams from clubs within the Island of Ireland.

Thanks to RS Sailing, the event is to be held in one design RS21 Keelboats. These boats will ensure a level playing field for all teams as only a handful of people have sailed these boats. Furthermore, each boat is factory fresh and produced within a number of weeks of each other, maintaining the one design status of the fleet.

Clubs also need not worry about boats and logistics as the boats are provided and will be pre-rigged before teams come to the venue.

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The event format is designed to minimise costs. Each team will effectively race over one day of a weekend, removing the necessity to find and pay for accommodation in the Dun Laoghaire area. Once entries close on the 14th April, we can inform each team of their pool so they can make the necessary travel arrangements.

Teams shall enter with four crew members, of which at least one crew member must be female. There is no weight maximum or minimum; the advised weight range for the RS 21 Keelboat is 320kgs giving an average crew weight of 80kgs per person. Whatever weight a team is, they can ensure some high performance action on windy days.

The venue will be in Dun Laoghaire; in time, we can release the exact location. Also to come is information surrounding our clothing, event tracking and social partners.

At present, entries will be limited to one team per club. The person in charge of the club must approve this entry. After the first round of entries, we may be able to open entries to two teams per club.

For clubs who need help in running a ‘sail off’ to find their best team, our friends in the Irish National Sailing & Powerboat School can help with running mini events in their new fleet of J80 sailboats.

Don’t forget the league's winner this year will be crowned the Irish Sailing League Champions and will be able to represent Ireland at the Sailing Champions League in 2024.

The notice of race is available online with the link to online entries, hosted by RS events and club on the Irish Sailing Leagues website here

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NoR ISL 2023 v1.5 Final.pdf (120 Downloads)

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Kenneth Rumball

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Kenny Rumball is the Principal of the Irish National Sailing School in Dun Laoghaire Harbour. He is a multi dinghy champion and offshore sailor. In 2018 he was awarded the Royal Ocean Racing Club's Seamanship Trophy for a Man Overboard Rescue in the Round Ireland Race. In May 2020 he embarked on a mixed offshore doublehanded keelboat campaign with Pamela Lee.

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About the Irish Sailing League

The inaugural Irish Sailing League 2023, under the control of Kenneth Rumball, will be sailed over three weekends, in late June and early July, in Dun Laoghaire, and the plan is to race in Scotsman’s Bay vicinity.

In the first instance, each club is limited to one entry, but this may be increased based on the number of clubs wishing to participate. Worth noting, too, that in future years the plan would be to extend the event to include regional rounds in North, South, East and West.

Each Club must nominate a crew. The maximum crew number is 4, all members of the same club, and one crew must be female. The crew number and lineup cannot be changed later than seven days before the first race without a points penalty.