Dun Laoghaire to Dingle (D2D) Yacht Race News from the National YC

Job Done – Sam Hunt and Cian McCarthy relaxing in Dingle after winning the Two-Handed Division and placing second overall in the Dun Laoghaire-Dingle Race

Cian McCarthy And Sam Hunt Of Kinsale Are “Sailors of the Month (Offshore)” for June

1st July 2023 Sailor of the Month

The attractive Sunfast 3300 Cinnamon Girl made an impressive post-pandemic impact with last year’s Inishtearaght Race from Kinsale. But for 2023, her hand-in-glove team of Cian McCarthy and Sam Hunt made an international impression with fantastic coordination and impressively high-speed…

Winners all right…Ron O’Hanley and his Privateer crew (including Ben Fusco of Kinsale) in Dingle after their Volvo D2D overall victory

Ron O’Hanley of New York (and Roscommon) is “Sailor of the Month” for June

1st July 2023 Sailor of the Month

With a racing machine as complex as the canting-keel Cookson 50, crew and boat management demands are raised to a fresh level. But when Ron O’Hanley of the New York Yacht Club arrived with the already hyper-successful Privateer for the…

Yachts depart Dublin Bay in the 2023 Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race. The National Yacht Club date has set June 11th, 2025, as the next race date.

2025 Dun Laoghaire Dingle Race Date is Set as June 11th by National Yacht Club

24th June 2023 Dun Laoghaire Dingle

Twenty-four months before the next race, the biennial offshore Dun Laoghaire Dingle (D2D) Race organisers have struck the date for its 17th race as Wednesday, June 11th, 2025. The confirmation comes as the National Yacht Club in Dun Laoghaire celebrates…

Kinsale Yacht Club salute: (from left) Brian Carroll, KYC Cruiser Captain, Tom Roche, Meridian; Finbarr O Regan, ArtfulDodjer; Cian McCarthy and Sam Hunt, Cinnamon Girl and Matthias Hellstern, Commodore Kinsale Yacht Club

Kinsale Yacht Club Salutes its Dun Laoghaire Dingle Racers

15th June 2023 Dun Laoghaire Dingle

On the eve of its 100-boat Sovereign's Cup Regatta, Kinsale Yacht Club saluted their Volvo Dun Laoghaire Dingle Racers, particularly the two-handed campaign of Cian McCarthy and Sam Hunt, who finished second overall. As Afloat readers know, the stunning performance of…

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Dun Laoghaire Dingle Race Start Drone Video Released

14th June 2023 Dun Laoghaire Dingle

Relive the opening moments of last week's epic 43-boat Volvo Dun Laoghaire Dingle Race from the air in this just-released drone footage. Robbie Reynolds's drone footage shows the start of the race on Dublin Bay and the fleet heading south on…

Shaun Douglas’s Beneteau 40.7 Game Changer from Royal Ulster Yacht Club suffered a litany of mishaps east of Cork

Mixed Fortunes for Northern Ireland Boats in the Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race

12th June 2023 Dun Laoghaire Dingle

Fortunes were mixed for the two boats from the North of Ireland taking part in the Volvo Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race. Michael Eames Sunfast 3200 from Royal Ulster YC and Strangford Lough YC finished sixth overall and top of…

Ron O'Hanley of New York Yacht Club and his crew from the yacht Privateer receive the 2023 Volvo Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race overall trophy from sponsor Billy Naughton of Bill Naughton Motors, Tralee. Scroll down for photo gallery of images

Winning Privateer Crew Saluted at Volvo Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race Prizegiving 2023 (Photo Gallery Here!)

11th June 2023 Dun Laoghaire Dingle

The Volvo Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race prizegiving 2023 saluted American offshore sailor Ron O'Hanley whose overall win and record-breaking run aboard his canting keel Cookson 50 Privateer in the 16th staging of the 270-mile race from Dublin Bay to…

The Sunfast 3300 Cinnamon Girl (Cian McCarthy, Kinsale YC) under her 2023 cutter rig with lengthened bowsprit shortly after the start of the Volvo Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race on Wednesday, June 7th

Volvo Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race 2023 – An Entire Saga Of Sailing In Just Twenty-Six Hours

9th June 2023 Dun Laoghaire Dingle

It was that noted offshore yachtsman and rail travel enthusiast Vladimir Ilyich Lenin who observed that ten years can go past with no significant history occurring at all, and then suddenly ten years of hectic history can happen in just…

RNLB Ger Tigchlearr escorts the Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Racing yacht into Arklow

Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Racer Loses Rudder But Rigs Emergency Steering & Makes Arklow Under Own Power, Lifeboat Stands By

9th June 2023 Dun Laoghaire Dingle

Following a pager alert at 5.37 pm on Wednesday, 7 June, the volunteer lifeboat crew made their way to the station and, within minutes of the request, were aboard RNLB Ger Tigchlearr and en route to the reported location some…

Ron O’Hanley, skipper of the Cookson 50 Privateer of the New York Yacht Club and overall winner of the 2023 Volvo Dun Laoghaire Dingle Race

Volvo Dun Laoghaire-Dingle Race: Privateer’s Crew Necks Are Safe For Another Day

8th June 2023 Dun Laoghaire Dingle

D2D Thursday, 7 pm - In the golden olden days, when the legendary Fingal privateer skippers like Luke Ryan of Rogerstown or James Mathews of Rush went forth on their remarkably fine ships in officially licensed pursuit of enemy bullion and…

The little Sunfast 3300 Cinnamon Girl from Kinsale, two-handed with Cian McCarthy and Sam Hunt

Volvo D2D: Winds And Speeds Soften At Skellig Michael

8th June 2023 Dun Laoghaire Dingle

D2D Thursday, 4 pm - The majestic monastic rock of Skellig Michael may be the austere epitome of a rugged and solitary Atlantic outpost, but this final turning point of the 270-mile Volvo Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race 2023 has…

Extra Spice - Cian McCarthy and Sam Hunt' have had a spirited performance in the two handed Sunfast 3300 Cinnamon Girl (Kinsale YC) in the Volvo Dun Laoghaire Dingle Race

Volvo D2D: Fringe Benefits Of Storm Oscar and Cinnamon Girl’s Spicy Performance Might Yet Affect Dingle Results

8th June 2023 Dun Laoghaire Dingle

D2D Thursday, 12.30 pm - It’s not often that the steep but serene Atlantic island of Madeira is assaulted by a tropical storm. But a nasty one called Oscar has been doing that in recent days, and while evil Oscar’s…

American skipper Ron O'Hanley (pictured in grey gear) and his New York Yacht Club crew celebrate setting a new course record at Dingle Marina in County Kerry this morning, having broken the line honours record in the 30th-anniversary edition of the offshore race

New York's 'Privateer' Crew Celebrate Record Breaking Run in Volvo Dun Laoghaire Dingle Race

8th June 2023 Dun Laoghaire Dingle

American skipper Ron O'Hanley and his New York Yacht Club crew stepped ashore to celebrations at Dingle Marina in County Kerry this morning, having broken the line honours record in the 30th-anniversary edition of the 270-mile Volvo Dun Laoghaire Dingle…

Ron O’Hanley’s New York Yacht Club Cookson 50 Privateer crosses the 2023 Dun Laoghaire-Dingle Race finish line on the County Kerry coast at 09.19 am this morning, smashing multiple records in her race debut

America’s Privateer Clinches Course Record And Multiple Wins In 30th Anniversary Volvo Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race

8th June 2023 Dun Laoghaire Dingle

D2D, Thursday 0930 am - At 09.19 hrs this morning, a deceptively straightforward-looking 50ft sloop (she’s straightforward above water) came smoothly across the finish line at Dingle to finish first in every way in the National Yacht Club’s 16th staging and…

There is a very strong possibility of records with the pace set by Ron O’Hanley’s super-charged Cookson 50 Privateer from New York in the 2023 Dun Laoghaire-Dingle Race

Hot Pace On A Cold Night For Dun Laoghaire-Dingle Racers

7th June 2023 Dun Laoghaire Dingle

D2D Thursday at 12.30 am - It’s a cold night off the south coast, with a keen edge to the east nor’east breeze which is sweeping the fleet towards a very strong possibility of records in the biennial 270-mile Volvo Dun…

Ron O’Hanley’s Cookson 50 Turbo Privateer in this afternoon's opening moments of the 2023 Volvo 270-mile Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race

Volvo D2D Speedster – Privateer Sees Off Dublin Bay-Tuskar in Less Than Five Hours

7th June 2023 Dun Laoghaire Dingle

D2D Wed, 730 pm - Ron O’Hanley’s highy-tuned Cookson 50 Turbo Privateer from America flies on, and was past the Tuskar Rock by 18:40 hours with the last of the sluicing ebb helping her to 17 knots. Although boats with special…

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Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Yacht Race Information

The biennial Dun Laoghaire to Dingle race is a 320-miles race down to the east coast of Ireland, across the south coast and into Dingle harbour in County Kerry.

The race is organised by the National Yacht Club.

It never fails to offer a full range of weather, wind and tide to the intrepid entrants, ranging from a 32ft cruiser to a 79ft all-out racer.

Three divisions are available to enter: cruiser (boats equipped with furlers), racing (the bulk of the fleet) and also two-handed.

D2D Course change overruled

In 2019, the organisers considered changing the course to allow boats to select routes close to shore by removing the requirement to go outside Islands and Lighthouses en route, but following input from regular participants, the National Yacht Club decided to stick with the tried and tested course route in order to be fair to large and smaller boats and to keep race records intact.

D2D Course record time

Mick Cotter’s 78ft Whisper established the 1 day and 48 minutes course record for the Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race in 2009 and that time stood until 2019 when Cotter returned to beat his own record but only just, the Dun Laoghaire helmsman crossing the line in Kerry to shave just 20 seconds off his 2009 time.