Sovereign's Cup Sailing. News and Results from the Kinsale YC Event
Johnny Murphy and the beautifully-prepared J/109 Outrajeous exited the 2024 championship stage with just about all the titles for which he was eligible. In June 2025, he resumed this approach, winning the Volvo Dun Laoghaire-Dingle Race (one of the best…
Nigel Biggs & Dave Cullen of Howth & RIYC are "Sailors of the Month" (Regatta) for June
2nd July 2025 Sailor of the Month
Dave Cullen and Nigel Biggs campaign their hefty First 50 Checkmate XX with a style that suggests she fulfils the role in Dublin and elsewhere that Denis Doyle's Moonduster did from Cork. Like Moonduster, Checkmate's crew demands are such that…
Checkmate XX is Sovereign's Cup 2025 Winner as ICRA National Titles Decided in Kinsale
28th June 2025 Sovereign's Cup
There was a medal haul for Howth Yacht Club at the Kildare Innovation Campus Sovereign's Cup on Saturday afternoon (June 28th) off Kinsale, where a dominant display by Dublin cruiser racer crews saw three major ICRA IRC National Championship national titles plus…
Three Howth Yachts Lead Key IRC Divisions into Final Day of 2025 Sovereign's Cup
27th June 2025 Sovereign's Cup
Saturday's final races will bring the curtain down on the 2025 Kildare Innovation Campus Sovereign's Cup, but in some divisions, it is already quite clear, barring disaster, where the ICRA IRC National Championship titles are heading, with Howth Yacht Club…
Checkmate XX and Outrajeous Take Charge on Day Two of Sovereign's Cup off Kinsale
26th June 2025 Sovereign's Cup
The two Sovereign's Cup fleets got away on the first attempt in the first race of two on the second day of the Cup on Thursday, June 26th, on a running start off the Kinsale coast from a 600m long line between…
Fifty Footers Dominate Coastal Race as Light Winds Launch 2025 Sovereign's Cup off Kinsale
25th June 2025 Sovereign's Cup
Light winds got the first races of the 2025 Kildare Innovation Campus Sovereign's Cup underway off Kinsale this afternoon (Wednesday, June 25th), and with it the battle for ICRA National Championship honours in eight classes. J109s Storm (Pat Kelly of Dublin on left…
Checkmate XX, Swuzzlebubble, 2Farr and Outrajeous: Key Contenders Ready for Breezy 2025 Sovereign's Cup and ICRA Titles
25th June 2025 Sovereign's Cup
The fleet is in port, and the breeze is forecast to be up, raising the prospect of some pre-championship predictions for the 2025 Kildare Innovation Campus Sovereign's Cup. Kinsale Yacht Club is all set for the 2025 Kildare Innovation Campus Sovereign's Cup Photo:…
With the J/109s and the classic Half Tonners already drawing blood in battle by mid-June, the 2025 Kildare Campus Sovereigns at Kinsale from Wednesday, June 25th to Saturday, June 28th has extra edges in every direction, as it somehow also…
Kinsale Yacht Club is hosting a Webinar this evening (Tuesday, 17th June) to inform and discuss matters relating to its 95-boat Sovereign's Cup in ten days' time. As Afloat reported earlier, the aim is to provide information for skippers, tacticians, and…
The current entry list for the Sovereign's Cup at the end of this month stands at 95, according to Kinsale Yacht Club. In an update to members about the event, which will run from June 25-28, the club says that…
Kinsale Yacht Club is taking an innovative approach to the Sovereign's Cup, which it will be hosting at the end of the month. To provide information for Skippers, Tacticians, and Crew Leads preparing for the event, it will hold a…
81 Boats Enter So Far as Kinsale Yacht Club Launches Sovereign’s Cup 2025 Event
5th April 2025 Sovereign's Cup
Cllr. Joe Carroll, Mayor of the County of Cork, was among key dignitaries to wish fair winds to the Kildare Innovation Campus Sovereign's Cup 2025 at Friday's (April 4th) launch at Kinsale Yacht Club. As Afloat reported previously, Kinsale's charm…
In ranking the attractions of Ireland's sailing centres, the only way you can retain sanity is to take Kinsale out of the equation at the beginning of the process, and put it in a league of its own. For this…
The Sovereigns Cup/Irish Cruiser Racing Association (ICRA) Nationals organiser reports a strong response for June's edition off the coast of Kinsale in County Cork. “Entries are well ahead of expectations,” Cup Director Michael O'Sullivan told Afloat, with 54 boats registered,…
The Irish Cruiser Racing Association (ICRA) has revised the formats for IRC and ECHO Boats of the Year. The updated format will include more regional events from across Ireland and reduce the number of races required for counting. Commodore Denis…
ICRA Conference Set for Updates on 2025 Key Irish Sailing Events This Saturday
11th February 2025 ICRA
Saturday's ICRA Conference at Dun Laoghaire Harbour will provide updates on 2025's key sailing regattas from around the coast. ICRA Commodore Denis Byrne will introduce delegates from the ISORA series, Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta, Calves Week, the Volvo D2D race,…
