ISORA
ISORA Celebrates Golden Jubilee with Return to Traditional Irish Offshore Racing Season in 2022
8th December 2021 ISORA
Following its AGM, ISORA aims to run the full traditional offshore series including the Wolf’s Head overall trophy in what will be its 50th season. There are great plans for the 2022 season. We have proposed a separate Coastal Series…
Significant changes to the ISORA 2022 fixtures schedule (downloadable here) on the Irish Sea will be discussed online at this year's Irish Sea Offshore Racing Association (ISORA) Annual General Meeting. The offshore body promotes offshore racing on both side of the channel, principally…
ISORA Highlights 'Significant Changes' for 2022 Irish Offshore Sailing Season
21st November 2021 ISORA
Some significant changes to the ISORA 2022 fixtures schedule (downloadable below) on the Irish Sea are highlighted by ISORA Chairman Peter Ryan ahead of this year's online AGM. The Offshore will be a stand-alone series for ISORA's overall Wolf’s Head…
At first light on Saturday 5th July 1980 off Wicklow, Johnny Morris of Pwllheli - who has died aged 88 - secured himself a permanent place in the story of offshore racing. In command of Force Tension, a One Tonner…
Royal Irish's Rockabill Wins ISORA's James Eadie Race 15 From Pwllheli to Dun Laoghaire Harbour
12th September 2021 ISORA
Top Irish offshore yacht Rockabill VI was first in line honours, first in IRC overall and class in the seven-boat James Eadie long offshore (76-miles) from Pwllheli to Dun Laoghaire yesterday. Race 15 was the final race of the Musto ISORA Offshore Series…
Overall Placings in Irish & UK Musto ISORA Offshore Series to be Decided in Final Race
10th September 2021 ISORA
Out of an entry list of 13 boats, seven will take part in the last offshore of the Musto ISORA Offshore Series on Saturday. The 'Long Offshore' will start from Pwllheli in North Wales at 10 am and sail a…
Kneen's JPK 11.80 Has the RORC Season Win But Castle Rock Race Presents Irish Runner Up Possibilities
8th September 2021 RORC
The Royal Ocean Racing Club Season’s Points Championship concludes this weekend in the UK with the Castle Rock Race, the grand finale for the RORC season. The eleventh and final race for 2021 will decide the class winners for the…
Irish Interest Grows in Malta's Middle Sea Race as Entry Reaches 100 Yacht Milestone
6th September 2021 Middle Sea Race
With 50 days to the start of the 42nd Rolex Middle Sea Race, the Royal Malta Yacht Club (RMYC) is preparing itself for a stellar fleet and there is Irish offshore sailing interest in the lineup too with Kinsale's XP50…
Provisional results give Paul O'Higgins' Rockabill VI the overall win in ISORA's Race No. 12. The Royal Irish JPK 10.80 was the line honours winner in the slated 35-mile coastal day race that started and finished Dun Laoghaire Harbour. It was a light…
Pwllheli's J/109 Mojito Wins ISORA Cross Channel Race from Dun Laoghaire Harbour
2nd August 2021 ISORA
First in IRC One and first in IRC overall, Peter Dunlop and Vicky Cox sailing the J109 Mojito were the winners of the seven-boat ISORA race from Dun Laoghaire to Pwllheli on Saturday. Andrew Hall's Jackknife took line honours in…
ISORA Tests The Waters With First Cross Channel Offshore Race in Nearly Two Years
30th July 2021 ISORA
ISORA will stage its first cross-channel race in nearly two years on Saturday morning for a 75-mile offshore race from Dun Laoghaire Harbour to Pwllheli. Despite teething problems with COVID passports, new customs procedures, a clash with deliveries to Calves Week…
Peter Dunlop and Vicky Cox's J/109 Mojito were winners of the Tremadog Bay 'pop up' Regatta at Pwllheli Sailing Club in North Wales. This Welsh regatta was organised over the same days as the cancelled Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta - hence…
According to provisional tracker results, reigning Irish ISORA Champion Paul O'Higgin's in the JPK 10.80 Rockabill VI was the winner of yesterday's 35-mile Dublin coastal race. There was a fine turnout of 14 competitive boats for Race Ten of the…
There is a 'quality' fleet now assembled for Saturday's 35-mile Viking Marine sponsored ISORA race that starts and finishes at Dun Laoghaire Harbour. With entries still open for race ten of the season, the Irish fleet is back to full strength…
14 strong and competitive entries have been received for Saturday's ISORA Race ten of the Musto Irish Coastal Series including potent Greystones 2021 debutante, Frank Whelan's new J122, Kaya. The July 10th race will be to and from Dun Laoghaire…
Reigning ISORA Champion Rockabill VI Paul O'Higgins leads this season's ISORA Irish points series after Saturday's 64-mile offshore race from Dublin. The Royal Irish JPK 10.80 also leads in the overall combined UK and Irish ISORA league. As regular Afloat readers know,…