Irish Fireball Sailing Dinghy News & Regatta Results
#FIREBALL – For the Irish Fireballers sailing in Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club’s Frostbite Series, the morning of Sunday 11th March might as just as easily have been Sunday 10th June such was the weather – clear blue skies, temperatures…
#FIREBALL – For those travelling from across the water (not the Liffey!), Howth Yacht Club is making a big gesture for June's Irish Fireball championships by promising to accommodate as many visitors as possible in members' houses. The country's biggest…
#FIREBALL – For the second Sunday in a row, the Frostbite racing was held outside Dun Laoghaire harbour. Weather conditions defied the time of year with sunshine, clear blue skies and extremely mild temperatures. Despite missing a number of regulars,…
#FIREBALL – Bright sunshine greeted the Fireball Frostbite fleet in Dun Laoghaire yesterday and combined with 8-12 knots of breeze, it allowed the fleet to race outside the harbour for the first time this year. Thirteen boats took to the…
#FIREBALL – Top Irish dinghy sailing class, the Fireballs have announced the 2012 Irish Fireball Nationals will be hosted by Howth Yacht Club over the last Friday and Saturday of June and the first Sunday of July – 29th, 30th…
#FIREBALL – Fifteen Fireballs took to the water for last Sunday's Frostbite race but only 14 of them got a finish – Andy Boyle & Barry Hurley (14934, Royal Irish) – were recorded as an OCS! Wind conditions were lively…
After last week’s racing was abandoned due to high winds, a soggy Dun Laoghaire saw the restart of the Frostbite racing yesterday. It rained the entire day and initially there didn’t seem to be enough breeze to warrant a race,…
#FROSTBITE – The second Dun Laoghaire frostbite race of 2012 was sailed in blustery, breezy and shifty conditions in Dun Laoghaire’s harbour on Sunday 15th January. A very healthy turnout of 17 boats contested a 5 lap race which saw…
#FIREBALL – Tom Gillard and Sam Brearey, GBR 15041, are the 2012 Fireball world Champions after the 2012 title fight went all the way down to the last race. Race Officer Robin Olsen and his team had a challenging day…
# FiREBALL – As the report that precedes this one suggested, the penultimate day of the Fireball Worlds in Mandurah saw a duel in the sun and waves between the young British combination Tom Gillard and Sam Brearey and the…
#FIREBALL – Another two races, 5 & 6, were sailed in the Fireball Worlds in Mandurah today, with the end result that the order of the top five changed. The report on the Yachts and Yachting website describes the wind…
#FIREBALL – As was to be expected, the challenge for the 2012 Fireball Worlds title has become a showdown between the Aussies and the Brits. There is no Irish representation at the Western Australia event, just six months on…
#SAILING – The last race of the 2011 season for Irish Fireballs started under clear blue skies but with a cold aspect to the breeze which came from a westerly direction. As the afternoon progressed a distinct change in weather…
#FIREBALL – The Committee Boat for the Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club Frostbites was located at the end of the east pier yesterday to set a course with a wind bearing of 260º. However, local vagaries in the wind reduced…
#FIREBALL– In contrast to the blue skies and sunshine of the previous Sundays, in November, the first December Sunday of the Frostbites in Dun Laoghaire was typified by more seasonal weather, cold, grey skies and blustery conditions. Yet again the…
#FIREBALL – New Irish Fireball Class Chairman, Neil Colin (14775), was Master of Ceremonies when the Irish Fireball fleet celebrated the (regatta) season just concluded with its prize-giving dinner hosted by Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club on Friday evening 25th…
