Dun Laoghaire's New Ker 46 'Tonnerre de Breskens 3' to Contest Round Ireland Race and IRC Europeans
8th May 2024 Round Ireland
Noted Dublin Bay inshore and offshore sailor Pete Smyth of the Royal Irish Yacht Club has purchased the famous Ker 46 Tonnerre de Breskens 3 which will arrive in Dublin Bay three weeks before its first major event, the 2024…
Six Irish boats are competing at the Flying Fifteen European Championships starting on Thursday (March 9th) at Crozon Morgat in Brittany. With crews also from France, Spain, Belgium, and the usual UK contenders, it promises to be an exciting four-day event.…
Race Officer Tadgh Donnelly, aboard the committee boat 'Spirit of the Irish', set a three-round windward/leeward course in a 10-knot southwesterly breeze for the third Water Wag race of the AIB/DBSC 2024 season. The 23-boat fleet’s start was postponed due…
Dickson and Waddilove Lead Irish Hopes and Selection Trials at 49er Europeans
8th May 2024 Paris 2024 Olympic Sailing
The outcome of the final Irish Olympic sailing selection trial for Paris 2024 remains finely balanced between two rivals after the first qualifying races in La Grande Motte in the South of France. Robert Dickson and Sean Waddilove from Dublin's Howth Yacht Club and Skerries…
Irish Melges 15 Fleet Set to Double with Arrival of a Dozen New Melges into Howth Yacht Club
7th May 2024 Melges 15
Howth Yacht Club in Ireland is set to receive a full container of 12 Melges 15s next week, as the class continues to grow rapidly. This arrival will double the Irish fleet to 24 boats, with a strong fleet of…
Olympic Silver Medalist Annalise Murphy is Guest Speaker at Women At The Helm Regatta 2024
7th May 2024 Women in Sailing
The 2024 Women At The Helm Regatta (WATH) will be hosted by the National Yacht Club over the weekend of May 24-26. The event encourages female sailors who may not normally lead, to step up and make the move from crew to helm.…
The Royal St. George Yacht Club's Adrian Lee of Dun Laoghaire has finished third overall in his Swan 60 Lee Overlay Partners II at Antigua Sailing Week in the Caribbean. Lee, a previous winner of the Caribbean 600 Race, finished…
National Yacht Club Cruising Group Sails to Greystones Harbour with 20-Boat Fleet
6th May 2024 National YC
The National Yacht Club's first 'Cruise in Company' sail of the season saw an impressive turnout of 20 boats. The boats gathered at Scotsman's Bay on Sunday, May 5, at 12:30 p.m. before embarking on a leisurely 12-mile journey south…
Dublin Bay Sailing Club's second AIB Saturday race of the 2024 season was sailed on May 4th in medium westerly winds on an overcast Dublin Bay. Sean Lemass's First 40 Prima Forte won from Chris Power Smith's J122 Aurelia in IRC…
Dun Laoghaire’s National Yacht Club Is Benignly Haunted By Spirit of John B Kearney
4th May 2024 W M Nixon
The National Yacht Club, handsomely sited in the southeast corner of Dun Laoghaire Harbour, was certainly looking its part as the current MG Motor “Sailing Cub of the Year” last Saturday morning. The sun shone, and in the crisp onshore…
Dublin Bay Sailing Club's (DBSC) Thursday evening racing was cancelled tonight due to very light winds. Winds measuring just over one knot meant the second Thursday race of the 2024 AIB summer season was scrubbed in all classes at Dun…
Top Irish Match Racers Prepare for National Yacht Club Hosted Championships
2nd May 2024 Match Racing
Royal St. George's top Irish match racer, Tom Higgins, will confront March's Student Match Racing National Championships winner, Jamie McMahon of Howth Yacht Club, among others, when the National Yacht Club (NYC) hosts the Irish Match Racing National Championships (IMRA)…
On Wednesday evening, 22 boats turned out for the second Water Wag race of the AIB DBSC 2024 season at Dun Laoghaire Harbour. Race Officer Tadgh Donnelly set a three round windward/leeward course in a six-knot ESE’ly breeze. The strong…
Royal Cork’s Admiral Annamarie Fegan & Nieulargo Crew are Sailors of the Month (Inshore) for April
1st May 2024 Sailor of the Month
The Royal Cork YC’s Grand Soleil 40 Nieulargo is always a busy boat, and usually successful too. But things are in over-drive for 2024 and 2025, as co-owner-skipper Annamarie Fegan - aka Mrs Denis Murphy - is also the RCYC’s…
Most offshore sailors would be well pleased to have notched their season’s start with a win in April, but Howth’s Simon Knowles goes into May with two bullets already in the bag for the J/109 Indian in the first races…
Dun Laoghaire’s Clementine van Steenberge and Jessica Riordan are Sailors of the Month (Youth) For April
1st May 2024 Sailor of the Month
The nuclear fusion generated by the focus of elite 29er training in Dun Laoghaire – currently centred on the National YC with Thomas Chaix – meant that the class was one of those that elected to have a four-day series…