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Calves Week Sailing, West Cork, Ireland. Schedule and Race Results
Sponsor Support: Quintas Capital backs Calves Week 2026 in Schull as Kevin MacSweeney, Jack Allen and Kim Ronayne mark the launch beside Schull Harbour ahead of the August regatta.
Being family-oriented, encouraging sailing that combines good racing with leisure, is at the heart of Calves Week in Schull, West Cork, where there are already sixteen boats on the entry list for the event in August. Mark Murphy, Communications and…
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The annual Calves Week in Schull in August is so popular that we've become accustomed to super-star bigger boats winning the top prize. But Rob O'Reilly of Schull Harbour Sailing Club was in no way fazed by this tradition, as…
The West Cork J109 Tighey Boy crew, skippered by Tony O'Brien of Schull Harbour Sailing Club, celebrate its overall win in Calves Week IRC One and Echo
West Cork's 2025 Calves Week Regatta concluded with a final round-the-cans race in Roaring Water Bay on Friday morning (August 8), featuring a mix of new and vintage winners. The fourth race of the Schull Harbour Sailing Club-hosted event saw the overall…
The third race of Cavles Week Regatta 2025 featured moderate westerly winds for the penultimate race
Only a single point separates the top of the leaderboard in IRC Zero and One, but there's no doubting the winning margins in IRC Two, Three and Four divisions as West Cork's 2025 Calves Week Regatta prepares for a fitting…
Sean O'Riordan and John Murphy's First 36.7 'Y Dream' rounds the Fastnet Rock in Wednesday's Calvs Week Regatta in West Cork
Racing round the Fastnet Rock, eight kilometres of the County Cork coast, in light southwesterlies, was in stark contrast to Tuesday's strong wind opener for the 74-boat 2025 Calves Week Regatta fleet.  With two races completed, under Race Officer Alan…
In Class Two, Norbert Reilly's J70 Ghostraider from Howth Yacht Club, helmed by his daughter Lynn, emerged as the clear winner in IRC and ECHO in the first race of Calves Week 2025
There was an action-packed start to the 2025 Calves Week Regatta in Schull, West Cork, this afternoon, as the first race of four was sailed in blustery conditions with winds gusting to 27 knots on the Roaringwater Bay race track.  Racing…
Johnny Treanor's J112e Valentina that sails under the burgees of both the National Yacht Club and Schull Harbour Sailing Club contests the 2025 Calves Week Regatta in West Cork this morning
There will be strong westerly winds for the first races of Calves Week 2025 Regatta at Schull Harbour in West Cork this morning (Tuesday, August 5th). A skippers' briefing confirmed the racing area is Long Island Bay and the Fastnet Rock. All…
The 2025 Calves Week regatta fleet will race its Fastnet Race on Wednesday, 6th August
With over 70 confirmed entries for the Schull Harbour Hotel Sponsored 2025 Calves Week Regatta from August 5th-8th in West Cork, the event looks set to produce another competitive mix of Dublin and Cork boats, particularly in the White Sail division, which…
Former Calves Week champion Rockabill VI will be one of the Class Zero boats racing under ORC handicap for the first time at the 2025 Calves Week Regatta in August
Dublin and Cork boats will meet under ORC handicap for the first time at the 2025 Calves Week Regatta next month after the popular West Cork event amended its Notice of Race to introduce the rule alongside IRC and ECHO handicaps. …
A race round the Fastnet Rock is a traditional part of August's Calves Week Regatta at Schull Harbour.
52 boats have so far registered for the four-day Calves Week at Schull event in West Cork beginning on Tuesday, August 5. Schull Harbour Sailing Club is expecting the total fleet to reach the mid-70s. Race Officer for the Week…
Schull Harbour Hotel Calves Week announcement 2025 pictured from left to right Jack Allan, Commodore SHSC, Derval Murphy, Mark Murphy, Carmel O Regan, Cornelius Ndlovu and Michael Murphy
Schull Harbour Sailing Club has announced that the Schull Harbour Hotel will retain its title sponsorship for this year’s Calves Week Regatta in West Cork. The event is scheduled to take place from August 5th to 8th. Ciaran Fitzgerald from…
Delegates will gather at the National Yacht Club for the ICRA Conference on Saturday, February 15th, discussing key sailing regattas and updates for 2025
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,…
The Royal Irish Yacht Club crew of Rockabill VI, skippered by Paul O'Higgins (right), were the IRC Zero class winners at Calves Week 2024
A final race to the Fastnet Rock saw the conclusion of Calves Week Regatta at Schull Harbour Sailing Club on Friday with points tight at the top of the scoreboard (provisional results published below) in the 61-boat fleet after three breezy…
Calves Week Regatta in Schull, West Cork, has been postponed on Thursday (August 8) until 13.30 due to poor visibility
Racing at West Cork's biggest sailing event, Calves Week Regatta in Schull, has been postponed until 13.30 on Thursday due to poor visibility. The 61-boat fleet has had two blustery days of inshore racing, but the schedule has already been…
Nobby Reilly's Ghost Raider II prepares to hoist the kite on a second day of blustery racing at Calves Week Regatta 2024 off Schull Harbour
Thrills and spills were again the order of the day as the Calves Week Regatta fleet was met with blustery southwesterly winds and misty conditions. Race Officer Alan Crosbie started all 61 competitors from a line at the mouth of Schull…
The Burke/Lemass/Rigley syndicate in the First 40, Prima Forte lying third in IRC Zero after race one of 2024 Calves Week Regatta
At the end of day one at Schull Harbour's Calves Week Regatta, blustery westerly winds gusting to 20 gusts brought a mix of new and vintage designs to the podium at West Cork's biggest regatta. Schull Harbour on day one…

Calves Week Regatta takes place in Schull in early August, continuing the annual tradition in West Cork since the inception of the Schull Harbour Sailing Club in 1884.

In more recent years, a more compact schedule as an alternative to the older two-week even has proved popular.

The four-day Calves Week Championships with the usual mix of courses taking in the Fastnet Rock and many of Carbery's Hundred Isles, together with laid courses in Roaringwater Bay is one of Irish sailing's enduring fixtures. 

A daily prize-giving takes place on Main Street in Schull, which sees a nautical festival theme for the village organised by local businesses.