Cork Week 2024. Sailing News from Royal Cork Yacht Club's International Regatta
A blaze of Dragons raced at Cork Week with entries from Kinsale YC, Royal St. George YC, Royal Irish YC, and Glandore Harbour YC. Races were held on the Windward Leeward Course off Roches Point. Cameron Good’s Little Fella from…
17 high-performance racer-cruisers had eight races on a mixture of longer round the cans courses and shorter technical windward leeward racetracks during Cork Week 2022 for ICRA National Championships honours. On Day two, the British J/112 Happy Daize was not…
Volvo Cork Week Regatta came to a close in Crosshaven on Friday evening. 192 boats took part in the biggest Week for many years, which incorporated the ICRA National Championships. As Afloat reported this week, racing was held on five…
The third edition of the Beaufort Cup attracted teams from Ireland, UK and the United States for the Service Sailing Regatta with the winning crew taking home the Beaufort Cup. The schedule kicked off with a 120nm race around the…
16 teams had windward leeward and round the cans courses over the five days at Cork Week. John Maybury’s J/109 Joker 2 with a team from the Royal Irish YC, is the ICRA class champion. Joker 2 scored four race wins…
21 teams enjoyed nine races on windward-leeward and round the cans courses at Cork Week. Sam Laidlaw’s Quarter Tonner BLT from the Royal Yacht Squadron Cowes scored seven race wins out of ten to rocket to the class title. Marcus Ryan’s…
Anthony O'Leary's Antix crew scored a first and a second in the final two races, which gave the RCYC ace the inaugural title on his home waters. Six pocket-rocket Cape 31s designed by Wicklow’s Mark Mills, contested the first Cape…
It’s not unreasonable to suggest that there will have been no other skipper in Cork Week sailing to final race victory in a boat designed and built by an ancestor back in 1902 at his family’s own home port, but…
Back at mid-week at Cork Week, we referred to Peter Dunlop with the J/109 Mojito from Pwllheli as the Steady Eddy of the Coastal IRC Class, and he upped his sold game a tiny bit for the final and closest…
43 1720 Sportsboats raced at the biggest meeting for the one-design class for many years at Cork Week. The racing was as intense as the partying at the RCYC Clubhouse. Veteran 1720 sailors joined forces with younger crews for close racing…
Classic yacht Erin did not compete in its class at Royal Cork Yacht Club's Cork Week Regatta on Friday, July 15th. The classic yacht, owned by RCYC member Terry Birles, is subject to a temporary High Court order, arising out…
Three windward leeward races were run for the Cape 31 Class competing for the Irish National Championship at Cork Week on Thursday. Anthony O'Leary’s Antix from the Royal Cork YC still leads the championship after scoring a 1-2-4 today. After…
Royal Irish J109 Joker II Has Nine Point Cushion in Cork Week IRC Two Division
14th July 2022 Cork Week
Cork Week Class IRC Two leader, John Maybury’s J/109 Joker 2 from the Royal Irish YC, scored a seventh in the first race of the day but came fighting back with a win and a second place to all but…
Racing for the Beaufort Cup at Cork Week will conclude on Friday with the winning services team awarded the trophy and €10,000 for their chosen charity. After three days of light and complex racing, a sea breeze kicked in on…
By the finish, the number of contenders in the Cork Week Classics on Thursday could be counted on the fingers of one un-mutilated hand, as overall points leader Bilou-Belle, a Dick Carter Tina design from the late 1960s, dropped out…
The big boat IRC Class has a new Cork Week leader, Team Knight Build racing J/112 Happy Daize from the RORC, scored three straight bullets today (Thursday) to shoot up the leaderboard to pole position. Louise Makin & Chris Jones’…
