Women in Sailing
Former Kinsale sailor Steph Lyons, the Kildare horsewoman who includes experience of the Sail Training Brigantine Asgard II in her seafaring story, is continuing to add to her remarkable CV in Australia, where she works in a senior role in…
Irish Woman Pamela Lee Among Record Breaking Transat Jacques Vabre Fleet Due a Strong Winds Start This Afternoon
29th October 2023 Transatlantic Jacques Vabre
A record-breaking fleet of 95 boats, which is set to start the 16th edition of the Transat Jacques Vabre Normandie Le Havre double-handed race from Le Havre to Martinique, is set to encounter very robust conditions as they leave the…
Pamela Lee of Greystones Races In Ultra-Challenging Transat Jacques Vabre At End Of Great Sailing Week For Ireland
28th October 2023 W M Nixon
It has been a remarkable week for Irish sailing, with our clubs last weekend managing to get in the complete programme of Autumn League racing despite being close in on the tail end of Storm Babet. Meanwhile, Eve McMahon confirmed…
The Famous Project & Breaking the Non-Stop Unassisted Round-the-World Record on the Maxi-Trimaran IDEC-Sport
15th October 2023 Jules Verne Trophy
Round the World Sailors Alexia Barrier and Dee Caffari gave the latest RORC Talk about ‘The Famous Project’ at the London Clubhouse, on the 10th of October. The live recording is now available. View the hour-long talk on RORC TV…
“Offshore sailing is a mechanical sport, and it is an intellectual sport. More than using physical abilities and power, you can use your head to get the boat to work for you.” That piece of advice could, it seems to…
Solo Global Circumnavigator Pip Hare On Women in Sailing, Managing Fear and Her New Vendéé Globe Campaign
6th October 2023 Wavelength Podcast
Pip Hare picked up a magazine one day to read about the BOC challenge, which was the forerunner to the Vendéé Globe. “And all of a sudden, there is Isabelle Autissier, absolutely kicking arse and being written about in the…
Östling's WINGS Crew are Crowned 2023 Women’s World Match Racing Tour Champions
25th September 2023 Match Racing
Sweden’s WINGS match racing team led by Anna Östling has been x after winning the final stage of the tour at the KDY Women’s Match Race in Skovshoved Harbour. New Zealand’s Celia Willison/ EDGE Women’s Match finished the world tour…
Royal Irish Yacht Club in association with BDO to host talk with Pip Hare
21st September 2023 Royal Irish Yacht Club
Dun Laoghaire Harbour's Royal Irish Yacht Club and professional services firm BDO will co-host an exclusive evening with Pip Hare, the solo ocean sailor, on Thursday, October 5 at 7:00 pm. As Afloat reported at the time, Hare, who turned…
Women on the Water Programme Sees Increase in Female Participation in Northern Ireland Sailing Clubs
24th August 2023 Women in Sailing
The roller coaster programme that is the RYA Northern Ireland’s Women on the Water has seen a satisfyingly noticeable increase in the numbers of women sailing and taking to the water on paddleboards and windsurfers. Recently, the Donaghadee Club on…
The RC44 Class Rule has been rewritten to allow for at least one female crew member this season, and the 44Cup will be seeing its first all-female team next week. The nine competing teams will include the "black boat," typically…
When the first Fastnet Race was sailed in 1925 amidst controversy over the foolhardiness of bringing “reckless competition” into ocean voyaging, the last thing on the organisers’ mind was the crazy thought that by 2023, with the 50th Fastnet getting…
The Ocean Race 2022-23 featured more female sailors than in any of the previous events in the race’s 50-year history. Overall, across the five IMOCAs taking part in the round-the-world race and the six VO65s taking part in the The…
If you could bottle the energy, enthusiasm and excitement of the 24 ladies who took advantage of East Down Yacht Club’s day set aside for women to learn how to handle a big boat, then a fortune is to be…
No sooner than the 40 Wayfarer dinghies left East Down Yacht Club last weekend after their successful International rally, it’s the turn of bigger boats to step up for a Ladies’ Cruise in Company. On Sunday 25th June, the club,…
Ireland's Joan Mulloy in All Female Round the World Jules Verne Trophy Bid
14th June 2023 Jules Verne Trophy
An international all-female team that includes Ireland's Joan Mulloy are taking on the Jules Verne Trophy Challenge. The Famous Project, led by Alexia Barrier and co-skipper Dee Caffari, aims to break the record for the fastest circumnavigation of the planet…
Twenty-four hours into the CIC Normandy Channel Race and Irish Offshore sailor Pamela Lee co-skippering the Class 40 yacht '154' is lying 23rd in the fleet. The 1000-miler that started on Sunday sees Lee embark on a new journey with French co-skipper Tiphanie Ragueneau.…