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ICRA Championship Social Programme Announced for Royal St George Yacht Club Event

26th March 2019
Regatta scene at the Royal St. George - the club has announced the social programme for the ICRA Championships in June Regatta scene at the Royal St. George - the club has announced the social programme for the ICRA Championships in June Credit: RStGYC/Facebook

With entries filling fast the ICRA Cruiser Racer National Championships at the Royal St George Yacht Club, look set up to be a huge success (81 entries as previously reported by Afloat.ie here). The championship which will be sailed from the 7th to 9th of June is open to all Cruiser Racers with an IRC or Echo handicap. As ‘lift-ins’ happen around the country this April, the ICRAs look like the extra event that many are set to add to their racing calendar.

Underpinning the excellent ‘on-the-water’ race management led by David Lovegrove PRO, the Royal St George have announced their social programme for the event. With variety in mind, the sailors will be treated to a wide spread of great food from dawn to dusk. Breakfast will be available each morning and every evening and you can choose from a quick bite to a casual dinner. All efforts are being made to have a core focus on keeping all the sailors in one place, enhancing the party atmosphere and creating great opportunities to swap stories and connect with fellow sailors.

New Royal St George, Operations Manager House, Jamie Egan will have the event under his watchful eye and brings huge experience with him having run all the events and catering at the St Stephens Green & Hibernian Club. The George has always had the reputation for the best parties and the ICRAs promises the same! Over 100 volunteers have been mobilised for this event which aims to make the experience for the racers seamless both afloat and ashore.

Social Programme for ICRA National Championships

Thursday 06th June
1900hrs BBQ on forecourt
2100hrs Skippers Briefing

Friday 07th June
0800hrs Breakfast on the forecourt
0800hrs Coffee & pastries in Club Room bar
1600hrs BBQ on forecourt
1800hrs Sailing Supper in Dining Room
1900hrs Daily Prize-Giving
2000hrs DJ til late

Saturday 08th June
0800hrs Breakfast on the forecourt
0800hrs Coffee & pastries in Club Room bar
1600hrs BBQ on forecourt
1800hrs Sailing Supper in Dining Room
1900hrs Daily Prize-Giving
2000hrs DJ til late

Sunday 09th June
0800hrs Breakfast on the forecourt
0800hrs Coffee & pastries in Club Room bar
1500hrs BBQ on forecourt
1600hrs ICRA Prize Giving

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The Irish Cruiser Racing Association (ICRA) Information

The creation of the Irish Cruiser Racing Association (ICRA) began in a very low key way in the autumn of 2002 with an exploratory meeting between Denis Kiely, Jim Donegan and Fintan Cairns in the Granville Hotel in Waterford, and the first conference was held in February 2003 in Kilkenny.

While numbers of cruiser-racers were large, their specific locations were widespread, but there was simply no denying the numerical strength and majority power of the Cork-Dublin axis. To get what was then a very novel concept up and running, this strength of numbers had to be acknowledged, and the first National Championship in 2003 reflected this, as it was staged in Howth.

ICRA was run by a dedicated group of volunteers each of whom brought their special talents to the organisation. Jim Donegan, the elder statesman, was so much more interested in the wellbeing of the new organisation than in personal advancement that he insisted on Fintan Cairns being the first Commodore, while the distinguished Cork sailor was more than content to be Vice Commodore.

ICRA National Championships

Initially, the highlight of the ICRA season was the National Championship, which is essentially self-limiting, as it is restricted to boats which have or would be eligible for an IRC Rating. Boats not actually rated but eligible were catered for by ICRA’s ace number-cruncher Denis Kiely, who took Ireland’s long-established native rating system ECHO to new heights, thereby providing for extra entries which brought fleet numbers at most annual national championships to comfortably above the hundred mark, particularly at the height of the boom years. 

ICRA Boat of the Year (Winners 2004-2019)

YEARBOATSKIPPERCLUBBOAT MODEL
2019 Rockabill VI Paul O'Higgins Royal Irish Yacht Club JPK1080
2017-2018 Checkmate XV Dave Cullen Howth Yacht Club Half Tonner
2016 Joker II John Maybury Royal Irish Yacht Club J109
2015 WOW George Sisk Royal Irish Yacht Club Farr 42
2014 Antix
Catapult
Quokka		 Anthony O'Leary
Mark Glimcher
Michael Boyd & Niall Dowling		   Ker 39
Ker 40+
Gand Soleil 43
2013 Full Irish David Kennefick Royal Cork Yacht Club Figaro 2
2012 NUI Galway Cathal Clarke & Matin Breen NUI & Galway Bay Sailing Club Reflex 38
2011 Storm Pat Kelly Howth Yacht Club & Rush Sailing Club J109
2010 Antix
Mariner's Cove
Roxy 6		 Anthony O'Leary
Dave Dwyer
Andrew Creigton		 Royal Cork Yacht Club Ker 39
Mills 37
Corby 36
2009 Kinetic Richard Colwell & Tom Murphy Howth Yacht Club Corby 25
2008 Mariner's Cove
Rosie		 Dave Dwyer
Roy Dickinson		 Royal Cork Yacht Club
Howth Yacht Club		 Mills 37
Corby 36
2007 Jump Juice Conor Phelan Royal Cork Yacht Club Ker 37
2006 Chieftain Jer O'Rourke RWYC Cookson 50
2005 Antix Anthony O'Leary Royal Cork Yacht Club Corby 36
2004 Voodoo Chile Eamonn Crosbie

 

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