Match Race News from Ireland, Organisation & Regatta Results
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…
National Yacht Club Announces Dun Laoghaire Match Racing Cup for Later This Month
2nd September 2023 National YC
The National Yacht Club has announced the Dun Laoghaire Match Racing Cup to take place on Saturday 30 September and Sunday 1 October. Ten teams will complete in the club’s Elliott 6M fleet on what promises to be an action-packed…
The Governor’s Cup match racing regatta in California, USA, came to an exciting conclusion on its last day with intense competition between skilled sailors. The day began with the continuation of the semi-final races from the previous day and sail-offs…
UCD's Tom Higgins in Final Field of Twelve Skippers for California's 56th Governor’s Cup in July
26th June 2023 Match Racing
The twelve-team field for the 56th-annual Governor’s Cup International Youth Match Racing Championship is now final, with a record eight countries represented. As Afloat previously reported, Dun Laoghaire helmsman Tom Higgins became the first Irish sailor to receive an invitation…
Dun Laoghaire Harbour's National Yacht Club will be hosting a Match Racing Invitational supported by Viking Marine in its fleet of Elliott 6m one-design keelboats on the 27th and 28th of May Building on the success of the inaugural Student…
UCD's Tom Higgins Receives Match Race Invitation to Governors Cup, California
26th April 2023 Team Racing
Dun Laoghaire helmsman Tom Higgins has become the first Irish sailor to receive an invitation to skipper an entry in the prestigious youth Governors' Cup Match Racing Championship event in California. Royal St George's Higgins is an Ad Astra sports…
Chris Poole is Undefeated Match Racing Champion of 58th Long Beach Yacht Club Congressional Cup
23rd April 2023 Match Racing
Chris Poole (USA) and Riptide Racing have swept the Long Beach Yacht Club Congressional Match Racing Cup, sailing undefeated in five days of thrilling competition. Jeppe Borch (DEN) finished second, Nick Egnot-Johnson (NZL) third. The Congressional Cup - a Grade…
Skipper Loghlen Rickard with crew Oisin Cullen and Kate O’Connor on UCD 2 were the victors in the National Yacht Club’s inaugural Student Match Racing Invitational, which took place in Dun Laoghaire last weekend 1-2 April. The event brought six…
National Yacht Club’s First Student Match Racing Invitational Is This Weekend
1st April 2023 National YC
As previously reported on Afloat.ie, the National Yacht Club’s inaugural Student Match Racing Invitational is taking place in Dun Laoghaire this weekend 1-2 April. The event brings together the top varsity sailors in the country in what promises to be…
The World Match Racing Tour (WMRT) has announced its 2023 world championship season with a fifteen-event schedule across ten countries, including the return of founding Tour events - the Congressional Cup/USA, Match Cup Sweden and Bermuda Gold Cup. The WMRT…
Strangford Lough's Juliette Kennedy Fourth in UK Women's Match Racing Championship
15th February 2023 Match Racing
The sell-out RYA Marlow Ropes Women's Match Racing Championship finale saw two Scottish skippers battling for the title, with Alison Morrish's team taking the crown and Irish Flying Fifteen champion Juliette Kennedy of Strangford Lough finishing fourth. The latest edition…
The world’s top match racing skippers will return to Long Beach, Calif. April 18 to 22, 2023 for the 58th Congressional Cup regatta at Long Beach Yacht Club, and a founding event on the World Match Racing Tour. Reigning 2022…
The Women’s World Match Racing Tour has announced four events for its 2023 season, including San Francisco, Annapolis, Le Havre, and Copenhagen. The Tour is the world’s only professional sailing series for women designed to promote and grow female participation…
New Zealand Yacht Squadron Team Win Match Racing World Championships
18th December 2022 Match Racing
Nick Egnot-Johnson, Sam Barnett, Zak Merton & Bradley McLaughlin, representing the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron have been crowned 2022 Open Match Racing World Champions after an epic five days of racing on Sydney Harbour in strong conditions. USA’s Chris…
Sydney Harbour's World Match Racing Tour Final Confirms Skippers from Seven Nations
7th December 2022 Match Racing
The line-up for the World Match Racing Tour Final 2022 has been confirmed, with ten teams invited for the inaugural Tour event to be sailed on Sydney Harbour. In just under a week, the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, home…
'Match in Pink' Match Racing Team Successfully Defend World Title in Auckland
13th November 2022 Match Racing
Pauline Courtois and her Match in Pink match racing team from France have successfully defended their world title, winning the 2022 Barfoot & Thompson World Women’s Match Racing Championships in Auckland, New Zealand. The team were also crowned champions of…
