Irish Dragon Class Sailing News and Regatta Results
Entries Open as Kinsale Yacht Club Prepares Host Prestigious Dragon Gold Cup in 2024
20th February 2024 Dragon
Kinsale Yacht Club has announced entry is open for its staging of the Dragon Gold Cup, sponsored by Astra Construction Services Ltd, from September 6 to 13, 2024. This year's event will attract over 60 teams from more than 20…
Irish Fleet Join British Dragons for AGM and 75th Edinburgh Cup Video Presentation
5th February 2024 Dragon
Members of the British Dragon Association (BDA) and their guests came together at the Royal Thames Yacht Club in Knightsbridge, London, for the BDA’s Annual General Meeting and Dinner in January. The evening kicked off with the AGM, where outgoing…
Irish Dragon sailors were in action in Portugal at the weekend with Royal Cork and Baltimore's Harry Durcan on board the winning boat in round two of the Algarve Dragon Winter Cup at Vilamoura. Durcan was part of a four-up…
Royal St George Yacht Club Dragon 'Jaguar' is Third at Coupe D’ Hiver in Cannes
6th December 2023 Dragon
Royal St George Yacht Club's Jaguar Sailing Team of Martin Byrne, Adam Winkelmann and Rory Byrne took third overall at last weekend's Yacht Club de Cannes, Coupe D’ Hiver des Dragons. 17 Dragons from eight countries competed with victory going…
Preparations are underway in Kinsale for celebrations to mark the 80th anniversary of one of the most prestigious international sailing events. From 6 to 13 September 2024, Kinsale will welcome Dragon sailors from across the globe to compete for the…
Lough Derg Yacht Club Pulled Out All the Stops For Its Annual Freshwater Regatta
20th October 2023 Inland Waterways
At the end of a busy season for many clubs in Dun Laoghaire Harbour and along the west coast, Lough Derg Yacht Club played host to the Fresh Water Keelboat Regatta last weekend, drawing a fleet of over 60 boats…
Counting four race wins Kinsale Yacht Club's Shawn Kingston, Donal Small and Conor Hemlock, sailing 'Grey Hare' were the clear winners of the Dragon Class at a cut-short Lough Derg Yacht Club Freshwater Keelboat One Design Regatta on Sunday. Five races…
Lawrie Smith of Glandore is “Sailor of the Month (International)" for September
1st October 2023 Sailor of the Month
Early in the 1960s, Sid Smith – a builder and developer from Bury near Manchester – secured the site for the modest holiday home of his dreams beside the harbour in Glandore in West Cork. Summers in Glandore with much…
The life story of Sean Flood, who has died at the age of 91, is in many ways the story of modern Ireland as seen through a sailing and business lens. From a family of traditionally and strongly patriotic outlook,…
Glandore's Lawrie Smith Wins in Torquay as Dragon Focus Turns to Gold Cup 2024 in Kinsale
16th September 2023 Dragon
A fifth race in warm sunshine and a light east-south-easterly concluded the 2023 Yanmar Dragon Gold Cup in Torquay. Going into the final day, British Olympian, America’s Cup and Whitbread Race veteran Lawrie Smith and his crew of Ruaridh Scott,…
Zankl is a Race Winner But Glandore's Smith Reigns Overall With Two Races Left at Dragon Gold Cup
14th September 2023 Dragon
Torquay finally delivered perfect sailing conditions for day five of the Dragon Gold Cup 2023, where the previously abandoned race four was re-sailed in glorious sunshine and a south-south-easterly breeze which built from around 10 to 15 knots through the…
Day four of the Dragon Gold Cup 2023 in Torquay brought frustration for the sailors and race committee alike, as race four of the six-race series had to be abandoned on the second beat when the wind died off completely.…
Day three of the Yanmar Dragon Gold Cup 2023 at Torquay brought yet more ultra-shifty and variable breeze, this time from the northwest quadrant, which built from around six knots at the start of racing to sixteen by the finish,…
Dismasted But Lawrie Smith's Glandore Dragon 'Alife' Continues to Lead Gold Cup in Torquay
12th September 2023 Dragon
The second day of racing at the Dragon Gold Cup 2023 in Torquay brought an intensely fought second race and more than a few dramatic incidents. Just as the race was about to get underway a call came over the…
Glandore Yacht Club’s Lawrie Smith, the 2015 Gold Cup and 2011 Dragon World Champion, and this season's Edinburgh Cup champion, emerged victorious in the Børge Børresen Memorial Trophy after a gruelling 10-mile-long windward leeward course in challenging conditions. From Ireland,…
Four Irish Dragon keelboats are in the hunt for the Gold Cup 2023 this weekend in Torquay. Hosted by the Royal Torbay Yacht Club (RTYC), the regatta will officially begin with an Opening Ceremony on the Harbourside at 18:00 on…
