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Greystones Event Concludes 2012 RS Sailing Circuit
#RS – The weather Gods promised lots of wind, then none, then some, and then in the end there was some, then none. That said, the excellent Race Team managed to get 3 terrific races in on Saturday in a shifty…
North and South RS Sailors Converge on Hospitable Strangford Lough Yacht Club
Fifteen RS 400s, from as far South as Glandore and as far North as Cushendall formed the main appetiser for the latest RS Ireland traveller series event. A smaller group of RS200s and RS Fevas also battled it out over…
Belfast Crew Finish Second at RS Elite Champs in Cowes
#rselite – Northern Ireland's Tiffany Brien, Graham Bailey and Simon Brien have finished second overall at the RS Elite UK Championships in Cowes today. The RS Elite Class took another significant step forward with this exceptional Championship. The largest fleet…
Tiffany Brien Lying Third Overall at RS Elite Nationals
#rs – Northern Ireland's Tiffany and Simon Brien along with Graham Bailey are in third overall at the RS Elite National Championships with one race left to sail to day in Cowes. There were more testing conditions on the Solent yesterday,…
NI Dragon Champion Challenges for RS Elite Title in Cowes
#rselite – Belfast lough's Simon Brien who won last month's Dragon class Edinburgh cup on home waters is switching boats to challenge for the RS Elite Nationals in Cowes next week. Hosted by the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes with…
Success for Royal St George Teams at Irish RS Nationals
#RS SAILING - Howth Yacht Club hosted 54 boats in three classes for the RS400, RS200 and RS Feva National Championships over the weekend (click HERE for photos). The Irish version of the 'RS Games' proved a big hit with…
Greystones Sailors Occupy Top Slots at RS Sailing Weekend in Howth (Photos!)
#rs – Greytones sailors occupy the top three places of the RS200 national championships fleet after three races sailed in Howth today. Roy Van Maanen and Glen Reid lead from clubmates Graeme Noonan and Brian McCarthy. Full results here. In…
Irish RS Feva, 200 & 400 Fleets Set a Course for Howth Yacht Club
#RS – UK visitors are among the teams expected to compete in the RS Class National Championships - incorporating the RS Feva, RS200 and RS400 divisions - that will be hosted by Howth Yacht Club from August 17th-19th. A schedule…
Tough Test for Man and Machine at RS400 & RS200 Eastern Champs
#RS – The second event of this year's RS400 and RS200 traveller series was held at Newcastle Yacht Club Co. Down. The picturesque race area at the foot of the Mourne Mountains proved to be a tough test for both…
Four Firsts for Craig's New RS200
#RS SAILING – The RS400, RS200 and RS Feva traveller series kicked off this weekend on Lough Ree Yacht Club. A brisk North-Easterly blowing down the Lough greeted the RS teams on Saturday morning. The conditions were made tougher with…
RS Classes Head Inland to Lough Ree
The Irish RS Dinghy Class Association Inland Championship is set to take place at Lough Ree Yacht Club on the weekend of the 28th and 29th of April. This will be the first time the Feva class will join up…
RS200/400 Demo at Royal St George Next Weekend
#RS SAILING - UK RS Association chairman Pete Vincent will be running another RS200 and 400 demo day from the Royal St George Yacht Club on the weekend of 24-25 March. The well-known expert on RS boats is being brought…
Irish RS Fleet Publish Six Fixture Dates for 2012
  #RS – There’s a busy year afloat in prospect for the rapidly expanding Irish RS400 and RS200 dinghy sailing fleets with six events scheduled for the 2012 season. A five event traveller series kicks off with the Inlands at…
RS Boat Builder Reveals New Women's Skiff
#SKIFF – Testing of the production specification RS900, RS Sailing's contender for selection as the new women's Olympic skiff, is underway. It's a sleek looking affair as you might expect that will take women's sailing into a whole new area…
Gales Can't Stop Inaugural Dun Laoghaire Dinghy Event
An impressive turnout of 30 RS400's and RS200's braved extremely testing conditions inside Dun Laoghoire Harbour for the running of the first edition of the RS Sprint Trophy. The crews, who made the trip from as far a field as…
Inaugural RS400 & RS200 Sprint Trophy Preview
This Saturday's inaugural RS400 & RS200 Sprint Trophy hosted by the Royal St George Yacht Club, sees the regular contenders face off in this season's finale against some formidable additions to these growing classes. In the RS200 class National Champions…

At a Glance - Irish RS Dinghy 2024 Calendar

May 4th/5th:
RS200/400 Northerns EABC.

June 8th:
RS200/400 Easterns/Sprint Greystones SC - ideal way to hone in your starting before many Irish boats head to France for Eurocup 21-24 June

July 6/7th:
RS FEST/Inlands LDYC. RS Fest follows on from the success of last year to incorporate all RS Feva/200/400/Aeros.

August 9-11th:
RS200/400 Irish National Championships CSC.

September 20/21st:
RS 200/400 Southerns KSC. Killaloe SC hosts the final event of the year.

At a Glance - Irish RS400/200 Events for 2023 

  • RS Westerns Galway City Sailing Club - April 1/2
  • RS Open Training Strangford SC 29/30 April
  • Northerns - Strangford Sailing Club - May 6/7
  • Irish RS Games - Nationals - Blessington Sailing Club 23-25 June
  • UK Nationals Mounts Bay 31 July - 04 August 2023
  • Southerns/Easterns - 26/27 August- Wexford Harbour SC
  • Inlands - 23/24 September - Killaloe SC

RS Feva

  • Feva Easterns Royal Irish YC- May 6/7, RS Feva UK Nationals-Pwhelli, UK- May 27th-30th
  • Irish RS Games - Nationals - Blessington Sailing Club 23-25 June (open to all RS classes)
  • Feva Northerns - East Down YC - 26/27 Aug / Southerns - Monkstown BSC- 23/24 Sept

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