Irish Sigma 33 Cruiser Sailing & Regatta Results

Sigma 33s Hopeful of the Magic 15 at Bangor Town Regatta's Irish Championships
24th February 2022 Sigma
In this post lockdown era, there are so many events on offer that sailors keen to compete in the big competitions are spoilt for choice, and this has never been so true as with the Sigma 33 class this season.…

Howth Yacht Club's Beshoff Motors Autumn League Completes Its 2021 Package
19th October 2021 Howth YC
When the Autumn League started as a regular part of the programme at Howth Yacht Club thirty-nine years ago after the Marina opened in July 1982 (making for two significant anniversaries coming up next year), it was thought fairly normal…

What started off as a challenge in Royal North of Ireland Yacht Club on Belfast Lough by Gordon Patterson's Sigma 362, Fanciulla, a heavy 36-footer, to Gavin Vaughan's new Jeanneau 349, a 34-foot light displacement boat, in a race to…

So much happened so quickly in Galway Bay SC’s 46-boat Lambs Week cruise to the Aran islands and Connemara (as reported in Afloat.ie) that it took a day or two for a more formal presentation to take place with the…

Howth Yacht Club's 'Insider' Wins Sigma 33 National Title at the Royal Irish Yacht Club
16th August 2021 Sigma
Howth Yacht Club's 'Insider' co-skippered by Stephen Mullaney and Ian Martin topped the nine boat fleet to win the 2021 Sigma 33 Irish Championships at the Royal Irish Yacht Club in Dun Laoghaire Harbour. The HYC crew beat former class champion Squawk skippered by Paul Prentice of Ballyholme…

Howth Yacht Club's 'Insider' Leads at the Sigma 33 National Championships at the Royal Irish Yacht Club
15th August 2021 Sigma
Visitors occupy the top three places overall after three races sailed at the 2021 Sigma 33 Irish Championships at the Royal Irish Yacht Club in Dun Laoghaire Harbour. Howth Yacht Club's 'Insider' co-skippered by Stephen Mullaney and Ian Martin leads the…

Dublin Bay Sailor David FitzPatrick Joins Clipper Round the World Race for Demanding Stage South of Australia
23rd December 2019 Clipper Race
Round the World Clipper Race contender Visit Sanya China will be in catch-up mode when she starts the Australian coastal stage (leg 4) on Christmas Day from Fremantle on the west coast to the Whitsundays on the northeast Great Barrier…

Scribbler, my Sigma 33 yacht, was hauled ashore this week. Now she stands in her cradle in Castlepoint Boatyard in Crosshaven in Cork Harbour for her out-of-the-water winter rest. It is the annual end-of-season ritual. There are owners who don’t…

Scotland's Leaky Roof 2 sailed by Alan Harper/Robertson, Eric Robertson & Kirsty Robertson from Cove Sailing Club were winners of the Sigma 33 Irish Open Championships sailed as part of Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta 2019. In fact, Scottish visitors took the top three…

Scottish Crews in Top Three at Sigma 33 Nationals at Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta
12th July 2019 Volvo Regatta
Scottish crews are in command at the 20-boat Sigma 33 Irish National Championships hosted as part of Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta. After four races sailed and one discard, James Miller's Mayrise of Helensburgh Sailing Club leads Leaky Roof 2 (Alan Harper/Robertson, Eric Robertson &…

Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta 2019 Launches With Bumper Fleet of Visiting Yachts
4th April 2019 Dun Laoghaire Harbour News
With three months to go to the first gun off Dun Laoghaire’s famous harbour, 410 boats are already entered — and more than half the entries are visiting craft to Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta 2019. It is an early-season marine…

This year the Sigma 33 class is celebrating the launch of the first boat forty years ago. With 408 boats built between then and 1991, the boats proved a great success, not only for builders Marine Projects in Plymouth but also…

It looks to be all good news for the Sigma 33 class in 2019 with another strong entry of 16 boats entered to date for next July's Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta, over six months before the event. It promises to…

Dermot Clarke and Patrick Maguire's Sigma 33 Gwilli Two of the Royal St. George Yacht Club was the winner of Dublin Bay Sailing Club's Cruiser 2 Coastal Race to Greystones Harbour in County Wicklow yesterday by the narrowest of margins. After…

Scottish Visitors Dominate Sigma 33 Championships at Royal St. George Yacht Club
24th June 2018 Sigma
Scottish visitors dominated a ten race series to take all three places on the podium of the Sigma 33 Class UK and Irish Championships 2018 on Dublin Bay this weekend. The Royal St. George Yacht Club event attracted 23 entries, some 161 competitors from five countries.…

Scottish visitor Leaky Roof II skippered by Alan Harper of Cove Sailing Club leads the Sigma 33 Class and Irish Championship 2018 after eight races sailed at the Royal St. George Yacht Club in Dun Laoghaire. Visiting boats continue to dominate the overall…