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Schools Prepare for 2013 Leinster Team Racing at the Royal St. George Yacht Club
#teamracing – Schools from across Leinster will sail for the province's Schools Team Racing Championship title in March at the Royal St.George Yacht Club in Dun Laoghaire. The Leinster Schools Team Racing Championship 2013, for three boat teams, will take…
Dun Laoghaire's Royal St. George Yacht Club Wins Millennium Bowl
#rsgyc – An Irish team racing team has emerged as winners of the triangular team racing event between the Royal Thames Yacht Club, the Royal Northern & Clyde Yacht Club and Dun Laoghaire's RStGYC. The event  was held on Queen…
ISAF Team Racing Worlds 2013 Setback Does not Discourage Irish Fans
#teamracing – Despite the news from the Dun Laoghaire ISAF conference last week that there will be no ISAF Team Racing Worlds in 2013, team racing in Ireland is still thriving, this country having hosted the last worlds in Schull…
Schull to Stage Team Racing National Championships
#teamracing – Fresh from the success of the Junior All Ireland's at the weekend the Irish Team Racing National Championships are next up in Schull, West Cork on 10th and 11th November. Organised by the Fastnet Marine and Outdoor Education…
Entries Open for First 2K Team Racing Euros Next Month
#TEAM RACING - The inaugural EUROSAF Team Racing European 2 Keelboat Championships will be sailed at Lelystad in the Netherlands on 21-23 September. Entries are invited from teams of six sailors (only four of one gender) with no weight limit.…
West Cork Team Racers Win Under 21 Wilson Trophy
#WILSON TROPHY – West Cork's Schull Youth Team lifted the Under 21 trophy at the Wilson trophy at West Kirby in the UK this afternoon Schull, one of three Irish team competing, finished the event half way down the leaderboard…
Irish Teams Agree with Decision to Scrub First Day of Wilson Trophy
#WILSON TROPHY – Were the Wilson Trophy a speed sailing event, then today would have been perfect with sunshine and 20+ knot winds this afternoon . Unfortunately with the wind gusting up to 36 knots in the morning, racing was…
Irish Sailors in the Hunt for British Team Racing Trophy
#TEAM RACING – West Kirby Sailing Club's Wilson Trophy fires up at 1300 tomorrow, Friday 11th May, with 30 teams competing for the British Open Team Racing Championship title. The event is set to be a windy one, the forecast…
Howth and Royal St. George Line-up for Wilson Trophy
#TEAM RACING – Ireland is fielding two of the 32 teams at one of international team racing's most historic competitions, the Wilson Trophy, which sets sail on Friday 11th May. The three day event is hosted by West Kirby Sailing…
Locals Make a Clean Sweep in Irish Schools Team Racing Championships
#TEAM RACING – Hosts Schull made a clean sweep of the prizes at a breezy edition of the Irish Schools Team Racing Championships 2012 sailed in West Cork last weekend  (21st/22nd April) with 12 teams from Munster, Leinster and Connaught…
UCD Third in British Sailing Championships
TEAM RACING – UCD Sailing team travelled to the home of British Team Racing in West Kirby last weekend and came home with one of Ireland's best ever results, a third overall at the British University Sailing Championships. At the…
Gonzaga College Win Leinster School Sailing Championships
Dublin's Gonzaga College beat Rathdown School to win the Lenister Schools Team Racing Championships after a thrilling 45 rounds of competition. Third overall were Kilkenny College from an entry of ten schools. The inaugural event was run in fair weather…
Local Favourites Relegated in 'George Invitational' Team Race Event
#TEAM RACING – The Royal St. George Yacht Club Team Racing Invitational was once Ireland's most prestigious team racing event. After a lapse of a few years, the club hosted a revived "George Invitational" on Saturday March 10th. One tradition…
'2k' Format Will be New Lease of Life for Team Racing
Irish team racers, and those whose college sailing days are behind them, can look forward to rediscovering the joys of a new kind of team racing writes our Correspondent, Magheramore. The Dutch have discovered team racing. They have become very…
20 Teams Contest Irish Team Racing Championships
#TEAM RACE – The Irish Team Racing Nationals will be sailed this weekend in Dun Laoghaire. The event is based at the Royal St George Yacht Club. 20 teams have entered, with 6 teams travelling from the UK. 7 Irish…
West Kirby Team on Top at Schull ISAF Worlds
At the end of racing on day two of the Sailing World Team Racing Championships in Schull Harbour top ranked British team West Kirby Hawks finished first in the pecking order. In an exciting head to head they smashed the…

THE IRISH TEAM RACING ASSOCIATION CALENDAR 2024

  • Take the Helm, Malahide Sailing Club, April 13th & 14th
  • Royal St George Invitational, RStGYC, May 25th & 26th
  • Mixed Pairs Team Racing Event, Galway, June 22nd & 23rd
  • Take the Helm 2, Venue TBC, September 21st & 22nd (Provisional)
  • 2K Keelboat Team Racing, Dun Laoighaire, September 28th & 29th
  • ITRA National Championships, Baltimore, October 18th-20th

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