Exhilarating, challenging, breezy, competitive!

The Irish Flying Fifteen fleet had their last provincial event, the South Coast Championships, last weekend before the Subaru sponsored World Championships are hosted by the National Yacht Club at the end of this month. This time the host was the near neighbours of the NYC, the Royal St George Yacht Club and there was some debate as to whether the RStGYC had ever hosted a Flying Fifteen event before. From early in the week before there was speculation as to what might happen on the Saturday as there was such an adverse forecast and in other regatta reports on the Y&Y website, the sense that not much would happen was replicated. By Friday evening the forecast had moderated slightly but winds of mid-twenties gusting to over thirty were still showing up on the XCWeather chart and other web-based forecasts weren’t any more optimistic.

After members fundraising and a "Sports Capital" grant your club has acquired six Firefly dinghies to introduce team racing in the club. The NYC was to the fore in Team Racing many years ago, see the brass IYA medals on the wall in dining room by the fireplace.

The six boats, 3 blue and 3 orange will provide access for members for team racing, watch this space for information on our team racing programme.

Interested in taking part in the irish Sailing Pathfinder Women at the Helm Regatta on 17th & 18th August but you don't have a boat?

The NYC has 3 RS Ventures and 4 Wayfarers to charter (€70 for the event for members)

If interested, please complete the form here

Following a very successful four-day regatta last weekend , five NYC boats finished at the top of their fleets. Vincent Farrell and team won the Coastal Echo, John and Neil Masterson won the Shipman class, Neil O’Toole won the Moth Class. The Ruffian Alias co owned by Commodore Martin McCarthy won the Ruffian title and David Gorman and Chris Doorly won the Flying Fifteen class. In addition, the pair were presented with the Dubarry Boot as winners of the Boat of the week. 498 Boats took part in the regatta with over 2,500 sailors participating.

Picture: Don O’Dowd event chairman, Chris Doorly, David Gorman, Martin McCarthy.

The Club has entered 3 of its Club Wayfarers to race in Dublin Bay on Tuesday evenings.
Registrations are now open for the last series of 7 Tuesday evenings.

For further details, please contact Rosemary Cadogan O'Connell via sailing@nyc.ie

Register here