Next Wednesday the 25th November at 8pm there will be a “Match Racing Tips and Tricks” talk given by John Sheehy in conjunction with the National Yacht Club U30’s Section.

John is a highly experienced Match and Team Racer with many years of experience and several Irish Match Racing Championship wins.
The talk aims to cover interesting Match Racing situations, rules, video analysis and answer questions people may have, in order to give further information about Match Racing ahead of the series that will be run next season in the National Yacht Club.

This talk is open to anyone with an interest in learning more about Match Racing. Please log onto the zoom below on Wednesday the 25th of November to take part!

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Join DBSC on Thursday 12 November at 19.30hrs at a virtual event to highlight their partnership with AIB (see booking link below)

Fergal Keane, RTÉ to host live chat with top professional sailors
- Tom Dolan
- Annalise Murphy
- Damian Foxall
- Dr. Kate Kirby (top sports psychologist)

Sports psychology has traditionally been viewed as only having application to high performance or professional sports.  However, many of the techniques in sport psychology have just as much relevance for recreational athletes and also can be applied to our personal and professional lives.  We will hear from these professional sailors about their approach to sport psychology and how resilience forms an essential part of this.

For more information on sailors’ profiles, please click here                                                                

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Free event, recorded

To answer the many queries that members may have regarding what is allowed to take place in the Club under Covid Level 5 restrictions, please download this pdf document and nearly more importantly read the FAQs from Irish Sailing here:

https://www.sailing.ie/Coronavirus/faq 

Dun Laoghaire Harbour's combined waterfront yachts clubs have announced the continued title sponsorship by Volvo Car Ireland of next July's Dun Laoghaire Regatta and a new format for Ireland's top sailing event.

In order to facilitate social distancing and be Covid-19 compliant a new regatta format will comprise a One Design Championship (2nd – 4th July 2021) specifically tailored for sailors in the one-design keelboat and dinghy classes. This to be followed by an Open Cruiser Championship (8th – 11th July 2021) catering for the full range of Cruiser Handicap classes.

'The sponsorship announcement coupled with the significant format changes to VDLR 2021, will give sailors, sponsors, classes and the four waterfront clubs certainty in planning ahead for the 2021 season', says chairman of the organisers, Don O'Dowd.

Months of lockdown had sailors straining at the sheets to get out on the water. Theory
training delivered on zoom by Seán Donnelly and Adam Hyland upskilled NYC WoW sailors
on tactics as we sat at home. Social distancing meant that single-handers were now the only
option, so in late May Rosemary Cadogan O’Connell and Clodagh O’Connor formed the NYC
WoW Laser Group. Boats were retrieved from gardens and garages, and those who didn’t
own one scoured the buy and sell pages for Radials and 4.7s. Bidding wars were won on
whatsapp. The number of Lasers looking for platform parking jumped from 18 in 2019 to an
incredible 39 in 2020. The NYC welcomed 4 RS Aeros for the first time. Olivier Prouveur bent
the rules of Newtonian physics to accommodate them all.

Annalise held her lead over the 41-boat fleet to claim the Laser Radial open class title in the final racing of Italian Olympic Week at Follonica.

This result is a significant boost for Annalise's delayed Laser Radial campaign, although many of her key rivals for Tokyo 2020 gold next year did not contest the Italian championships. Next up are the European Championships in Gdansk just under two weeks time.

CONGRATULATIONS TO TOM!

NYC Country Member Tom Dolan finished a truly remarkable 5th Overall in France's 51th Solitaire offshore championship on his Figaro £ boat 'Smurfit Kappa'.

Tom received the VIVI Trophy for the best racer from outside of France.

It is the best international overall placing in the historic French multi stage offshore race series since 1997 when Switzerland’s Dominique Wavre placed second, and a remarkable result considering it is just Dolan’s third challenge and last year he was 33^rd.

“ I am delighted to see Tom win and delighted to see that in just the second year since the trophy was donated it really has become established as something that the sailors want to fight for and at the same time they are now getting some well-deserved recognition. ” Said Marcus Hutchinson, who with his wife Megan, donated the trophy last year.

“ And I am pleased to see it go to a fellow Irishman in Tom and he wins if not for being tenth or twelfth but for a great fifth place. He has been consistent this year and that is what La Solitaire is all about. This race so challenging and so complicated and he has worked hard. And it is nice, in a way, that he does not come from Dublin or Cork or one of the Irish sailing centres, his success says anyone can come and do this if they have the will and the determination, anything is possible. Tom has shown that. ”

Read more about La Solitaire 2020 on Afloat.ie