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John Lavery and Alan Green Defend Their Irish Flying Fifteen Title
John Lavery and Alan Green of the National Yacht Club successfully defended their Irish Flying Fifteen title in a light air contest at Strangford Lough Yacht Club.John & Alan, sailing Phoenix, retained their 2020 title by a huge margin...
Sell your Sailing Gear
Dear members, we are hosting a âsell your sailing gearâ event on Sunday the 26th September from 2pm to 3pm under the balcony at the National Yacht Club. The idea is to come along with the sailing items you no longer use or you have grown out of with a price attached and sell it to other members. There will be tables and some hanging rails to display your items. If you want to donate clothes etc to the RNLI there will be a clothes bucket for these items. We are looking forward to seeing you all then.
WOW committee
Junior sailing committee
TY Programme Presentation
The Tri-Club TY Information Presentation and Pizza evening will be held 6:30pm , Wednesday 8th Sept, at RIYC, outdoors, tickets for half a Pizza ( Margherita or Pepperoni ) and a drink will cost âŹ10 and can be purchased on arrival.
We will aim to serve food at 7:30pm and hope the TYers will get a chance to meet. Weâll look forward to seeing as many of you and your son/ daughters as possible. It has been decided not to communicate with the students via WhatsApp so all communications will go to parents via WhatsApp, email or your club website.
Regards. Sarah Spain. NYC TY Coordinator
Optimist National Championships 2021 – NYC Report
Lough Derg Yacht Club hosted the 2021 Optimist National Championships over 4 days from August 18th â 22nd, and the event, though scaled back due to COVID 19 restrictions saw 134 sailors compete across 3 fleets. Light winds prevailed and in true Irish weather there were gusts, squalls - all the conditions to test the sailors.
Despite the limited training opportunities over the past 18 months, the standard of sailing was high and an energetic and competitive spirit prevailed. Main fleet sailors sailed 11 races over the 4 days, with 2 discards, and the regatta fleet sailed 7, with one discard.
The 2021 Optimist National Champion is 13 year old Caoilinn Geraghty-McDonnell, RStGYC who won the Junior National Championship in 2020, congratulations Caoilinn, and the 2021 Junior National Champion is Andrew OâNeill, RCYC. 10 year old Patrick Fagan from Malahide Yacht Club took first prize in the Regatta Fleet.
The National Yacht Club was represented by Ava Ennis in the senior main fleet, who despite a 2nd, two 4th places and a 5th finished 9th overall, and Theo Madigan. There were 4 NYC competitors In the junior main fleet, James Gorman, Jamie Kirrane, Jonathan Dempsey, and Louise Hanley who won 1st place in race 4, and finished 12th overall â a great performance for only her 2nd event, well done Louise.
Regatta fleet was represented by Max Neary in 8th, Louis Tricket and Amelia Chapman.
ICRA Nationals 2021
The NYC is delighted to host the ICRA Nationals 2021 from Friday 3rd to Sunday 5th September. Below are essential links: Download the Sailing Instructions: ICRA Nats_2021_SIs_FINAL List of entries: CLICK HERE Results: - - - - - Virtual Race Office: - Official...
Members End of Season Race
NYC Membersâ End-of-Summer Charity Race, Thursday 9th September
We have a busy weekend coming up for the club hosting the ICRA National Championships this week from Friday to Sunday, with visiting boats arriving to our pontoon on Thursday.
Preparations are underway with Race Officer Larry Power to hold our annual End-of-Summer Season Charity Race next week on Thursday 9th September. The start will at the DBSC Hut on the West Pier, and signals will commence at 18:00 to allow for the shorter evening. Further details will be posted later.
It will be a welcome return for this event after missing out last year due to the Covid-related late start to the 2020 racing season. That in turn lead to the DBSC midweek series running until September 10th, and then there was an abrupt end to racing the following week when Covid-restrictions were re-imposed by the government.
Topper National Championships – NYC Report
This yearâs Irish Topper National Championships was hosted by Carrickfergus Sailing Club on the north shore of Belfast Lough from Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd of August. The 56 competitors across the 2 fleets battled in challenging conditions from very little wind to a gusty 18 knot breeze, persistent rain, and a choppy sea. Daniel Palmer from Ballyholme sailed consistently well over the 9-race series taking the overall title. Flying the flag for NYC was Ella Fitzgerald who had mixed fortunes, having led the first race from the start completely ran out of wind within touching distance of the line dropping back 6 places. Gear failure brought the second race to a premature end, but a series of top 10 finishes secured her the overall prize for 2nd youth girl.