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9 Mar: Six Nations at HYC

The Six Nations continues with round 4 on 9th/10th March Ireland look to make it 4 bonus p...

10 March: Mother's Day at HYC

Why not treat the undercover superhero (alias: Mam) in your life to a lunch in HYC on 10th Mar...

20 March: Movie Night - My Octopus Teachers

Movie nights are back. After the success of our 1st movie night we are back again nex...

27 March: Hope Beer tasting evening

Save the date for our Hope Beer tasting evening. Wednesday 27 March. Please...

31 March: Easter Sunday

If you've been chocolate-free for 40 days, this is the time to celebrate, no? Spend your E...

Penultimate Dinghy Frostbite Provides Exciting Racing

Chilly conditions and a building easterly breeze forecast set the scene for the penultimate Sunday of the post-Christmas series of the HYC Dinghy Frostbites that kicked off on 25th February.

Diary of a Brass Monkeys Sailor...

Hear from Peter McCabe, a seasoned sailor at Howth Yacht Club, as he shares his stories from the Bright Motor Group Brass Monkeys series on board Arcturus, where chilly mornings and spirited races…

A great year of community spirit: HYC celebrates club volunteers at the annual Wash-Up Supper

Dinghy frostbites revel in glorious sunshine and superb sailing conditions.

27 boats took to the water in glorious sunshine in the HYC Dinghy Frostbites, all eager to get a good day’s racing in and consolidate some leaderboard spots. Race officer Liam Dineen planned for 3…

Inaugural Irish Sailing League – Will you fly the HYC Flag?

Calling all HYC Sailors.

We're delighted to announce that Howth Yacht Club has been invited to participate in the first-ever Irish Sailing League event . This is a unique opportunity for our…

Dinghy Frostbites Back in Business After Storm Hiatus

After a 3 week break due to the storms, the HYC Dinghy Frostbites resumed regular service on Sunday 11th Feb.

With 3 weekends missed, the race organisers aimed to complete 3 races to get the…

Wave Regatta 2024: Ireland’s Premier Sailing Event Returns!

Hyc leverages eu funding to complete marina upgrade project.

We're pleased to share some recent improvements at Howth Yacht Club, made possible by a financial grant from the European Union’s Brexit Adjustment Reserve Fund, administered by An Bord Iascaigh…

Cruiser Racing Classes Celebrate at Annual Prizegiving Dinner

The Cruiser racing prize giving supper took place on Saturday evening with a full house of 90 people.

A delicious 3 course selection was served up by chef Marcel, Marius, and the fantastic…

HYC's Puppeteer 22 Class Celebrates 40 Year Milestone at Annual Prizegiving...

January 26th saw over 100 of the HYC Puppeteer 22 sailors assembling for the Annual Prizegiving Dinner in the Clubhouse.

The Dinner marked the start of the celebrations for the fleet’s 40th …

Squib Prizegiving Dinner goes off with a Bang

With increased participation, 3 new boat owners joining the HYC fleet and successes at the East Coast and Inland Championships, 2023 gave Squib sailors a lot to celebrate when 30 …

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Sailing champions to be decided in unique events that can produce an outright winner for the year

Junior and senior classes draw champions from all irish coasts plus inland waterways, but wicklow capable of winning both events.

Defending title holder Ger Owens from the Royal St George Yacht Club with the Irish Sailing Champions Cup in 2022. He will contest the 2023 event at Foynes next month. Photograph: David Branigan/Oceansport

Autumn season brings a conclusion to the main sailing season where dozens of championship events have been decided for 2023.

In a quirk of an already quirky sport in Ireland, overall champions will be decided in the coming weeks for junior and senior classes in unique events that roughly produce an outright winner for the year.

Both the junior and senior classes draw their champions from all coasts of Ireland plus inland waterways but Wicklow is possibly emerging as a front-runner for wins in both events.

As usual, the younger sailors will compete in Schull, west Cork using the locally built dedicated fleet of TR 3.6 team racing dinghies over two days this weekend.

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While the Royal St George Yacht Club (RSGYC) will have four sailors competing, several other clubs have two sailors competing, notably Blessington Sailing Club.

This Wicklow venue was the original place where Rio 2016 Olympian Finn Lynch first started sailing as the closest place to Carlow. Though he now declares for the National Yacht Club in Dún Laoghaire, he is never shy about acknowledging his roots there.

Defending title holder Ger Owens from the Royal St George Yacht Club with Melanie Morris while competing in the 2022 Irish Sailing Champions Cup. File photograph: David Branigan/Oceansport

Lynch has been nominated to the senior event that will be sailed at Foynes Sailing Club next month.

At the Limerick venue, Lynch will face off triple Olympian Ger Owens, the defending champion from 2022 when he added his name for the third time to the famous silver salver, a feat only previously accomplished by a handful of people.

While many of the sailing household names on the trophy appear twice, Mark Lyttle and Tom Fitzpatrick are the others to appear three times with Nicholas O’Leary the only person to achieve a hat-trick of consecutive wins.

Owens, meanwhile, has changed his long-term allegiance from the RSGYC in Dún Laoghaire to Wicklow Sailing Club and on paper at least, the outcome of a battle between these two front-runners could link the garden county to overall victory.

Except that another quirk of this event comes into play as each year the senior event switches to a different host class.

This year’s event will be sailed in the historic Dublin Bay Mermaid class, a 91-year-old John B Kearney design that races with a crew of three.

A committed Ger Owens competes for the 2022 Irish Sailing Champions Cup. File photograph: David Branigan/Oceansport

Much will come down to boat-handling so Jim Carthy of Rush Sailing Club, the host nomination for the event will surely have an added edge.

Other surprise finalists could be drawn from the team-racing champions in the 18-strong list of finalists such as Trinity’s Helen O’Beirne who won the Colours team racing event or Baltimore Sailing Club’s Johnny Durcan who captained the winning University team racing championship.

ILCA7 national champion Jamie McMahon will be competing raising the prospect of Lynch facing an up-and-coming contender and possible rival in a boat with which neither of them will be familiar.

Meanwhile, this weekend’s junior champions cup can look forward to breezy conditions in the sheltered waters of Schull Harbour.

Irish Sailing Champions Cup 2023 (Senior) at Foynes Sailing Club, October 7th–8th

Helm club class nomination basis:.

Ger Owens Wicklow Sailing Club GP14 2022 Champion.

Paul McMahon Howth Yacht Club RS Aero first place at Class National Championships.

Johnny Durcan Baltimore Sailing Club Team Racing Captain of winning team at IUSA Team Racing Championship 2023.

Dave Bailey Bray Sailing Club J24 first place helm at Class National Championships.

Ross Kearney Royal North of Ireland Yacht Club GP14 3rd place at Class National Championships (first place is the 2022 returning Champions’ Cup Champion, second place is also the Squib Class National Champion).

Frank Guy Lough Derg Yacht Club Shannon One Design first place at Class National Championships.

Ross McDonald Howth Yacht Club 1720 first place at Class National Championships.

Fiachra Mc Donnell Royal St. George Yacht Club ILCA 6 second place at Class National Championships.

Andy Verso Greystones Sailing Club Rs400 first place at Class National Championships.

Jamie McMahon Howth Yacht Club ILCA 7 first place at Class National Championships.

Neil Spain Howth Yacht Club ICRA Overall ICRA National Championships Winner.

Niall O’ Brien Flying Fifteens Chonamara Flying Fifteen first place at Class National Championships.

Ruan O’Tiarnaigh Sutton Dinghy Club Squib second place at Class National Championships.

Jim Carthy Rush Sailing Club Mermaid Host Class nominee.

Helen O’Beirne Trinity Sailing Club Team Racing Female Helm, third place at the IUSA. Nationals out of 24 teams and Captain of the Women’s team who won Colours Team Racing Event.

Monica Schaefer Greystones Sailing Club Wayfarer Female Helm, first place at Class National Championships out of seven boats.

Cillian Dickson Lough Ree Yacht Club J24 President’s Choice, winning helm at J24 Europeans and 4th at World Championships.

Finn Lynch National Yacht Club ILCA 7 President’s Choice, for qualifying Ireland for a place at the 2024 Olympics Games in ILCA 7 class.

Irish Sailing Champions Cup 2023 (Junior) at Fastnet Marine & Outdoor Education Centre, September 23rd–24th.

Nominees Name Nominees Club Class Nomination basis:

Tom Driscoll Ballyholme Yacht Club Topper first place at National Championships.

Emily Macafee Ballyholme Yacht Club Topper first place female at National Championships.

Cora Mcnaughton Blessington Sailing Club Intl 420 first place at National Championships.

David Evans Sligo Yacht Club Mirror Highest placed IRL junior at National Championships.

Harry Dunne Howth Yacht Club Optimist first place at National Championships.

Gemma Brady National Yacht Club Optimist second place at National Championships.

Max O’Hare Royal St George Yacht Club Optimist third place at National Championships.

Maximus Cully Blessington Sailing Club GP14 1st U19 at Junior National Championships.

Russell Bolger Royal St George Yacht Club Team Racing Captain of the winning team at the ISTRA Championships 2023.

Ben O’Shaughnessy Royal Cork Yacht Club 29er first place at National Championships.

Lucy Ives Carlingford Sailing Club ILCA 4 first place at National Championships.

Tom Coulter Portrush Yacht Club ILCA 6 first place at National Championships.

Megan O Sullivan Royal Cork Yacht Club ILCA 4 Female Wildcard — 4th overall at National Championships, second female out of 31 IRL boats.

Lily Donagh Royal St George Yacht Club Optimist Female Wildcard — 5th Place at National Championships out of 111 IRL boats.

Lucia Cullen Royal St George Yacht Club 29er President’s Choice — first female European Champion 2023, fourth female Worlds 2023.

Sienna Wright Howth Yacht Club ILCA 6 President’s Choice — seventh overall at National Championships, and first lady in ILCA 6. Silver at U17 Youth Worlds.

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One must be a due-paying club member to have free access here; however, a friend of a friend 'hosted' me and I wandered around freely in this really nice yacht club in a gorgeous location. The club has a vast comfortable bar and lounge space with two dining areas for guests to spill into, as well as large windows with beautiful views of the harbor. There are three levels which include some private dining/function spaces and a couple decks for enjoying a bevvie in the sunshine or simply to take in the wild seaside. If you're a sailor, a membership might be worth a consideration. I stuck around to see the crews return and enjoy a 'sailing supper' which smelled mighty good! Ahoy the shore!

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