Schull Harbour sailing Club have announced a major programme change to the 2012 Calves Week festival of sailing. Responding to representations from  competitors for a shorter and less expensive alternative to the traditional event, spanning a two week period, the Schull based sailing programme will consist of a four day Calves Week Championships, running from Tuesday 7th to Friday 10th of August, with the usual mix of courses taking in the Fastnet Rock and many of Carberys Hundred Isles, together with laid courses in Roaringwater bay. Daily prizegiving will take place on Main Street Schull where a nautical festival theme for the village is being organised by local businesses. The [...]

During the O’Flynn Exhams Solicitors Autumn Regatta 2011 Brian Carlin of Cube Images produced a short film of Conor Phelan’s Ker 37 Jump Juice. This short film is one of 19 nominated at this year’s Wee Film Festival. The festival will be held in Vicar St, Dublin and tickets are available at ticketmaster. For more information see www.waff.ie See Video by Clicking inside….

Our well known ex pat sailor of Royal Cork Yacht Club  and Vice Commodore of the RORC,  Hong Kong based Jamie McWilliam of the well known McWilliam sail making family, has acquired a new build Ker 40 from the McConaghy Yard.  Naturally she will carry a full suit of U. K. Halsey sails now that Uncle Des (McWilliam) is the recently appointed World President of the Company. Conversing on line with Jamie and enquiring as to his plans for this super boat he indicated he would very much like to be with us for Cork Week 2012 but cautioned, and I quote “bear in mind our appearance at Cork Week [...]

Congratulations to Sophie Brown of Tralee Bay SC and Royal Cork YC who has been awarded  Sailor of the Month title for January. See story here

The Royal Cork will host the North U “Strategies for Racing Success” Seminar with speaker Bill Gladstone next Thursday 2nd February from 7 – 11pm. Tuition €20.

The O’Leary/Burrows pairing finished 5th overall in the Rolex US Sailing OCR at Biscayne Bay Miami today. In the light wind Medal Race they finished 4th to give them  nine  finishes in the top ten out of the eleven race series.  This included two seconds, three thirds and  fourth in the Medal Race and  achieving all this in what was believed to be a borrowed boat, giving them some performance indeed. Robert Scheidt and Bruno Prada of Brazil won the series followed by Xavier Rohart and Pierre  Alexis Ponsot of France and Elvind Melleby and Petter Pedersen of Norway second and third respectively. Sweden’s Frederik Loof and Max Salminen  took [...]