Connachts conclude in Cork
The Connacht Championships concluded on Sunday afternoon in Crosshaven after two days of racing in the East of Cork Harbour. Sixty nine lasers across three fleets competed in the Championships with 4.7’s the largest fleet. Thirty one club sailors competed at the event. The forecast did result in a few sailors opting to race in […]
Royal Cork sailors revel in tough conditions at HYC
Well, the pleasant summery conditions from our first Regional of 2018 didn’t last long. The fleet well and truly took a hammering off Howth for the Leinsters, with 20-25kts and a very nasty chop for most of the weekend. However, conditions seemed to suit the Royal Cork sailors – taking Senior Fleet, Junior Fleet and […]
Club Dinghy’s race for Miss Betty and Dognose Trophies next weekend (23rd June)
The Dognose and Miss Betty Trophy races will be run jointly on Saturday 23rd of June. The Dognose Trophy is open to monohull dinghies with a PY number of 1142 (Laser Radial) or less – Class 1. The Miss Betty Trophy is open to dinghies with a PY higher than 1142 – Class 2. First […]
Connachts in Cork!
After hosting a very successful Irish National Championships for the Laser Association last August the Club are delighted to be hosting the Connacht Championships this weekend. Currently we have 65 entries from over 30 clubs around the country across three fleets – 4.7’s, Radial and Standards, it looks like it is going to be a […]
Royal Cork Boat Claims the J24 National Title 2018
The J24 Nationals were on in Foynes over the weekend and the Club had four boat competing at the event, two senior and two junior team made the trip to Foynes Yacht Club. This was the first event for our new under 25 academy teams lead by James McCann and Cian Jone, they performed really […]
June Pop Up Keelboat Race.
Last Saturday was the first of the Keelboat Pop up races for 2018, the idea was to start at 1800 and round as many marks as possible in 1hr and 30mins, for every minute each competitor was late back across the finish line, they would have one mark deducted from their total, the final total […]
NOR June Saturday pop-up novelty race
Continuing from last year two pop-up races are planned for June. Both will be unusual format. June 9th – Round the Cans Dash. FG at 17.55 Round as many cans as you can in 1 hour 30 minutes. Any mark only once but in any order and any direction. Navigation skills will be […]
Club Echo changes for June
The committee looked at the results of the May Thursday night leagues and have made some adjustments to the handicaps based on the results. 25 boats raced at least 1 of the Thursdays in May but not many boats did 4 out of 5 races. To offset we applied two discards and recalculated the results. […]
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