Sunday April 17th saw the first optimist competitive event of their season at RCYC, with the holding of the TCI / Curradinghy Trophy which was run on the bank. 18 Sailors in 6 teams of 3 ran off 15 races which was curtailed due to a lack of wind. All the teams were evenly matched […]
The 2016 Trials for the Optimist class took place last weekend alongside the Youth National Championships, kindly hosted by Howth Yacht Club. This 4 day event ran from Thursday to Sunday unfortunately losing the Friday racing due to strong winds. RCYC had 19 sailors present and all sailed their socks off across a mixture of […]
It’s that time of the year again. On Thursday this week for four days, 19 of our Optimist Dinghy sailors are competing at Trials, run out of Howth Yacht Club. This is a closed event which the sailors have qualified for by competing in regional and last years national championships. Those who do very well, […]
On last weekend 5th/ 6th March, 13 of our sailors went to compete in the above. It was a very well run event hosted by Cardiff Bay Yacht Club with the sailing area right outside their modern clubhouse which, for the parents, made for comfortable viewing at least on the Saturday as the weather […]
Last weekend was a successful return to the water for the RCYC Oppie fleet. There were 2 fleets with 20 sailors out training, they included our trials sailors as well as 8 up and coming sailors who trained on Sunday taking advantage of the good weather. Mark Ring was busy bringing some parents up to speed assessing […]
