Having put down a breezy 2017 season, a long hard winter and then a tough Trials, the weather finally became seasonal for the first regional event of 2018. 25 boats made the journey to Malahide, where MYC hosted the Ulsters on the fabulous Broadmeadows estuary. Saturday’s 10-12 knots and warm sunshine meant the PRO got […]
Club member Katie Tingle has joined Annalise Murphy in a bid to qualify for the Toyko 2020 Olympics in the 49erFX skiff class. Katie has huge dinghy experience and has won the Irish Optimist Championships and is an experienced 420 sailor. Olympic Silver Medalist Annalise has quit the Laser Radial dinghy to launch this […]
Twenty five Young People arrived at the RCYC on Saturday morning for the latest try sailing day. The winds were kind to us and the new sailors all had a great time. Thanks to all the volunteers who helped out and thanks also to James Young for another great video of the day. See it […]
As ever, Trials 2018 provided excitement, disappointment, thrills, spills, and no end of drama – there’s probably a movie in it somewhere. PRO John Leech and his team did an amazing job in the face of some very adverse forecasts – from too much breeze to virtually none. Thursday saw the three scheduled races completed, […]
Some sailors think there is a “season” for sailing – but not our hardy Optimists. Our trials group sailed their last session of 2017 on 9/10 December, and had a few weeks off before the turkey and ham. Immediately after Santa, early on the morning of the 27th December, a group of 6 joined hordes […]
