Royal Cork Yacht Club

This months calendar picture is the classic clubhouse view. We have some entertaining and informative extracts from the memoirs of it’s architect, his vision for club development from the late ’60s, and a little background to the first club amalgamation in the river….. (more…)

In one of the Royal Cork yearbooks there is an article about a yacht that has been in continuous use on Cork Harbour since 1936.  This led your WbW team to wonder if this is a record or whether others could lay claim to the title. So we went investigating… (more…)

Today we celebrate the club volunteer, without whom nothing would be possible. We have a lovely photo from Cork Week 1992, give details of how to volunteer for any of this year’s many events and take a irreverent view on what you might end up doing…. (more…)

The National 18s are the oldest active class in the Royal Cork and it is quite safe to say that the bulk of the credit for this fact must go to the Dwyer family. In this article Tommy Dwyer outlines the history, the people and the fun that has made the class so enduring.  (more…)

This post is a follow up on WbW#6 where Larrie Martin beautifully described his long career as an Oppie Parent. In it we unscientifically examine the changes to the way Junior Sailing is approached and try to illustrate with photographs from 2007 and some 40 years earlier. (more…)

Times have moved on but today is a good day to salute the committee members who helped celebrate the last anniversary and also to give all boat crews an important job to do! (more…)

The Royal Cork may well have the record for the longest continuous Oppie parent career in the world. A former Rear Admiral and Oppie parent of 17 consecutive seasons recalls his time with the fleet. (more…)

In WbW#4 we discovered the ladies bar that was behind the fireplace up to 1946. By coincidence we have a nice photograph from that year of a ladies race in dinghies with some nice connections to both the past and the present. (more…)

Ever-changing yet somehow very familiar. This is the dining room of 1970 which despite all the changes is instantly recognisable. (more…)

Members make any club and today’s photograph from 1971 is not just a snapshot of that time – it also illustrates nicely the inherent strength of the Royal Cork. (more…)

The Royal Cork and the One Designs – here club member and current Elsie owner Pat Dorgan outlines a brief history of the class and today’s state of play with each boat. (more…)

This year we celebrate the 300th anniversary of the foundation of the club in 1720. Much has been recorded and published about the clubs origins and illustrious past. This series looks at the club in the living memory of the current membership. (more…)