All Ireland Sailing Championships News and Results
Paris 2024 Olympic campaigner Finn Lynch has won the 'Champions' Cup' at Foynes Yacht Club and sailed this year in the 17-foot Mermaid class. Tricky light winds saw the schedule of races for the annual event cut short on the…
Can Ger Owens Make It Three-In-A-Row Defending National Overall Helm Title In Mermaids At Foynes This Weekend?
4th October 2023 All Irelands
It’s not the first time that the organisers of the National Championships of Champions have found themselves playing footsie with volatile Autumn weather. Ten days ago, the National Junior Championship at Schull was cancelled due to southerly gales. And last…
Ger Owens (Dun Laoghaire) & Mel Morris (East Antrim) are Sailors of the Month for October
1st November 2022 Sailor of the Month
So many factors came into play for the 75th Anniversary of the Champions’ Cup (aka the Helmsman’s Championship or the All-Ireland) in GP 14s at Sutton Dinghy Club on October 8th/9th that its weather-imposed compression into a one-day series made…
'Champion's Cup' Winner Ger Owens to Seek 'Three in a Row' as GP14s Celebrate at Sutton Dinghy Club
11th October 2022 All Irelands
The 2022 "Champion's Cup" took place at Sutton Dinghy Club over the weekend, marking the 75th anniversary of the event. Much has been written and spoken of what was formerly the Helmsman's Championship in the last few weeks, but for…
Royal St. George's Ger Owens Retains Title as GP14 Sailors Take Top Three Places in Champions' Cup at Sutton Dinghy Club
8th October 2022 All Irelands
Ireland's top GP14 dinghy sailors ruled the waves at the annual Helmsmans' Championships, rebranded as the Champions' Cup for this year's 75th edition, at Sutton Dinghy Club on Saturday. The defending title holder Ger Owens of the Royal St George…
No Shortage of GP14 Sailors in Action at Sutton Dinghy Club's Champions’ Cup
6th October 2022 All Irelands
There is no shortage of GP14 expertise in Sutton on Dublin Bay this weekend when the Helmsmans Championships, formerly the 'Champion of Champions' and 'All Ireland' Sailing Championships now to be known as the 'Champions' Cup' gets underway in the…
Can The Champions' Cup This Weekend Be Compressed Into A Single Day Of Racing?
6th October 2022 All Irelands
The Race Officer In The Armchair is as big a pain as the Hurler On The Ditch, particularly when either is operating in hindsight. And they're only slightly less of a pest when they're throwing in their tuppence-worth of advice…
Champions’ Cup at Sutton Will Continue 75-Year Golden Thread Of Helmsman’s Championship
17th September 2022 W M Nixon
The Helmsman’s Championship? Crazy name. Surely it should at least have been The Helmsmen’s Championship? Yet in its quirkiness, it achieved brand recognition to die for. Everyone knew what it meant, so much so it could even be shortened to…
Concern That All-Ireland Helmsman's Championship Is To Become The Champions Cup
24th August 2022 All Irelands
It has had three or four titles in its 74 years of existence. But until now, the Irish Championship of Champions, or whatever it's called, has been raced for the same original and increasingly battered Silver Salver, as presented by…
Owens & Killian Win Breezy All Ireland Sailing Championships at Royal Cork (Photo Gallery)
3rd October 2021 All Irelands
2004 Athens 470 Olympic partnership Ger Owens and Ross Killian teamed up again to win the 2021 All Ireland Sailing Championships in convincing style at Royal Cork Yacht Club this afternoon. After three wins put Owens, representing the GP14 class,…
Three Wins For GP14's Ger Owens as All Ireland Sailing Finalists 2021 Take Their Places at Royal Cork Yacht Club
2nd October 2021 National 18
Six sailors from a fleet of sixteen have secured their places in tomorrow's All Ireland Sailing Championships at Royal Cork Yacht Club and there have been some surprises on those filling the repechage ranks now looking for two remaining places…
The Weight of Sailing History in Ireland Hangs on the Golden Thread of the Helmsman's Championship
2nd October 2021 W M Nixon
We've been waiting a year to use this header photo which – owing to a certain confusion in the filing of thousands of photographic negs and images – has had to be scanned from the November 1970 issue of Irish…
National 18s Are Keen to Show off New 'Ultra' Boats at Royal Cork All Ireland Sailing Championships
30th September 2021 All Irelands
BYOW - Bring your own wireman, that's the call for this weekend's All Ireland sailing championships that puts a premium on a 90kg trapeze crew in the National 18s for what looks likely to be a breezy edition of the…
Big Breeze & Big Names for All Ireland Champs at Royal Cork Yacht Club in National 18s
29th September 2021 All Irelands
50mph winds forecast for Saturday morning's first gun may yet cause problems for the 2021 All Ireland Sailing Championships at Royal Cork Yacht Club in Crosshaven this weekend. Sixteen invitees from the fleets of cruisers, one-design keelboats and IRC cruisers…
Due to the ongoing COVID restrictions and the format of the event, Irish Sailing has cancelled its Senior All Ireland Sailing Championships. Planning continues however for the Junior All Ireland Sailing Championships taking place on 26 & 27th September at…
Michael O’Connor of Royal St George YC is “Sailor of the Month (Senior)” for October after emerging as the 73rd All-Ireland Champion Helm after a ding-dong two-day final raced in Flying Fifteens from the National Yacht Club on October 5th…
