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Sovereign's Cup Sailing. News and Results from the Kinsale YC Event
Top Yacht 'Jelly Baby' Starts Kinsale ICRA Nationals In Winning Form
#sovscup – No surprises that form boat Jelly Baby leads division one of the 2015 ICRA Nationals in Kinsale Yacht Club tonight writes Claire Bateman. No surprise either that another Irish UK champion this season is also in the frame after…
88 Yachts Confirmed For ICRA Nationals At Kinsale
#cruiserracing – The south coast's biggest sailing event of the year was launched today on board the Irish Naval vessel LE Eithne by Simon Coveney TD, Minister for the Marine. The ICRA cruiser-racer National Championships event is to be hosted…
Olympian O'Leary Lifts Kinsale's 2013 Sovereign's Cup
#sovscup – The final day of the 2013 Covestone Asset Management Sovereign's Cup enjoyed Caribbean-like conditions of 14-16 knots of wind, flat seas and blazing sunshine, to conclude a week of magnificent sailing in Kinsale Harbour.Day four photos here At the…
Sovereign's Cup Day 4 (Sat) Photos
#sovscup –Sovereign's Cup final day and the best wine was kept till last! All in all the Sovereign's Regatta turned out to be a great event weather writes writes Claire Bateman. Scroll down the page for more on the water…
Sovereign's Cup (Friday) Day 3 Photos
#sovscup –This morning dawned bright enough but a little bit cloudy at times and there was a smell of wind around writes Claire Bateman. Sure enough, when the yachts poked their noses outside the mouth of the harbour the wind…
Photo Action from Sovereign's Cup 2013 at Kinsale Yacht Club
#sovscup –Scroll down the page for images from today's day two, the halfway stage, of the Sovereign's Cup at Kinsale Yacht Club shot by Afloat's Bob Bateman.   The Sovereign's Cup was established in 1995 and this year marks the…
Sovereign's Cup Day 2 – Keronimo Surfs into the Lead
#sovscup – RCYC's O'Leary clan continued to carve their way to the top of the 1720 European Championships table with six of the scheduled races completed. Nicholas, onboard T-Bone enjoyed a second and two bullets in today's racing held as…
Kinsale Paralympian Scores in First Day of Sovereign's Cup
#sovs cup – Local Paralympian, John Twomey laid down a marker after the first day of racing at the Sovereign's Cup in Kinsale, County Cork yesterday. The ten times paralympian is in training for the IFDS world disabled sailing championship…
Kinsale Paralympian Scores in First Day of Sovereign's Cup
#sovs cup – Local Paralympian, John Twomey laid down a marker after the first day of racing at the Sovereign's Cup in Kinsale, County Cork yesterday. The ten times paralympian is in training for the IFDS world disabled sailing championship…
Kinsale's Sovereign's Cup, This Week's Focus for Irish Sailing
The scene is set for today's tenth edition of Kinsale Yacht Club's biennial Sovereign's Cup with an entry of 93-boats.  Last night skippers and crews attended the venue for a pre-regatta briefing and this morning's racing is expected to get…
Class Two Biggest Sovereign's Cup Fleet as Kinsale Publishes IRC Bands
#sovscup – On the eve of racing in the 2013 Sovereign's Cup, Kinsale Yacht Club released IRC class bands for tomorrow's handicap cruiser divisions. Based on these bands, it is expected that ten boats will come to the starting area in…
ICRA Winner 'Quest' to Contest Kinsale's Sovereign's Cup
#sovscup –The tenth edition of Kinsale Yacht Club's biennial Sovereign's Cup gets under way next week with a very healthy entry list of 90-boats. (Scroll down the page for the full entry list). The recent reopening of Kinsale Yacht Club…
Kinsale Yacht Club Open the Door on New Clubhouse Just in Time for the Sovereign's Cup
Kinsale Yacht Club officially opened its club house just in time to host the Sovereign's Cup for cruiser classes and 1720s next week (27th-30th June). The south coast club will also stage the International Federation of Disabled Sailing World Championships…
Sovereign's Cup Sailor's Hotel Deal - €49 at Kinsale's Carlton Hotel
Pamper yourself at the Carlton Hotel Kinsale for just €49pps per night bed & breakfast. That's the deal Kinsale Yacht Club has struck for sailors and supporters of the Covestone Asset Management Sovereign's Cup. The offer is subject to availability…
Ministerial Approval for Kinsale's Sovereign's Cup
#sovereigns cup – Over a quarter of entries to date for the Sovereign's Cup Regatta hail from the UK and current entry levels are running at over twice the rate of April 2011. Minister Simon Coveney was in the newly…
Three Quarters of Entries for Sovereign's Cup 2013 are Visitors to Kinsale
With just three months to go to the Covestone Asset Management Sovereign's Cup 2013, the first listing of registered entrants has just been published and features an impressive 45 entries covering the full spectrum of yacht racing - from stripped…