Women in Sailing
SSE Renewables Round Ireland Race 2024 Asserts International Cred And Welcomes Female RORC Commodore
9th December 2023 W M Nixon
We know that the biennial SSE Renewables 700-mile Round Ireland Race from Wicklow is a significant fixture in the international calendar. We know it well, because since its inception through the dedication of the late Michael Jones and his voluntary…
Pamela Lee of Greystones is “Sailor of the Month (Offshore)” for November
1st December 2023 Sailor of the Month
The short-handed long-distance offshore racing scene from France is recognised as the world peak in a very specialised area. Design development at all boat sizes is at such a pace that in a hyper-hot division such as Class40, anyone racing…
Pip Hare on Retour à La Base: “It is Looking Classic, Head North, Find Depression Put your Foot Down….”
29th November 2023 Solo Sailing
Pip Hare, who recently visited Dun Laoghaire on Dublin Bay, is one of those racers who is probably happiest when she is at sea, at one with her IMOCA Medallia. But the British racer now faces her biggest test yet…
Did you know that LARPING, or more accurately LARPing, means Live Action Role Playing? Me neither. But then, having tended to the opinion that historical re-enactments are really history for the feeble-minded or those of limited imagination, we’ve tended to…
Former Kinsale sailor Steph Lyons, the Kildare horsewoman who includes experience of the Sail Training Brigantine Asgard II in her seafaring story, is continuing to add to her remarkable CV in Australia, where she works in a senior role in…
Irish Woman Pamela Lee Among Record Breaking Transat Jacques Vabre Fleet Due a Strong Winds Start This Afternoon
29th October 2023 Transatlantic Jacques Vabre
A record-breaking fleet of 95 boats, which is set to start the 16th edition of the Transat Jacques Vabre Normandie Le Havre double-handed race from Le Havre to Martinique, is set to encounter very robust conditions as they leave the…
Pamela Lee of Greystones Races In Ultra-Challenging Transat Jacques Vabre At End Of Great Sailing Week For Ireland
28th October 2023 W M Nixon
It has been a remarkable week for Irish sailing, with our clubs last weekend managing to get in the complete programme of Autumn League racing despite being close in on the tail end of Storm Babet. Meanwhile, Eve McMahon confirmed…
The Famous Project & Breaking the Non-Stop Unassisted Round-the-World Record on the Maxi-Trimaran IDEC-Sport
15th October 2023 Jules Verne Trophy
Round the World Sailors Alexia Barrier and Dee Caffari gave the latest RORC Talk about ‘The Famous Project’ at the London Clubhouse, on the 10th of October. The live recording is now available. View the hour-long talk on RORC TV…
“Offshore sailing is a mechanical sport, and it is an intellectual sport. More than using physical abilities and power, you can use your head to get the boat to work for you.” That piece of advice could, it seems to…
Solo Global Circumnavigator Pip Hare On Women in Sailing, Managing Fear and Her New Vendéé Globe Campaign
6th October 2023 Wavelength Podcast
Pip Hare picked up a magazine one day to read about the BOC challenge, which was the forerunner to the Vendéé Globe. “And all of a sudden, there is Isabelle Autissier, absolutely kicking arse and being written about in the…
Östling's WINGS Crew are Crowned 2023 Women’s World Match Racing Tour Champions
25th September 2023 Match Racing
Sweden’s WINGS match racing team led by Anna Östling has been x after winning the final stage of the tour at the KDY Women’s Match Race in Skovshoved Harbour. New Zealand’s Celia Willison/ EDGE Women’s Match finished the world tour…
Royal Irish Yacht Club in association with BDO to host talk with Pip Hare
21st September 2023 Royal Irish Yacht Club
Dun Laoghaire Harbour's Royal Irish Yacht Club and professional services firm BDO will co-host an exclusive evening with Pip Hare, the solo ocean sailor, on Thursday, October 5 at 7:00 pm. As Afloat reported at the time, Hare, who turned…
Women on the Water Programme Sees Increase in Female Participation in Northern Ireland Sailing Clubs
24th August 2023 Women in Sailing
The roller coaster programme that is the RYA Northern Ireland’s Women on the Water has seen a satisfyingly noticeable increase in the numbers of women sailing and taking to the water on paddleboards and windsurfers. Recently, the Donaghadee Club on…
The RC44 Class Rule has been rewritten to allow for at least one female crew member this season, and the 44Cup will be seeing its first all-female team next week. The nine competing teams will include the "black boat," typically…
When the first Fastnet Race was sailed in 1925 amidst controversy over the foolhardiness of bringing “reckless competition” into ocean voyaging, the last thing on the organisers’ mind was the crazy thought that by 2023, with the 50th Fastnet getting…
The Ocean Race 2022-23 featured more female sailors than in any of the previous events in the race’s 50-year history. Overall, across the five IMOCAs taking part in the round-the-world race and the six VO65s taking part in the The…
