Solo Sailing and Circumavigation News
Irish Solo Sailor Tom Dolan Looks to Pick Up New Skills On The Route du Rhum Race
5th November 2022 Tom Dolan
With the Figaro circuit season behind him, Ireland’s solo sailor Tom Dolan is fully involved in the Route du Rhum solo ocean race across the Atlantic from Saint-Malo to Guadeloupe. He is working in the back up team to French 35-year-old…
Tom Dolan and Crew Finish Fifth in Beneteau Figaro 3 French National Championships
11th October 2022 Tom Dolan
Irish solo offshore sailor Tom Dolan and his French crew sailed to fifth place in the Figaro Beneteau 3 French National Championships, which were raced over the weekend off Lorient, Brittany. Racing Dolan’s Smurfit Kappa-Kingspan, the crew were lying in…
Ilen’s Ancient Appearance at Sandycove in Dun Laoghaire Is Offset By Some Modern Thinking Underwater
22nd September 2022 Ilen
It was good to know of the sail training ketch Ilen lying serenely in the Scotsman’s Bay-Sandycove anchorage south of Dun Laoghaire Harbour last night, like a proper sailing ship of ancient times taking a useful break to await a…
Ireland’s Tom Dolan Finishes Seventh Overall after 'Brutal' Final Stage of La Solitaire du Figaro
8th September 2022 Figaro
Top Irish solo sailor Tom Dolan (Smurfit Kappa-Kingspan) has taken seventh overall on the 53rd La Solitaire du Figaro, the three-stage French solo offshore race which finished last night in Saint Nazaire at the mouth of the Loire estuary on…
A Full Irish; The Perfect Build Up As Dolan Starts La Solitaire Final Leg
4th September 2022 Tom Dolan
A full Irish breakfast cooked in the early morning by his partner seemed to do the trick for solo sailor Tom Dolan (Smurfit Kappa-Kingspan) as he made probably his most assured, confident start yet of his La Solitaire du Figaro…
Fifth Placed Tom Dolan in the Hunt for Overall La Solitaire du Figaro Honours
3rd September 2022 Tom Dolan
Ireland’s leading solo offshore racer Tom Dolan, skipper of Smurfit Kappa-Kingspan heads into Sunday’s final stage of La Solitaire du Figaro in a formidable fifth place, full of confidence and ready to give it all as he seeks to better…
Irish solo sailor Tom Dolan improved on his 12th place on Stage 1 when he crossed the finish line into Royan, France this morning in 5th place on the second stage of La Solitaire du Figaro. The skipper of Smurfit…
Ireland's Tom Dolan Relishing Tough Second Stage of La Solitaire du Figaro 2022
28th August 2022 Tom Dolan
Twelfth after Stage 1 of the 2022 La Solitaire du Figaro, Ireland’s solo racing sailor Tom Dolan (Smurfit Kappa-Kingspan) sees the 635 miles second stage, which starts Sunday at 1300hrs local time in Port La Forêt, Finistère, Brittany, as a…
It's Unlucky 13th for Tom Dolan as Switzerland’s Brave Palmieri Builds Figaro Lead Into Final Night
24th August 2022 Figaro
With 150 nautical miles still to complete of the Stage 1 course shortened to 559 miles Swiss skipper Nils Palmieri (Teamwork) has established a break at the head of the 34 strong La Solitaire du Figaro lead after he made…
Dolan and Laperche Lead As Figaro Course is Shortened, Audacious Rookie Bourgnon Makes Jump to Third
23rd August 2022 Figaro
With the course now shortened by 85 miles to 559 nautical miles because of intermittent periods of light winds, the leaders on Stage 1 of the 2002 La Solitaire du Figaro should round a virtual waypoint at the mouth of…
Dun Laoghaire sailor Mark O'Connor has solo transatlantic ambitions and here, the 23-year-old UCD engineering student details his journey to 2023 Mini Transat qualification To qualify for a Mini Transat, one must complete 1500 miles of Classe Mini Regattas and…
Tom Dolan, the Irish solo offshore sailor, will start the 400 miles Solo Guy Cotten race on Thursday with high hopes of repeating or bettering his fifth place result in this final ‘dress rehearsal’ race before La Solitaire du Figaro…
The Spirit of Conor O'Brien’s Pioneering Saoirse is Afloat Again in West Cork
12th July 2022 Conor O'Brien
Down in West Cork, they have a way of quietly getting on with things until a major waypoint is inevitably passed in the project, and then we’re into new territory. For two or three years now, Liam Hegarty and his…
With a ninth place earned this Sunday morning when, exhausted, they crossed the second leg finishing line back into Saint Gilles Croix de Vie on France’s Vendée coastline, Ireland’s Tom Dolan and English co-skipper Alan Roberts finish eighth overall in…
Irish-Anglo Duo Tom Dolan and Alan Roberts Are Set For Sardinha Cup Offshore Race To Portugal
5th June 2022 Tom Dolan
The Irish skipper Tom Dolan teams up again with his English friend and counterpart Alan Roberts to compete on the Sardinha Cup, a two-handed race which starts from Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie on the west coast of France and races 580 miles across…
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Tom Dolan’s Beneteau Figaro 2 ( #15) (formerly “Smurfit Kappa”) is the second generation of the Beneteau Figaro series. She was designed by Lombard and built in 2004 by Beneteau. She was raced on the Figaro professional sailing circuit until 2018…
