J109 Sailing News & Results
Leading from start to finish, the Kelly family J109 from Rush Sailing Club in north county Dublin sealed the IRC One victory in the ICRA National Championships on Dublin Bay this afternoon with a 4.5 points cushion. Storm counted two…
Kelly's J109 'Storm' Builds Overall Lead in IRC One of the ICRA National Championships
5th September 2021 ICRA
With top-five results scored in all five races so far - and three race wins to boot - the Kelly family J109 from Rush Sailing Club continues to lead the ICRA Nationals Division One on Dublin Bay. Such consistent sailing…
Rush Sailing Club's Storm Crew Stake a Claim in IRC Class One of the ICRA Nationals
3rd September 2021 ICRA
As well as taking the top two places overall, J109 designs also took six of the top ten places in the biggest class of the ICRA National Championships on Dublin Bay today. Rush Sailing Club's Storm now leads (4,1) but…
80 Boat ICRA Nationals Fleet Prepares to Race at the National Yacht Club (Download Class Divisions Here!)
31st August 2021 ICRA
The Irish Cruiser Racing Association (ICRA) National Championships returns to Dublin Bay this weekend (September 3-5th) and brings one of the biggest Division Zero fleets the cruiser-racer body has ever seen. An expected fleet of 13 Zeros is bigger than the…
It was a one, two overall for the J109 design in this weekend's Kinsale Yacht Club SCORA Fastnet Race. Royal Cork yacht Jelly Baby claimed a victory in a corrected time of 21 hours:13 minutes: 26 seconds from the host club's Artful Dodger (Finbarr…
Kinsale J/109 Artful Dodjer Among the Ten Boat Fleet for SCORA Race Round the Fastnet Rock
14th July 2021 Kinsale
An estimated fleet of ten boats is contemplating a light air forecast for Friday evening's SCORA Kinsale Yacht Club Fastnet Race. Sponsored by UK Sailmakers Ireland, the fleet includes the on form host club J109 entry of Artful Dodjer (Finnbarr…
Howth Yacht Club's Historic Lambay Race Attracts 78 Keelboats Despite Club-Only Format
15th June 2021 Howth YC
With official club racing only permissible since last Monday, June 7th, and many fit-out schedules delayed through May's atrocious weather, the realists had been hoping for a turnout of maybe around 40 boats for Howth YC's opening major event of…
Howth Yacht Club J109 'Outrajeous' Pulls Out of Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race
6th June 2021 Dun Laoghaire Dingle
A Howth Yacht Club favourite for Wednesday's Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race has pulled out of the biennial race. The entry has been withdrawn due to a number of factors, the most significant being that a key crew member has…
The Royal Ocean Racing Club organised two races over the May Bank Holiday weekend. 58 boats entered, including a 91nm race for IRC Two Handed, the first overnight race of the year. Giovanni Belgrano’s Classic Whooper won the race for…
The J109 Irish Championship saw a competitive fleet on 10 entries come together on 5/6 October in Dublin Bay to race in the aftermath of Hurricane Lorenzo. As Afloat previously reported, the full programme of six races was completed. Saturday…
John Maybury's consistent Joker 2 has won the J109 National Championships after six races sailed at the Royal Irish Yacht Club today. Maybury won half of the six races in the series but counted all six results in the top three.…
John Maybury's Joker II Takes the Lead at J109 Nationals at Royal Irish Yacht Club
5th October 2019 J109
The host club's Joker 2 skippered by John Maybury leads the J109 National Championships after the first three races sailed from the Royal Irish Yacht Club today. Racing in southerly winds gusting to 20-knots, poor visibility on Dublin Bay kept crews…
Royal Cork Olympian Mark Mansfield was the tactician and main sheet trimmer on John Smart's J109 Jukebox at the 2019 UK J109 Nationals held last weekend at the Royal Southern Yacht Club in Hamble. The J109 Nationals was part of…
35 boats took part in the Hendrick Ryan Royal Dee Offshore Championship 2019 that took place over two weekends and over 5 races. The championship included the ISORA Offshore from Douglas IOM to Dun Laoghaire on Sunday the 7th July…
It was with the numerous J/109s in IRC 1 that blood was on the bay today at Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta, with the narrow overnight lead of Outrajeous (Richard Colwell & John Murphy) snatched away by a final win by…
J109 'Mojito' Becomes Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta Offshore Leader as 'Mermaid' slips in IRC Coastal Contest
14th July 2019 Volvo Regatta
The clear record of Seamus Fitzpatrick’s First 50 Mermaid IV (RIYC) in the coastal racing of Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta slipped today, taking quite a knock with an 11th while the Pwllheli J/109 (Peter Dunlop) was on top form to…
