Irish Laser/ILCA Sailing Dinghy News & Regatta Results
Ireland's Eve McMahon Has Stiff Test for ILCA6 Gold Fleet Cut at Sailing World Championships
15th August 2023 Paris 2024 Olympic Sailing
Ireland's Eve McMahon of Howth Yacht Club dropped to 81st overall in her 110-strong ILCA6 women's single-handed class at the Allianz Sailing World Championships in the Netherlands on Monday. With two races left to decide the Gold fleet split for…
ILCA Nats 2023 At Howth On Friday Will Have Compact Three-Day User-Friendly Format
14th August 2023 Howth YC
International economists and financial journalists trying to analyse just how and why the Irish economy is doing so well these days might learn something from studying the mutations of the annual sailing programme. National events that in times past might…
Black Flag for Howth's Eve McMahon in ILCA 6 is Set Back at Sailing World Championships
13th August 2023 Paris 2024 Olympic Sailing
Ireland's Eve McMahon of Howth Yacht Club took eleventh in her ILCA6 opening race at the Sailing World Championships in The Hague before suffering a Black Flag disqualification in race two. Hungarian Maria Erdi and Italian Carolina Albano sit level at the…
Eighth Overall for Finn Lynch is Solid Start to ILCA 7 Sailing World Championships at The Hague
13th August 2023 Paris 2024 Olympic Sailing
Rio 2016 Olympian Finn Lynch (National Yacht Club) in the Men's ILCA7 event had a 12th and a fourth place on the opening day to end a solid eighth overall at the Sailing World Championships at The Hague. The championships are…
The U21 ILCA ILCA Europeans sailing competition has kicked off in Stavanger, Norway, with 230 sailors from over 36 nations competing for top honours. 155 ILCA 7 sailors and 75 ILCA 6 female sailors will participate in the event, with…
Sienna Wright of Howth is a Junior “Sailor of the Month” for July
3rd August 2023 Sailor of the Month
Steadily rising star Sienna Wright from Howth recorded a formidable tally in the Under 17 Division in the ILCA 6s at two major regattas in Poland during July. The Youth Worlds early in the month saw her take the silver…
Greek Wildfire Crisis: ILCA Sailing Coaches Become Heroes Saving Stranded Locals
31st July 2023 World Sailing
Sailing coaches at the ILCA 4 Youth World Championships in Volos, Greece, have been hailed as heroes after they saved over 130 people from wildfires. The coaches witnessed the scene from across the water as racing concluded and quickly sprang…
This year has already seen a plethora of successes for Howth Yacht Club in the ILCA division, including a one-two brother-sister punch from Ewan and Eve McMahon — who won the ILCA 7 and ILCA 6 fleets respectively in the…
Double Silver for Howth’s Sienna Wright in International ILCA 6 Competition This Month
23rd July 2023 Laser
It’s been a bumper month for Howth Yacht Club’s Sienna Wright on the international stage, with U17 silver medals in the ILCA 6 Youth Worlds and Europeans. Last week in Gdynia, Poland at the Youth European Championships (12-19 July), the…
National Yacht Club's Finn Lynch in the Hunt for a Paris 2024 Test Event Medal
14th July 2023 Paris 2024 Olympic Sailing
An ultra-consistent Finn Lynch (IRL) is lurking in the hunt for a podium finish at the Paris 2024 Test Event in Marseilles on Saturday after a string of top-ten results in a 42-boat ILCA 7 fleet. The National Yacht Club's Lynch…
After the elation of a race win in race eight, Eve McMahon managed 21st in races nine and ten today as the ILCA 6 class wrapped up the places for the final medal race at the Paris 2024 Test Event. …
Race Win Puts Finn Lynch into Third Overall at Paris 2024 Test Event
13th July 2023 Paris 2024 Olympic Sailing
Marseille's mistral breeze swept Ireland's Finn Lynch into third overall after eight races sailed today in the ILCA 7 at the Paris 2024 Test Event Lynch has had a consistent regatta with seven top eight results and bounced back from…
Howth's Eve McMahon Shines in Mistral Breeze at Paris 2024 Test Event
13th July 2023 Paris 2024 Olympic Sailing
Ireland’s rising star Eve McMahon caught the eye on the Olympic Stage in Marseille today with a win in mistral conditions in the Paris 2024 ILCA 6 Test Event. The appearance of the mistral had a big impact at the…
Finn Lynch Stays in Top Five at Paris 2024 Olympic Test Regatta
11th July 2023 Paris 2024 Olympic Sailing
French sailors continued to shine in Marseille on an action-packed Tuesday at the Paris 2024 Test Event, which saw all ten classes in action and Ireland's Finn Lynch in fifth place overall in the ILCA 7 men's dinghy class. Michael Beckett…
Howth's Eve McMahon Lies 12th at Paris 2024 Olympic Test event
11th July 2023 Paris 2024 Olympic Sailing
A black flag for Eve McMahon (19) in race five of the Paris 2024 Olympic Test event in Marseille has been a setback for the Howth sailor, who lies in the top one-third of her ILCA 6 38-boat fleet. McMahon…
Single Point Victory for Rush's Fox in ILCA 6 Battle at Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta
9th July 2023 Volvo Regatta
After three days of hectic racing, Rush Sailing Club's Tom Fox won by a single point in the ILCA 6 class of Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta on Sunday, beating Afloat's pre-regatta tip of Darren Griffin as the Malahide sailor was…
