Irish Youth Sailing News. Regattas, Juniors, Training, Courses, Skills
ISA Youth Champs Head North to Ballyholme Yacht Club For The First Time
4th January 2017 Youth Sailing
Ballyholme Yacht Club on Belfast Lough in Northern Ireland will host its first ISA Youth Sailing Pathway National Championships incorporating the first leg of the IODAI 2017 Optimist Trials in April. The event will be hosted from Thursday 20th to…
Hemeryck Ninth, Durcan 16th as Youth World Sailing Champs Close in New Zealand
20th December 2016 Youth Sailing
The National Yacht Club's Nicole Hemeryck has finished in the top ten in the Girls Laser Radial fleet at the Youth Sailing World Championships that concluded in New Zealand yesterday. Team mate Johnny Durcan of Royal Cork was 16th in…
Irish Sailors Seek Top Ten Finish At Youth Sailing Worlds, New Zealand
19th December 2016 Youth Sailing
Ireland's Youth Laser Radial sailors are aiming for a top ten finish at the Youth Sailing World Championships after eight races races sailed in New Zealand. The National Yacht Club's Nicole Hemeryck is back in the top ten in the…
Irish Youth Sailors Battling Hard in New Zealand, Durcan Hit With Black Flag
18th December 2016 Youth Sailing
Both of Ireland's Youth Laser Radial sailors are battling hard to stay in contention at the Youth Sailing World Championships after six races races sailed in New Zealand. The National Yacht Club's Nicole Hemeryck has dropped three places to eleventh in the Girls Laser…
Both of Ireland's Laser Radial sailors are off to a strong start at the at the Youth Sailing World Championships after four races races sailed in New Zealand. The National Yacht Club's Nicole Hemeryck is in the top ten of the Girls Laser…
Durcan & Hemeryck Prepare for Battle At Youth Worlds in New Zealand
12th December 2016 Youth Sailing
Royal Cork's Johnny Durcan and the National Yacht Club's Nicole Hemeryck are ready for battle at the 2016 Aon Youth Sailing World Championships in New Zealand this Friday. Both the Irish sailors will compete in the Laser Radial class which…
Cork Institute of Technology have finished fourth overall at the Student Yachting World Cup in France. It is disappointing result for Team Ireland after being in the top three overall all week. Yesterday was very shifty on the water with…
Cork Institute of Technology Lying Third At Student Yachting World Cup
7th November 2016 Youth Sailing
Tiredness slowly settled in after the demanding first few days of competition at the Student Yachting world Cup in France. The night race of the second day added even more strain to the crews, who quickly realized that perseverance would…
The first of the new ISA Junior Sailing Performance Seminars was postponed last month and will now take place at a date to be announced in 2017. As Afloat.ie reported in September the ISA announced that the seminars were replacing…
South coast youth sailors took to the podium in style at the ISA All Ireland Junior Sailing Championships prizegiving this afternoon securing the top three places overall in the 16-boat invitational fleet. It is the third year in a row…
All Ireland Inter-Schools Sailing Regatta Draws 140 Sailors from 32 Schools To Sutton
24th September 2016 Youth Sailing
Last weekend Sutton Dinghy Club ran their Inter-Schools Sailing event. The event in its 41st year attracted 32 schools with 107 boats and 144 youth sailors making the start line last Saturday morning. Well 2 start lines actually with 38 boats…
Show of Youth Sailing Strength for Royal St. George As Big Breeze Forecast for Junior All–Irelands
23rd September 2016 Youth Sailing
Tomorrow's All Ireland Junior sailing championships looks like it will get off to a wet and windy start for the 16–nominated junior sailing stars drawn from seven yacht clubs from around the country. The Under–18 championships is scheduled to race…
In an exciting new initiative for youth sailors, the Irish Sailing Association has announced provisional details on a series of Performance Pathway Seminars. The seminars are replacing the ISA Optimist Squads and ISA Topper Squad which have traditionally run from…
Royal Cork's Harry Durcan and Harry Whittaker have won the UK 29er National Championship in Torbay. After six days racing and 19 races in all, it all came down to the final race which they secured with a bullet giving…
The Lansdowne Partnership Royal Irish Yacht Club Junior Regatta took place on Wednesday 20th July in challenging and changeable weather conditions. There were 2 courses, one inside the harbour for the Optimist Regatta fleet and one outside the harbour for…
Bord Iascaigh Mhara Promote Safety at Sea to Young Sailors from the Irish Youth Sailing Club
12th July 2016 Youth Sailing
Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM), the Irish Sea Fisheries Board were delighted to present the Irish Youth Sailing Club with a set of compact Personal Flotation Devices (PFDs) on Monday 11th July at the West Pier, Dun Laoghaire. Building on BIM’s…
