February 10

07th - 33rd America’s cup kickoff is on Monday at 9am - so will it be Alinghi’s Cat or Oracle’s Tri ???

 

January 10

24th - IOM racing in Cork - John wins the day by a mer 1 point ahead of Andrew.

29th - Australian national are under way - report, results and pictures here

 

November 09

12th - NOR and SI for the National Champs are now available to download here

8th - East Coast Championships was held in Clontarf Yacht & Boat Club. Race report and results here

 

October 09

17th - local racing took place in Iniscara Co. Cork in light wind.

10th - Launch of our discussion forum - This is to facilitate open discussion amongst our member

 

September 09

11th - Photo gallery updated with the pictures of the Southcoast championships - click here to access it.

6th - Afloat forum thread on John and Andrew at the Worlds exceeds 1,840 visits. Excellent !!!

 

August 09

15th - Andrew  makes it a double at the 2009 South Coast Championships - read the full article

2nd - 8th August : a number of practice sailing sessions have taken place in Dublin and Cork for tuning and testing new rigs as well as gaining more on the water practice.

 

July 09

21th - one more boat for sale from the US - check our for sale section

20th - Andrew ‘s Azetone made her maiden voyage today in Cork. Though the weight distribution is different - and this is not a bad thing - the boat is still under weight and the first tests showed some good potential - more to come.

 

June 09

30th - more boats for sale - check our for sale section here

29th - photo galleries have been updated with the pictures from the Worlds - click here to see them

World Championships 2009 Special : John & Andrew are flying the Irish colours - all about it here

1st - More photo galleries have been added - click here to see them

 

May 09

18th - for sale page updated with new boats for sale - more here >>> for sale

17th - Another successful racing day - see the race report and the results here

15th - you can now download our class leaflet to discover all about the IOM class and the activity in Ireland here

8th - In April we received 2 IOM  boats from Damien Cronin who kindly contacted us to donate his 2 boats. I have since prepared the Widget which is now ready to hit the water again and these boats can be used by people wanting to try IOM and get a feel for them. Thanks to Damien for your donation it will help us and new members.

 

April 09

21th - More training session in Cork by our Cork fleet in all kinds of conditions - even in the recent gale force wind so our 2 skippers who will fly the Irish flag at the next World Championships have plenty of time on the water in all weather conditions to fine tune their boats.

13th - 3 Irish skippers go to the UK to race against top UK skippers including the current World Champion as part of their preparation program. They all did very well, even winning some races. Showing that they do have the pace which is also good to assess the level of racing on our own water.

 

March 09

29th - Day 4 of the HYC Winter Series shows Gilbert extending his lead in B rig conditions - read more here >>>

19th - New picture galleries - you have a flavour of how they’ll look like here but bear in mind they are work in progress and I’m still learning this new application. Hope you’ll enjoy the new interface...

15th - Successful second day of the class winter series in LDYC with 9 boats - read more here >>>

 

February 09

22nd - Our Cork fleet raced in front of the RCYC and completed 11 races with John Morehead dominating the day. Superb pictures taken by Gabrielle Morehead - see them here >>>

18th to 22nd - IOM class will be at the Boat Show for the first time - stand L17a, come and visit us

15th - Day 3 of the HYC IOM Winter Series - read more here >>>

1st - Open training day in RCYC was successful with 6 people who came to see and try IOM

 

January 09

26th - First IOM winter series successfully completed this Sunday - read more here >>>

2nd - 2009 World Championships announced to be in Barbados from 20th-27th June

 

December

26th - check out the updated links pages - go to link page

19th - New skipper joins the fleet - Alan Dwyer joins the IOM Cork fleet - We welcome you Alan.

14th - Day 2 of HYC winter series - Des is fighting back and will start 2009 in the lead - read more here >>>

8th - check out the updated technical page on rudder servo - see our technical section here

7th - new re-designed website launched

 

November

30th - first HYC winter racing day - Gilbert Takes an early lead but closely followed - read more here >>>

9th - training and tuning session was successfully organised in HYC to prepare boats & skippers for the winter series

 

October

IOM fleet got interest at the ISA helmsman champs in HYC as we trained ahead of the European in Croatia where Jeff will be representing IRL.

New 2009-2012 racing rules of sailing - Read more here >>>

 

September

Gilbert Louis raced in France and finished 5th in light and tricky winds : more here>>>  

  

August

Andew Crosbie wins the Southcoast Championships - read more here >>>

 

June

John Morehead wins the 2008 National championships - pictures and report here

Irish IOM Champs are on in Dromineer - Entry form & Nottice of raceds available here

 

April

A number of racing days have been cancelled due to adverse weather conditions

 

March

Report & race results spring series Day 3 here

 

February

More boats for sale

Report of Day 1 of the Spring Series

 

January

Find all the information about the International Tricastin Cup or Pierrelatte on the poster

Wishing you a happy new year and may the wind shifts be with you

 

How well do you know your sailing rules - test yourself here