Monthly Archives: September 2024

Closing Regatta & Ceilidh

SATURDAY & SUNDAY 28th & 29th September 2024

We have our closing regatta at the end of September, and we invite everyone to take part of the sailing race and/or the Ceilidh in the evening. This will be a great opportunity for members of the club to get together towards the end of the sailing calendar to blow of some steam and have a boogie.

Members and non-members are invited to the sailing regatta, when you are interested and do not have received a notice of race contact us by email and we will send you one. On this day we will have visitors from the Blue bells Enterprise sailing as we have had for many years.
If there are any skiff members that would like to sail on the day, the club has some boats that are available for the day.

Not a sailor? We would still like you to join us during the day to support us, help out in the club house or on the shore. We would like even more for you to join us in the evening when we have our buffet dinner and Ceilidh. (We are looking for donations of soup for lunch and food for the evening)

If you want to get more information about the day, evening or want to help out please contact us.

Use the ‘Closing regatta and ceilidh form’ to register for sailing, ceilidh or both.

Closing regatta & Ceilidh Form

Olympic Sailing: Point – Counter-Point

The Irish Times carried an editorial by Jonathan Liew in which he found the Olympic Games had grown to include many sports, and arguably, too many.

So Liew initiated a review, and found many negatives about Sailing, calling it to be “a continuing sop to super-rich men who founded the Games and still just really love yachts, basically inaccessible to most of the countries in the world, even the ones with a viable coastline.”

There was a lot of disagreement with his view… here’s what Sheila Armstrong had to say:
I learned to sail off the coast of Sligo in a three-metre Mirror dinghy built by my father sometime in the early 1990s. So did my siblings, my cousins, and my nieces and nephews. The boat is called Sideshow Bob, and it has been holed, capsized and repaired so many times that the Ship of Theseus could take notes. We travelled to competitions around Ireland and even made it abroad a few times in these Mirror dinghies. As adults, some of us graduated to larger boats and some drifted away, but we can all still tie a damn good knot. –
Full report