Our well known ex pat sailor of Royal Cork Yacht Club based in Hong Kong, Jamie McWilliam of the well known McWilliam sail making family, has acquired a new build Ker 40 from the McConaghy Yard.  Naturally she will carry a full suit of U. K. Halsey sails now that Uncle Des (McWilliam) is the recently appointed World President of the Company. Conversing on line with Jamie and enquiring as to his plans for this super boat he indicated he would very much like to be with us for Cork Week 2012 but cautioned, and I quote “bear in mind our appearance at Cork Week is by no means certain! [...]

Congratulations to Sophie Brown of Tralee Bay SC and Royal Cork YC who has been awarded  Sailor of the Month title for January. See story here

The Royal Cork will host the North U “Strategies for Racing Success” Seminar with speaker Bill Gladstone next Thursday 2nd February from 7 – 11pm. Tuition €20.

The O’Leary/Burrows pairing finished 5th overall in the Rolex US Sailing OCR at Biscayne Bay Miami today. In the light wind Medal Race they finished 4th to give them  nine  finishes in the top ten out of the eleven race series.  This included two seconds, three thirds and  fourth in the Medal Race and  achieving all this in what was believed to be a borrowed boat, giving them some performance indeed. Robert Scheidt and Bruno Prada of Brazil won the series followed by Xavier Rohart and Pierre  Alexis Ponsot of France and Elvind Melleby and Petter Pedersen of Norway second and third respectively. Sweden’s Frederik Loof and Max Salminen  took [...]

Update 9.45pm 25.1.12. Day 3 at the 2012 Rolex Miami OCR ISAF Sailing World Cup Regatta and once again the Irish sailors continued to progress further up the leader board. Three of the teams had their best day of the regatta so far which included a race win and four other top 10 results. Conditions remained light on Biscayne Bay with a steady breeze of between 9 and 13 knots. Currently sitting in 6th overall, up three places from yesterday, are Peter O’Leary and David Burrows in the Star class. Having found their form yesterday they continued to achieve top results today finishing 3rd in both of their races. They [...]

The 291st AGM of the Royal Cork Yacht Club took place on Monday January 16th at the Club  and attracted an overflow attendance. Outgoing Admiral Paddy McGlade took   the attendance through the business of the meeting prior to the election of the new Admiral and his Committee.  Before proceeding with the election of  the Admiral and Officers the outgoing Admiral expressed his thanks to all those who had helped him throughout his term of office and gave particular thanks to his wife Olga for her tremendous support and assistance. The election of the new committee then took place with Peter Deasy elected to the role of RCYC Admiral to the [...]

The Royal Cork will hold a level 2 race officer course on Saturday 10th March from 10am – 4pm. Fee €25. Please book your place with the Club office 021 4831023 or miriam@royalcork.com