Dun laoghaire regatta programme 2007

Ireland’s Biggest Regatta July 12 - 15 2007

Contents Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta 2007 // Official Guide // July 12 - 15 2007

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Entries Roll in for Irish Cowes

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At the Heart of Sailing

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Half Ton Racing Returns to Bay

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Supporting Irish Sailing I am delighted that Volvo Car Ireland is the title sponsor for the 2007 Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta. The inaugural event in 2005 was a huge success, a testament to the efforts and enthusiasm of all the competitors, volunteers, organisers and sponsors, and I am certain that the 2007 event will be even more successful. Over the next few years, there is no doubt that the Dun Laoghaire Regatta will become a firm fixture in the national and European sailing calendar.

The word ‘enthusiasm’ is from Greek and means ‘to be inspired’ and it was the enthusiasm of the organising committee that inspired my colleagues and myself to ensure Volvo Car Ireland become be the title sponsor to the 2007 Dun Laoghaire Regatta.

Volvo has been involved with national and international sailing events for many years. The Volvo Ocean Race has a history dating back to 1973, when 17 race yachts, carrying 167 crew from seven different nations, sailed into the English Channel from

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Portsmouth on the initial leg of the first ever global crewed yacht race, then known as the Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race. By the time Volvo became involved in 1997, ten teams fought intensely for the Volvo Trophy, which was won that year by American first timer Paul Cayard. Since 2001 it has been called the Volvo Ocean Race, but the ingredients remain the same – ingenuity, skill and sheer courage – and the 2008/2009 Volvo Ocean Race will be no different.

It is fitting that on the 10th anniversary of Volvo becoming involved in top-level yacht racing and this, Volvo’s 80th year, that Volvo Car Ireland should be the title sponsor for the 2007 Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta. Volvo believe that it is good to give something back to an activity that so many of our customers and their families are involved in, from youngsters racing Optimists at weekends all the way through to the highest level of international competition. Secondly, club racing should be about safe excitement and

that is exactly what we seek to deliver with our cars, be it the exciting style of the new C30 Coupe, or the opportunities for adventure with the All Wheel Drive XC90; from the exhilarating performance of the 220 bhp T5 engine in the Volvo S40 to the sheer comfort and style of the New Volvo S80. All exciting in their different ways, all feature Volvo’s world-renowned safety.

Sailing offers Ireland a fantastic opportunity to showcase the country’s talents today, both in terms of individuals and crews competing and, as in the case of the Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta, the ability to stage top level competitions. It is for all of these reasons that I am delighted that Volvo Car Ireland is the title sponsor to this year’s event. It is only left for me to wish all competitors, volunteers and organisers an exciting, safe and memorable few days of sailing.

David Baddeley Managing Director Volvo Car Ireland Limited

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Welcome to Irish Waters It is a privilege to welcome you all to this year’s Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta. This event, in its second year, brings together competitive sailing, entertainment and Irish hospitality.

With over 3,000 competitors and 500 boats from domestic shores and overseas, the regatta will be the biggest Irish sailing event this year and one of the biggest participant sporting events in the country.

As an island, we are blessed with excellent year-round natural sailing conditions, over 5,600 km of beautiful scenic coastline and hundreds of lakes and rivers, making Ireland an ideal location for sailing and water sports of all types.

Fáilte Ireland, the National Tourism Development Authority, recognises the importance of sailing to our tourism industry and has identified water sports in general as a key tourism area for Ireland with considerable potential for growth. Through the International Sports Tourism Initiative

we have supported the Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta and welcome the opportunity to present Ireland’s top class sailing facilities on a world stage.

The International Sports Tourism Initiative targets and sponsors events which enjoy a high-profile position in their own sporting calendar and can showcase Ireland as a major sports tourist destination. Since its inception in 2000, some 139 international sporting events have been successfully staged here in Ireland with sponsorship from Fáilte Ireland. In addition, we have just had the announcement that Ireland has secured a stopover, in Galway, for the prestigious Volvo Ocean Race 2008/09.

With a busy year ahead for events here in Ireland, our tourism product will be at the forefront of the sporting world with the focus on highlighting Ireland as a ‘natural sports arena’.

Overseas participation has increased this year with the securing of the Half Ton Classics Cup and the inclusion of Dun Laoghaire as a stopover on the Celtic Goodwill Rally. Both these

events have helped to attract the major European sailing nations and many additional entries. Top international officials are participating, and their involvement is likely to attract high profile yachts and sailors.

The regatta generates huge tourism dividends for Dun Laoghaire and Dublin’s East Coast region and I would like to commend the four associated clubs, the Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club, National Yacht Club, Royal Irish Yacht Club and Royal St. George Yacht Club for their management and promotion of the event.

In welcoming the participants, officials, and supporters from home and abroad to this wonderful event, may I wish you four days of challenging and rewarding sailing and happy leisure hours among the welcoming community of Dun Laoghaire.

Shaun Quinn Failte Ireland

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Looking forward to the Week On behalf of the organising committee, I would like to welcome all the competitors and their friends to the Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta. We hope that our preparation and the many months of planning will result in a successful event that fully meets your expectations both on and off the water.

We are particularity pleased with the great response we have received this year from sailors outside the Bay – those of you who are travelling to us from overseas or other Irish areas are very welcome here in Dun Laoghaire and we plan to make your stay with us an enjoyable experience. It is these visiting boats and crews that bring an exciting dynamic to the racing and the social activities along the waterfront. I know the local sailors, waterfront clubs and town will make you all very welcome.

event has made our task as a committee so much more enjoyable – thank you for your support. I would like to pay a particular thanks to Volvo and to all our sponsors for their sponsorship and the excellent working relationship we have enjoyed over the last eighteen months. Special mention is also due to the more than 240 volunteers who are freely giving their time and energy to make this event happen.

We have once again received fantastic support from all the volunteers, local bodies and sailing interests in the area. The positive manner in which everyone has embraced the

Good racing,

We look forward to good racing combined with plenty of fun ashore and hope that everyone participates fully in the activities across the waterfront.

We look forward to meeting you and getting feedback during the event – please help shape the future direction of the Regatta by participating in the post-event survey.

Brian Craig Chairman, Organising Committee

Dun Laoghaire sets the scene With its richness of historic Yacht Clubs, wonderful harbour and beautiful town, Dun Laoghaire provides the ideal setting for the Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta. As Cathaoirleach I wish to extend a special welcome to all the participants.

The Regatta will bring many visitors to Dun Laoghaire and provide a welcome boost to the town. It is indeed an event for the whole town, with an array of festival activities arranged along the waterfront to compliment the Regatta.

The level of participation is testament to the importance of this Regatta in the international sailing calendar. It has gone from strength to strength to become the biggest Irish sailing event this year.

Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council is proud to be one of the joint-sponsors of this special event.

Eugene Regan Cathaoirleach of Dun Laoghaire - Rathdown County Council

From the Waterfront Following on from the success of the inaugural event in 2005, we and our committees are delighted to support the biennial Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta.

The involvement of Volvo Car Ireland as the title sponsor has already had a major positive impact on the event. The recent announcement of the Volvo stopover in Galway 2009 is another clear indication of Volvo’s commitment to sailing.

The continuous support of Failte Ireland has added another international aspect to the Regatta. We would also like to thank our

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premium sponsors for their generous support: Affinity Insurance; Butler’s Pantry; Dun Laoghaire Harbour Company; Knight Frank Ganly Walters; and Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council.

A particular thanks must go to our army of some two hundred and forty volunteers without whom there would be no Regatta.

Commodores (pictured from left): Brian McManus, Royal St. George YC; Con Murphy, National YC; Peter Redden, Royal Irish YC; and Joe Fallon, Dun Laoghaire Motor YC

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A northern view of the country’s largest marina, with 800 berths, is located inside Dun Laoghaire harbour

Weather Service for Dun Laoghaire A Clare-based weather forecasting company has teamed up with the Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta to launch a new service at this year’s regatta in July.

Nowcasting International has grown a flourishing business in marine forecasting globally. It also services customers in the sailing market throughout Europe, notably in Olympic campaigns, and on the professional sailing circuit.

Dun Laoghaire The sailors town Looking for something?

Use this handy local services guide for close by amenities From the mountains to the sea, Dún Laoghaire really is a town for all seasons. Here’s a brief outline of what’s on offer in the neighbourhood.

Dún Laoghaire Marina, situated right in the lively east coast seaport of Dún Laoghaire, could not be better suited to visitors looking for safe moorings, pleasant walks, entertainment, good food and friendly service.

For many visitors, their first contact with Ireland is the beautiful coastline as they enter Dún Laoghaire, with its spectacular manmade harbour. A trip south

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from the city on the DART (commuter railway) takes you from the Booterstown Marsh Bird Sanctuary, close to Dublin, through Blackrock, Monkstown, Dun Laoghaire, Dalkey and the breath-taking vista of Killiney Bay, to Shankill in the south, hugging the shoreline all the way.

Within ten or fifteen minutes drive from the coast one can play golf, go hill-walking on the ‘Wicklow Way’ which starts from the magnificent Marlay Park in Rathfarnham, go horse-riding, or enjoy a host of other outdoor activities, all set in spectacular countryside.

“We have been waiting for the mobile phone technology window to open for us,” said Mark White, CEO. “At long last, the vast majority of mobile phones in use today are now able to access the Web. We have developed the technology to cost-effectively deliver our forecasts to all these phones, quickly and easily. Our service will be accessible on www.askmoby.com, from both a PC and a mobile phone.

Best of all, the service is free, although the user will pay some data charges to their own network supplier, depending on the kind of contract they have.”

Berth for the night at the Castle After a hard day’s sailing rest your land legs in luxury at Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel, the premier hotel serving the Dublin suburbs of Dun Laoghaire, Dalkey and Killiney.

Enjoy the magnificent views of Dublin Bay from this 18th century family-run castle perched high on Killiney Hill in County Dublin.

Enjoy top class cuisine in the newly refurbished PJ's restaurant or the cool and contemporary surroundings of the Dungeon Bar and Grill. Relax in the fully-equipped Fitzpatrick Fitness Centre with its 22 metre swimming pool, sauna, steam room, gymnasium, hairdressers and beauty salon.

Play on the excellent golf courses and other activities in the local area, or visit historic Glendalough, scenic Roundwood or the Powerscourt gardens, all a short drive away. The hotel is also just a short stroll from the pretty village of Dalkey with its gourmet restaurants and cosy pubs.

Just 9 miles south from the centre of Dublin, the Hotel is easily accessible from Dún Laoghaire (5km) and offers ample, free car parking facilities. There are 113 en-suite luxurious bedrooms and suites decorated in traditional castle style, but featuring modern requirements such as an in-house entertainment system, WIFI and room service.

Summer Sailing Specials at Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel start at €65 per person sharing for bed and breakfast; with a mid-week special from €150 per person sharing for two nights bed and breakfast and one evening meal between Sunday and Thursday; while a weekend wonder special available from Friday to Sunday costs €195 per person sharing and includes two nights bed and breakfast and one evening meal. For more details call 01 230 5400 or email reservations@fitzpatricks.com or check out www.fitzpatrickcastle.com

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The area around Dun Laoghaire, Dalkey and Killiney is steeped in our literary and cultural heritage, both past and present. James Joyce, that great Irishman of letters, saw fit to base the opening chapter of ‘Ulysses’ in the striking Martello Tower at Sandycove, just south of the harbour which was his home for a short while, and now houses a museum in his honour. The poet Oliver St. John Gogarty lived here.

Nobel Prize Winner George Bernard Shaw of ‘Pygmalion’ fame lived nearby in Dalkey.

More recently, the area has become home to musicians Enya, Bono and The Edge of U2, writer Maeve Binchy, playwrights Hugh Leonard and Bernard Farrell, and Neil Jordan from the film world.

The new Heritage Centre in the Goat Castle on Dalkey’s Castle Street celebrates the town’s magical history as well as hosting art exhibitions, and programmes of music and drama. The National Maritime Museum, housed in the magnificent former Mariners Church, is a must see in Dún Laoghaire and is scheduled to reopen this season.

There is a great wealth of archeological heritage in the area and this can be experienced through a video presentation and site tour starting from the Dalkey Heritage Centre.

A visit to the county would not be complete without an evening in one of many restaurants that offer a fabulous choice of dishes from traditional Irish fare to wonderful cuisine from around the world. The quality restaurants and the good family eateries of our towns and villages offer a wide choice of ethnic and international dishes and virtually every pub has an extensive menu of fine Irish food. Believe it or not, the county has around 60 pubs and 80 restaurants.

The marina is a five minute stroll from the town centre with all amenities. To get a full listing of all services and facilities, a handy pocket guide has been produced with visitors very much in mind.

The 2007 edition ‘What’s On and What to Do’ is available from the local tourist office.

It is also available on the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Tourism website at www. dlrtourism.com

New waste service Panda Waste has recently added a new feature to its collection service in the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown area with the launch of its Silver Service collection.

Waste collection traditionally has been a service renowned for poor standards with some operators not picking up bins on time, dangerously leaving customers bins on roads and, more importantly, not acting on customer complaints.

As part of the Silver Service, a dedicated customer care team has been put in place for each area of collection and customer complaints and queries are acted upon immediately. The success of the excellent customer service is evident in the amount of local householders that have joined Panda. A staggering 13,000 people have joined since Christmas switching over from the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Council collection. The popularity of the service has forced the company to employ an external call centre to handle the huge volume of calls they have been receiving.

The Butler’s Pantry – on the water The Butler’s Pantry were part of the first Dun Laoghaire Regatta in 2005, keeping all volunteers well fed, but this year they will be looking after volunteers and competitors.

Sailmakers/Repairs Downer Sails Paddy Downer – tel: 280 4286 UK McWilliam Sail Repair, Des McWilliam – tel: 021 483 150 Watson Sail Repairs Philip Watson – 832 6466

VHF/Electrical Autohelm/Raymarine Seamus Fingleton – tel: 086 254 7550 BMG Nicki Potterton – tel: 086 251 9790 Yachtronics (Garmin, etc.) Tony Brown –tel: 086 254 7700

Engine Mechanics Volvo Gerry Nugent – tel: 087 822 2886 Killen Marine Brian Hughes – tel 285 3908 Autohelm Seamus Fingleton – tel: 086 254 7550 Fridge/Ansbacher Heaters Leonard Sheil – tel 460 0322 Various Noel Filgate – 086 874 6161

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To mark this event they have launched a new range called ‘Food on Board’ which is a range of food specifically suited to eating on board.

During the Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta, The Butler’s Pantry can look after your food during racing, on board after racing, at home after racing, or for entertaining during the regatta including canapés for corporate entertaining.

Ordering has never been so easy: order forms will be in your regatta pack; you can download the order from the website: www.thebutlerspantry.ie; or text our dedicated mobile number 087 995 0077.

The Butler’s Pantry representatives will also be in the yacht clubs and on the marina every day to take orders for the following days racing, and if we miss you – don’t worry, we will have a rib in the harbour and on the water between races to keep everyone fed and energised during racing.

Your order will be brought to you before racing packaged in cooler bags and ‘boat ready’ To order in advance of the Regatta, download the order form from website: www.thebutlerspantry.ie

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Car Hire Car hire is available locally, with both free and ‘pay & display’ parking available.

County Car Rentals, Rochestown Avenue, Dún Laoghaire – tel: 235 2030; Enterprise Rent-a-Car, Pottery House, Pottery Road, Dún Laoghaire – tel: 284 7204

A fine tradition returns

Banks AIB, 103 George’s Street, Dún Laoghaire – tel: 284 4055; Bank of Ireland, George’s Street Upper, Dún Laoghaire – tel: 280 0273; First Active, 1 George’s Street Upper, Dún Laoghaire – tel: 284 1274; Ulster Bank, George’s Street, Dún Laoghaire SC – tel: 280 8596.

Hospitals St. Michael’s Hospital, Dún Laoghaire, A+E – tel: 280 6901; St. Columcille’s Hospital, Loughlinstown, A+E – tel: 282 5800

Post Office Main Post Office, Upper George’s Street, Dún Laoghaire. Tel: 230 0140.

Entertainment Cinema Irish Multiplex Cinemas, Lower George’s Street, Dún Laoghaire – tel: 230 1367

Music Pubs Weirs, 88 Lr George’s Street, Dún Laoghaire – tel: 230 4654; Walter’s Traditional Pub – tel: 280 7442

Nightclubs Coast, The Purty Kitchen, Old Dunleary Road – tel: 284 3576; Club 92, Leopardstown Racecourse, Leopardstown tel: 289 5686

Theatres Pavilion Theatre, Marine Road, Dún Laoghaire – tel: 231 2929

Traditional Music Johnnie Fox’s, Glencullen Cross, Glencullen – tel: 295 5647

Sport & Leisure Fitness Centre Monkstown Pool & Fitness Centre, Monkstown Avenue, Monkstown – tel: 230 1460. Fully equipped gymnasium, sauna, swimming pool, creche.

Cycling/Fishing Mike’s Bikes, Patrick Street, Dún Laoghaire – tel: 280 0417.

Bikes for hire, also fishing tackle for hire, and live bait.

Golf/Driving Ranges Stepaside Golf Centre, Enniskerry Road, Stepaside, Dublin 18 – tel: 295 3326. 30-bay floodlit driving range and 18 hole par 3 golf course; Leopardstown Golf Centre, Leopardstown, Foxrock – tel: 289 5341/289 2569. 48-bay floodlit driving range and 18 hole golf course; Dún Laoghaire Golf Club, Eglington Park, Tivoli Road, Dún Laoghaire – tel: 280 3916; Killiney Golf Club, Ballinclea Road, Killiney – tel: 285 2823; Kilternan Golf & Country Club, Enniskerry Road, Kilternan, Co. Dublin – tel: 295 5559; Stepaside Public Golf Course, Enniskerry Road, Stepaside, Co. Dublin – tel: 295 2859; Woodbrook Golf Club, Old Bray Road, Woodbrook, Co. Dublin – tel: 282 4799.

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A south Dublin institution, established in 1828, the Royal Marine Hotel is situated in an elevated site set in four acres of beautifully landscaped gardens overlooking Dublin Bay. The Hotel has been closed since 2004 for an extensive redevelopment project and is delighted to announce that it will be reopening the end of May for what will be a new phase in the history of the Hotel. The ‘new look’ 4-star Hotel will offer guests a host of services and facilities which include 228 well-appointed bedrooms, each room fully air conditioned and furnished with crisp cotton linen duvets, LCD television, mini-fridges, broadband, laptop-sized safes, executive chair/desk, stand alone shower and bath, and much more.

Our accommodation consists of 152 superior rooms, 54 executive rooms with balconies and 22 suites located in the main Victorian building.

Our 12 dedicated meeting rooms set in the old Victorian building have been meticulously restored. Each meeting room has been modified with state-of-the-art equipment and ergonomically equipped furnishings that can be set to meet your requirements. The dedicated meeting rooms can cater for meeting from two to 240 delegates.

The ground floor of the Hotel will be a stunning vision of ‘old and new’ – the infamous ‘Bay Lounge’, complemented by a stylish bar, will remain entrenched in history. We intend to keep the Bay Lounge married to the memories of old by carefully restoring its unique characteristics. Enjoy the age-old tradition of afternoon tea whilst overlooking the beautiful gardens with spectacular views of the harbour.

Hardy’s Bar will incorporate modern design with gastronomic and classical dishes coupled with service full of character and personality. Hardy’s Bar has been designed over two floors which makes it the ideal venue for small intimate parties and private gatherings.

Dún Bistro styled restaurant will combine a modern and picurean menu and a broad eclectic wine list with professional yet friendly service. The Bistro will incorporate stunning views over the harbour with a mix of both modern and period design features.

Our Health Club features an 18-metre pool and cardiovascular exercise facility with state-of-the-art equipment. Spoil yourself in our luxurious Sansana Spa located in the heart of the Royal Marine which is a welcome addition to this rejuvenated hotel. Our Spa features nine treatment rooms including a Razul Chamber, a Hydrotherapy Bath and Dry Flotation Room.

Royal Marine Hotel, Marine Road, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin T: (01) 23000 30, F: (01) 23000 29, E: sales@royalmarine.ie W: www.royalmarine.ie

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Horse Racing Leopardstown Races, Leopardstown Race Course, Foxrock, Dublin 18 – tel: 289 3607.

Bowling Bray Bowl, Quinsboro Road, Bray – tel: 286 4455. 10-pin bowling, Lasergun, Highjinks children’s play area, 30 snooker tables, restaurant; Leisureplex, Old Bray Road, Stillorgan – tel: 288 1656. 18 bowling lanes, coffee bar and restaurant, parking.

The widest choice of routes

Tennis Tennis Centre, Clarinda Park North, Dún Laoghaire – tel: 280 9976, 087 416 6100. Five outdoor public courts, tuition.

Watersports Irish National Sailing School, West Pier, Dún Laoghaire – tel: 284 4195. Large fleet of dayboats and dinghies, RYA/ ISA recognised, adult and junior, beginner to advanced courses available. Monkstown Watersports – tel: 845 1979.

Windsurfing and canoe tuition courses.

Marine Services Riggers Irish Spars and Rigging – Penny Nash tel: 048 (0)28 4482 8882 Masts and Rigging Irl Ltd. - William Laverty 086 389 2614 Gerry Doyle (general): Gerry Doyle 087 677 2779 Pro Rig: Dave Howard 087 298 3333

Try the Dart into Dublin

Useful Numbers Abrakebabra Art of Eating Bits and Pizzas Dún Laoghaire Pharmacy Dun Laoghaire Plumbing Dunphy’s Pub Ecco Shoes Four Star Pizza Frewen & Aylward Gents Outfitters Fusion Hair Design Gastropub Company Hairstyling by Jon Hallmark Cards Harry’s Café Bar Imaginarium Toy Store Inside Out Design Insomnia Coffee Janet’s Coffee House McCaffrey’s Pharmacy McDonalds Majella’s Hair Care Marlowe Cleaners Mizzoni Pizza & Pasta Company O’Connor’s Jewellers Readers Bookshop Royal Marine Hotel Sean McManus Jewellers Snap Printing StockXchange Fashions The Beauty Studio The Real Burger The Tanning Shop Tierney Gift Store Toscana Italian Restaurant Unicare Pharmacy Walter’s Traditional Pub Yung’s Chinese Restaurant 12

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Stena Line is an international transport and travel company operating out of Ireland to Britain and then onto Europe. The company offers motorists the biggest fleet and the widest choice of routes from Ireland to Britain, with ten ferries operating across five routes including the Dun Laoghaire and Dublin Port to Holyhead, Rosslare to Fishguard, Belfast to Stranraer and Larne to Fleetwood routes. The company carries more than three million passengers on its Irish Sea routes each year, more than its rival ferry operators combined. The company’s European network offers service users with 18 different routes on which some 34 ships sail carrying almost 16 million passengers across all routes.

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DART is Dublin’s, and indeed the country’s, greatest public transport success story, and looks forward to bringing thousands of customers to Dun Laoghaire for the Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta.

From the opening of the world’s first commuter railway, from Westland Row (Pearse) to Kingstown (Dun Laoghaire) in 1834, through to the busiest day in the history of the DART, the visit of the USS JFK to Dun Laoghaire in 1996, and to the present day, rail services have always been a part of life in Dun Laoghaire.

The DART services carry over 90,000 customers every day, across the route from Howth and Malahide on the Northside to Bray and Greystones on the south. Such has been the success of the service that in recent years, Iarnród Éireann have invested over €300 million in expanding the capacity of DART. It’s now hard to believe that up until 2000, the DART was operated by the same 80-carriage fleet that began the service in 1984, and the majority of trains for 4-carriages in length at peak times.

Since then, the size of the fleet has been almost doubled to 156 carriages, and with the completion of DART Upgrade, which saw platforms lengthened and accessibility improved, the majority of peak DARTs are now eight-carriage trains.

With an 8-carriage DART capable of carrying over 1,300 people, DART is truly Dublin’s biggest people carrier!

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There are many landmarks on Dublin bay and the East Pier battery with its red top lighthouse is a familiar one for yachtsmen

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Dun Laoghaire’s plans to become the Cowes of the Irish Sea this July remain on target with up to 500 entries for the Volvo-sponsored regatta rolling in from ten different countries.

The increase in entries – with many from the Welsh coast – were confirmed by event chairman Brian Craig who will officially launch the four-day event on July 12.

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The biennial event was revived just two years ago, after an absence of almost 40 years, and is organised by the four Dun Laoghaire waterfront yacht clubs (made up of Dun Laoghaire Motor YC, National YC, Royal Irish YC and Royal St George YC) in association with the two racing clubs of Dublin Bay SC and Royal Alfred YC. In a further boost, Craig has also attracted Grand Prix racers to the bay with four Super Zero entries.

It is expected that the bulk of last year’s three Irish Commodore’s Cup teams will be coming to compete.

“The fact that the Volvo fleets will have such a depth of talent shows it will be one of the quality events of the year. It’s a real bonus for Irish crews who normally travel overseas to have this competition on home waters” said Colm Barrington, Irish skipper of the Ker 52 ‘Magic Glove’, winner of this year’s Key West regatta, who has chartered a TP52 for Dun Laoghaire.

The fact that the Volvo fleets will have such a depth of talent shows it will be one of the quality events of the year

Waiting for the Gun Graham Smith runs his eye over some of the classes at the Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta

Hot Competition Fireball The Fireballs have responded enthusiastically to their invitation to compete in the regatta by providing the single largest dinghy fleet, with an impressive 27 boats due on the starting line, including a couple of UK entries. As a measure of its commitment to the event, the class is incorporating its Open Championship into the third and fourth day’s racing.

Competition is always intense, with probably 15 boats trying to get into the top ten at every event. Names that come to mind for this event include Noel Butler (former Laser II World Champion), Damien Bracken, (ex-GP14 campaigner), Mick Creighton (regular top-3 finisher), and the well-seasoned Louis Smyth (ex-World Commodore Fireball International).

Swallow to make summer Water Wags The term Wags may refer to footballers’ wives and girlfriends in common media-speak but on the sailing front it means the helms and crews of the classic Water Wag, many of whom just happen to be men with their wives and girlfriends!

It should be explained that the venerable Wags don’t have races, they have ‘matches’, as it is considered they are ‘matching’ their respective skills against one another.

By tradition, the most successful Wag in the Dun Laoghaire waterfront regattas combined is awarded ‘The Middleton Howitzer’ trophy.

Since Denis and Margaret Woods have won it in ‘Swallow’ for the past two years, they have every incentive to go for the hat-trick, while others such as David and Sally McFarlane in ‘Moosmie’ will push them all the way.

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Oona to lead 17s Howth 17s When Howth Sailing Club (now Howth YC) was founded in 1895, the first Commodore, Sir Walter Boyd, responded to fellow members’ demands for a one-design keelboat by designing the 17ft waterline gaff-rigged sloop known as the ‘Howth Seventeen’. It is still raced enthusiastically in Howth and is regarded as the oldest surviving one-design keelboat class in the world.

The first five boats raced for the first time in 1898, with ‘Leila’ triumphing over sister boats ‘Rita’, ‘Silver Moon’, ‘Aura’ and ‘Hera’, all of whom still compete today. Over the next 16 years, the fleet grew to the appropriate number of 17, with almost half of them based in Dun Laoghaire in the early 1900s before all ending up back in Howth.

The loss of one boat, wrecked in a storm on a Dun Laoghaire slipway in 1915 and the sinking of ‘Mimosa’ in 1984, reduced the fleet to 15 until the construction of two new boats – ‘Isobel’ and ‘Erica’ - in an AnCO training scheme four years later restored the ‘17’ quota.

The 335 sq ft of sail and the peculiar rig make the sailing of the Seventeen a particular art and one of the most successful ‘artists’ in the class in recent years, Peter Courtney in ‘Oona’, will be the boat to beat when the centenarians make their way across the Bay. It’s one-hundred years since the Seventeens first raced from Kingstown (as it was then known) so it’s highly appropriate that the class should be represented at the 2007 regatta.

Catwalk comes to clubs Saturday is style day at the Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta when the Best Dressed Lady Event is sure to get fashion pulses racing.

A panel of judges from the media and fashion industry will be moving through the four waterfront clubs between 12 and 3.30pm, to select the ten best dressed, who will then take part in the final at the National Yacht Club at 4pm.

The judges will be looking for creativity, glamour, a natural sense of style and essentially, confident chic. The theme is summer, nautical, carefree and fun, and there are great prizes on offer.

A fleet of 25 boats from the Royal Dee will race from Liverpool to Dublin for the Lyver Trophy to coincide with Dun Laoghaire.

The race also doubles as a RORC qualifying race for the Fastnet.

Officers from the Royal Dee have donated one of its major trophies, the Salamander Cup, to promote links between Wales and Dun Laoghaire.

Sailors from the Ribble, Mersey, the Menai Straits, Anglesey, Cardigan Bay and the Isle of Man have to travel three times the distance to the Solent as they do to Dublin bay. This, claims Craig, is one of the major selling points of the Irish event and explains the range of entries from marinas as far away as Yorkshire’s Whitby YC and the Isle of Wight.

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General is the leader Half Ton Classics In its day, the Half Ton Cup was one of the major prizes in world sailing, attracting such notable figures as Paul Elvstrom along the way. All was fine until the early ‘90s when IOR was the dominant handicap system, but when it fell out of favour and CHS took over, the incentive to design and build new boats waned.

A number of Half Ton stalwarts, including Dun Laoghaire’s Shay Moran, saw the opportunity to revive it as a ‘Classics’ event and, with support from Ecover, organised the first event in 2003, won by ‘General Tapioca’ (Phillippe Pilate of Belgium). Two years later, in Brittany, it was won by ‘Gingko’.

Irish boat ‘Blue Berret Pi’ (Connellan/Madigan), one of the few carbon boats, has finished third in the two previous events and goes well in light airs that often feature in Dublin Bay in July. Howth’s Dave Cullen and Eddie Bourke have acquired Elvstrom’s 1971 Cup winner ‘King One’ and are working hard in the pre-event period to be competitive.

Belgian Nicolas Lejeune is taking the event so seriously he came over early to compete in some DBSC races to get a feel for the local conditions, but fellow Belgian Pilate is back with ‘General Tapioca’ and so will be considered a front-runner, especially if it blows a bit.

The Ecover Half Ton Classics Cup starts on Monday 9th July and merges with the main regatta on the Thursday (12th).

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‘Jump Juice’ comes to Dun Laoghaire with the Bell Lawrie Scottish series title under her belt.

Cork to Dominate Class 0 There are some mean racing machines in Class 0 and it would be a brave man to bet on the outcome. The one thing that can probably claimed with some confidence, however, is that a Cork boat (or two or maybe three) will finish at the front of the fleet.

It’s like Commodore’s Cup re-visited and after success in the RCYC Winter Series, Conor and Denise Phelan’s ‘Jump Juice’ may have a little edge on clubmates Anthony O’Leary and Eamonn Rohan.

Until now, no other regatta in the Irish Sea area could claim to have such a reach. Dublin Bay weeks such as this petered out in the 1960s and it has taken almost four decades for the waterfront clubs to come together to produce a spectacle on and off the water to rival Cowes.

“The fact that we are getting such numbers means it is inevitable that it will be compared with Cowes”, Craig said. But there the comparison ends.

“We’re doing our own thing here.

Dun Laoghaire is unique and we

Putting on a show It is no exaggeration to say that Brian Craig and his committee have put in two years work to stage this year’s regatta. There are over 240 volunteers involved in the running of event and without them it could never happen. The organising committee is (from left): Tim Goodbody, Michael O’Leary, Owen McNally, Tim Costello, Brian Craig, Ronan Beirne, Ailbe Millerick, Ciara Dowling, David O’Brien, Michael McHugo and Phil Smith

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are making a very special effort to welcome visitors from abroad”, Craig added.

Although the inaugural event suffered from a lack of breeze, festivities ashore captured the hearts of sailors who through a special survey pressed for its return this July. Packed social events are strung along the four clubs on Dun Laoghaire’s waterfront – just six miles from Dublin’s city centre – and the event has already been dubbed ‘Leopardstown on sea’ by social diarists.

O’Leary has replaced his championship-winning Corby ‘Antix’ with the black-hulled Dubois design known previously as ‘Dark Angel’ and ‘Nimmo’ and now called ‘Antix Dubh’.

Practice at the Bell Lawrie Scottish Series can move O’Leary and crew up a notch in the rankings while Rohan’s ‘Blondie III’ is certainly in contention.

Dublin entrants keen on upsetting the Cork bandwagon will include Roy Dickson’s ‘Rosie’ and Tim Costello’s ‘Tiamat’. Watch this space, very carefully!

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A total of 25 classes will race over six courses on Dublin Bay under ISAF international race officer Alan Crosbie. The majority are cruiser classes but there is also room for Ireland’s newest one design class – the SB3 – that has become the biggest sportsboat class almost overnight with numbers reaching 70 nationally since the class was formed in November.

Locals should shine

Already entries for the week, which runs from July 12 to 15, are likely to top the 500 mark. The fact that there are 2,500 marina berths alone in North Wales gives an indication of the size of the organisers ambitions.

Disappointingly, there are very few Howth or Malahide entries in Class 3 and since they have dominated the class in recent years, it opens the door for a local boat to shine.

And it’s not just new boats that are racing – Craig is very much aware of the heritage of an event that stretches back to the early 1900s.

Dun Laoghaire’s Royal Alfred YC is the oldest amateur yacht club in the world but the absence of a club house over its 150year existence has not stopped it from being a major force in world sailing. It was the prime mover behind the establishment of the Yacht Racing Association (now the RYA), the world’s first yacht racing authority. The RAYC also claims that its own club rules of 1857 formed the basis of the racing rules of sailing today. The RAYC is using Dun Laoghaire Week to celebrate its sesquincentennial anniversary.

The Super Zero class will have four entries this year including Colm Barrington’s new TP52. Our photo from the 2005 Regatta shows Eamon Conneely’s ‘Patches’ crossing Barrington’s fifty footer in an inshore race

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The two Impalas – ‘Whistlin’ Dixie’ (O’Sullivan/Keelan) and ‘Huggy Bear’ (Doyle/Byrne) – could come good over the four days while Ross Doyle’s Bolero ‘Two Step’ is no slouch.

Another Bolero 26, Andy Dunn’s ‘Tango’ from Douglas on the Isle of Man is the dark horse in the 28-boat fleet, while Basil MacMahon’s well-raced ‘Holly’ from Howth could surprise a few if the wind conditions allow.

Clean sheet in class SB3s The overnight sensation of the Laser SB3 – over 50 boats introduced here in the blink of an eyelid – sees its first really serious big fleet engagement at Dun Laoghaire with over 35 entries. And since there haven’t been any worthwhile events before it to gauge form, it will be down to which of the crews settles down quicker to the intricacies of the new sportsboat to gain a podium finish.

Sean Craig has proven to be highly versatile in various craft so will certainly be one to watch with ‘Slarti Bartfast’ as will the Galavan/Patt combination on ‘Flash’ and Algeo/Cooke on ‘Downhill Junky’. The single largest fleet in the regatta, it has drawn interest from as far afield as the UK, Lough Ree, Cultra and Arklow.

Star man to sparkle IDRA 14 Having celebrated its 60th anniversary last year with aplomb, the IDRA 14 Class has a buoyant fleet of 17 boats representing all the clubs associated with it. Alan Carr from Sutton won the Open Championships and then the Nationals last year in ‘Starfish’ so he is clearly the man to beat but Frank Hamilton of DMYC won the Class Northern title in 2006 so there may yet be a local winner.

‘Ruff’ looks good enough Ruffian A dozen or more Ruffians are expected on the starting line at the Regatta. While racing is invariably close in the fleet, Derek and Carol Mitchell and the crew on ‘Ruff Nuff’ from the Royal St George YC may be installed as favourites to win the series, as they are the current Irish Champions.

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A keelboat class – the Howth 17 – which was first sailed from Kingstown 100 years ago, and which is now based exclusively in the north Dublin port of Howth is returning to mark its important birthday.

The world’s oldest one design dinghy class, the Waterwag, has been competing on Dublin Bay since 1886 and the fleet is expected to attract one of the biggest turnouts of any of the five competing dinghy classes at the event.

Of course, not all of the North Wales fleet boats are racing yachts but that doesn’t appear to slow the growth of interest in the Dun Laoghaire event.

Already a cruise in company of 20 boats, known as the Goodwill raid, is bound for the port just to take in some of the festivities planned at its four waterfront yacht clubs.

Whisper may roar Dragons As we went to press, not all the usual suspects in the Dragon class had entered, as they surely will, since the event would be an ideal taster for the forthcoming Worlds in Dublin Bay in September.

Of those who had entered by the discounted entry fee deadline, the ones to watch include Mick Cotter on ‘Whisper’, Lavery and Maguire in ‘Das Boot’ and Richard Goodbody, winner of last year’s Southern Championships on ‘Diva’.

Howth sets pace Etchells It’s a similar story in the Etchells where the leaders of last year’s pack are not in the frame (yet) leaving it to Howth boats such as Simon Knowles’ ‘Jabberwocky’ or the Bourke/ Murnane team on ‘Eitlean’ to set the pace, unless Dun Laoghaire’s Anthony Shanks can put local knowledge to use on ‘Muddy Paws’.

Title to stay South Squibs The Northerners who usually dominate Squib racing on this island have yet to be persuaded to travel to Dublin Bay so it’s up to local boats and some from Howth to battle it out for the honours. For a change, the local boats constitute the majority of the entries but Emmet Dalton on ‘Klipbok’ from the northern side of the Bay may be the one to watch on this occasion.

30-Something looks good 31.7 The Beneteau 31.7 fleet is an ample 20 boats or so, largely from the Dun Laoghaire clubs, from which current Irish Champion John Hall of the National on ’30 Something’ would be expected to set the pace. If the honours are to go outside the locality, look at ‘Tigger’ (Cassidy/ Mulhall) from Howth, or the only UK visitor, Jason and Debbie Corlett’s ‘Eauvation’ from the Isle of Man. See our 2007 entry list starting on page 54

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The Ecover Half Ton Classics Cup will race within Dun Laoghaire Week and it has also been boosted by an entry of 25 classics.

Competing classes Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta July 12–15 2007 Super 0 Cruiser 0 Cruiser 1 Cruiser 2 Cruiser 3 Cruiser 5 Beneteau 31.7 Half Ton Sigma 33

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Patches Antix Blue Berret Pi Whistlin Dixie Maxelle Destrier Checkmate (1st Scratch) Shillelagh Curraglas Ruff n Ready Susele Just for Fun Yonka Glenluce It just gets Better Femme Fatale Endeavour Aura Blue Eyes Delos II Swallow Bad Girl Physical Grafetti

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The first Russian-flagged entry for the Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09 will visit Dun Laoghaire during this year’s four-day Regatta. The entry is currently training in a V60 which will not race in the bay, but will be used for corporate charter work.

Backed by Oleg Zherebtsov, a St Petersburg businessman, the yacht will be skippered for the 2008-09 race by former Austrian Olympic Star sailor Andreas Hanakamp. Managing the team will be Michael Woods, who was director of race cperations for the Volvo Ocean Race 2001-02.

The team plans to launch its new Volvo Open 70 in April next year to allow a full programme of sail testing and crew training in the North Atlantic before the start in Alicante, Spain in October 2008.

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Russian Volvo entry for Dun Laoghaire

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Brian Craig presents the prizes to inaugural class winners in 2005

Volvo drives Irish sailing News that Galway is set to become the first European stopover for the Volvo Ocean Race 2008/09 cements Volvo’s position as one of sailing’s major sponsors in this country.

From sponsoring Optimist sailing in the early 1990s through to the 2007 Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta, via support for ‘Northabout’ on its westward polar circumnavigation in 2005, Volvo has emerged as a key supporter for the sport.

The Volvo Ocean Race itself first took off in 1973, when as the Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race, it was the first ever global crewed yacht race.

Volvo first became involved with the race in 1997, and since 2001, the race has been called The Volvo Ocean Race, but the ingredients of the competition remain the same – ingenuity, skill and sheer courage.

The stopover in Galway is not only an exciting prospect for local sailors, but also for local business. The 2005-06 start from Vigo, in North-western Spain, generated E61 million for the Galicia region. Confirmed stopovers for 2008/09 racee so far are Boston, Galway, China and India. d il from www.volvooceanrace.org For further details

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Action from the 2006 Ecover Half Ton Cup at Dinard, France

Half Ton racing returns to Bay A gap of over 15 years will be bridged in July with the running of the third Ecover Half Ton Classic Cup as part of the Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta, writes Shay Moran It’s been over a decade and a half since a ‘Ton Cup’ event was held in Ireland - the last Irish person to hold the Half Ton Cup was Gordon Maguire from Howth who won the event in ‘Innovation Group’ in 1990.

The July event will kick off with a practice race on Monday and event races from Tuesday to Saturday. A coastal race is scheduled for Friday.

The ‘Irish Open Half Ton Cup’ was held annually for many years. Sean Flood (of ‘Country Girl’ fame) holds the last Irish ‘Open Half Ton Cup’ which he won in ‘Celebration Chubb’ (real name – ‘Harmony’) in 1988. The event was hosted by the RStGYC. Sean’s crew 28

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included Mark Pettit, Neil Love, Des Flood and Johnny McCann from Cork.

Sean has very kindly donated this trophy to the class for presentation to the best Irish boat overall this year. Harmony is now owned by Tino Hyland and renamed for the 2007 event as Harmony Henry Lloyd!

That same year Tony Mullins with former RSGYC Commodore, Shay Moran, as tactician won the cup for best amateur crewed boat in ‘King One’.

The class was very strong between 1968 and 1988. During this time many Half Tonners were both designed and/or built in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. They ranged from

‘One-Off’ designs or prototypes to production cruiser racers. The boats varied in size between 29’0” and 32’0” overall and being designed to the International Offshore Rule (IOR) were considered to be a manageable and economical size.

Many remarkable boats were built and sailed to great success in Ireland during this period. Among the more memorable was ‘Brainstorm’. Designed by Brian O’Brien Kennedy (designer of the IDRA 14) in 1973, she was home built

by Donal Conlon and Bert O’Mahony in plywood in a shed on Lough Key in Co. Roscommon. This was the most economical material for one-off boats at the time.

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Brainstorm incorporated all the new ideas of the day – she had two rudders, one near the bow and the other at the stern. The bow rudder or ‘canard’ which was quite small in surface area was controlled by a pegstay mechanism in the cockpit to give the hull lift. This idea is still being used by some America’s Cup boats today. What is most remarkable is the fact that the winner of the Half Ton Classics Cup 2005 in Dinard was a similar hull form to ‘Brainstorm’ although with a more conventional sail plan and mast location.

However, from 1988 onwards the Half Ton class slowly ran out of steam as only the latest designs and high cost prototypes had a chance of winning. As a result, many owners made the shift from expensive IOR designs to one design hulls and more userfriendly racing rules, resulting in the last Half Ton Cup being held in 1993 in Bayona in Spain.

The idea for reviving the class under the name of ‘Half Ton Classics Cup’ was proposed by Bert Janssen of Belgium and Didier Dardot from France (current president of UNCL). Ecover agreed to sponsor the class and the first Ecover Half Ton Classics Cup regatta, hosted in 2003 by the KYCN, Nieuwport,

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Belgium, attracted over 35 boats from five countries.

The event was won by ‘General Tapioca’, an optimized boat from the board of Jean Berret (of ‘Blue Berret Pi’ fame). In 2005, however, optimization was turned on its heels. This time the unmodified and more traditional design of Superchallenger ‘Gingko’ won the cup in Dinard which proves the longevity of half ton design yet again.

Ecover, the eco friendly products company, is once again sponsoring the event this year, and we are very pleased to have them on board once again as our main sponsor. Other partners engaged in supporting the programme are Dublin Port Company, R.A. Burke Shipping Group and Stenaline.

A full social programme has been put in place for the participants who will be dining and entertained at a different venue each evening. On Wednesday, there will be an evening of craic’ at the Royal St George, while a gala dinner is scheduled for Friday evening at the Royal Irish Yacht Club where renowned Half Ton designer Ron Holland will be the guest speaker.

We wish the sailors in all the fleets, and particularly the visitors to the Bay, an enjoyable time.

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Sailors return to the Royal St. George YC after a regatta race by club ferry

At the heart of Sailing Dun Laoghaire has always had something special – and the 2007 Regatta simply adds to the attraction Old Dunleary, Kingstown, Dún Laoghaire – call it what you like but this harbour on the south shore of Dublin Bay has always had something special.

I first came to know it in the 1950s. In fact, we were in town during a regatta.

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league of its own. The harbour may have been somewhat exposed to Nor’easters, but by comparison with the anchorages we knew, it was well sheltered. And the sheer convenience and style of the waterfront clubs seemed the height of sophistication.

In those days, there wasn’t a marina in the length and breadth of Ireland, indeed there were few enough anywhere in the world. But in Dún Laoghaire the traditional method of boat access via a club launch had been raised to an art

form, and yacht numbers moored in the harbour were at a civilised level.

The launches in turn landed you right into the heart of one of the clubs. It was a few years later, when we got involved with university sailing, that we became fully aware of the integrated nature of the Dublin Bay sailing scene. Each of the waterfront clubs had adopted one of the colleges – the sailors of Trinity were under the umbrella of the George, while UCD sailed from the National. Most of their sailing was in Fireflies, though

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Mermaids were also used, and the system worked very well indeed.

The convenience and style of the setup was well demonstrated in 1960, when the Irish Dinghy Racing Association staged Dinghy Week in Baltimore. Road trailers were pretty basic in those days, but the college sailors of Dún Laoghaire had no need of them. They simply trailed the Fireflies on launching trolleys the few yards from the club dinghy parks to some flatbed railway trucks in Dún Laoghaire station, and the entire fleet was delivered intact to Baltimore Station via the main line and the old West Cork line.

That Baltimore station became the Glenans base, but back in 1960 its harbourside location made for easy launching for the Dún Laoghaire Fireflies.

At their home port, the senior sailors in all the Dún Laoghaire clubs gave freely of their time in helping to run the

university sailing. This was a mutually beneficial arrangement. College students could usefully be recruited to sail offshore with legendary figures such as Douglas Heard, Rory O’Hanlon and Ninian Falkiner, and thus the arts of cruising were added to the skills of team racing and the expertise which came from involvement with the one design fleets.

Things were so good that inevitably there was resistance to change and development. A sailing centre whose activities had been recorded by marine artists of the calibre of Kendrick and Beechey tended towards conservatism.

Dún Laoghaire continued to produce sailors of prodigious talent, but it was from a harbour which seemed increasingly old-fashioned. Marinas opened elsewhere in Ireland, but the M-word was barely whispered on Dublin Bay. In a world which was changing with sometimes unpleasant speed, this was

part of its charm. The clubs themselves adapted with innovative skills, while honouring their own time-honoured ways. But once the marina was opened in 2001, new concepts could be allied to the best of tradition. The notion of a four-day Dún Laoghaire Regatta, combining all clubs, is visionary. When the inaugural regatta was held in 2005, it had the flavour of something that today’s sailing folk enjoyed very much indeed. The 2007 version looks set to break all records. Enjoy!

Picture (from cover of ‘Royal St George History’, and also cover of Peter Pearson’s ‘Dún Laoghaire Kingstown’) – Enshrined in art – The Royal St George YC Regatta of 1871, by Richard Brydges Beechey

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The boats have changed but the scene is the same. The 2007 regatta continues a fine tradition in Dun Laoghaire’s yachting history

Regatta with a Past Racing festivals have been part and parcel of Dublin Bay for well over a century, writes W.M. Nixon Dublin Bay is a handsome sailing amphitheatre, with offshore turning marks – lighthouses, light floats and navigation buoys – within easy reach at sea. Thus a variety of courses can be set to provide the spectacle of large yachts racing in sight from the shore, yet for those crews who demand more challenging sailing conditions, a genuine offshore element can be added to the racing in a Dún Laoghaire regatta.

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A vital factor in the overall socionautical interaction which is essential to provide a successful regatta is the nature and the status of the port hosting the event. When Kingstown emerged from Old Dunleary for development during the 19th century on the south shore of Dublin Bay, it became one of the largest artificial harbours in the world.

Its massive structure indicated that this would be a place of considerable significance in the official life of Ireland.

The architecture along the port’s expanding waterfront, and in the town beside it, was restrained yet impressive. It took its style from Dublin city, and clearly stated that this was where Dublin society, to the highest and most fashionable level, would formally interact with the sea. And Kingstown’s special position as the focal point for officialdom and high society was reinforced by several helpful coincidences.

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A chartlet of courses to be sailed in the 1886 regatta

The initial impetus to build the harbour had come from the need to provide an asylum port for sailing ships in difficulty in gale conditons – particularly easterly gales – in Dublin Bay, as they attempted to negotiate the entrance to Dublin Port. And the new harbour certainly saved many ships and lives. But even as the long work of completing it was under way, shipping itself was changing.

Steam power was taking over from sail.

And increased trade and improving technology meant that resources were available for better dredging of the entrance to Dublin itself.

Sea travel was becoming safer, and though some tragic shipping accidents still occurred, Dún Laoghaire’s primary role as an asylum harbour was declining in relative importance. So although it continued as a significant ferry port, it also had great potential for other uses in recreational and ceremonial matters.

In the broader Irish context, other factors combined to encourage this. In the Dublin area, Dublin Port handled virtually all sea trade. In Belfast Lough,

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the 19th century growth of Belfast city as an industrial and ship-building centre meant that recreational boating was well down the line of priorities. And in the 19th century, having displaced Kinsale as a naval base, Cork Harbour was continuing to build on its position as Ireland’s premier naval and liner port – a serious business.

But meanwhile, up in Dublin Bay there was this fine big harbour with its impressive waterfront yacht clubs, conveniently near a fashionable city with a large leisure class. To any thoughtful observer, it was abundantly clear that one of the functions of the new harbour at Kingstown had to be the staging of regattas in all their finery, with boat and sailing races of all kinds, bands playing, flags flying, and the great and the good very visibly on parade to celebrate the achievements of sportsmen at sea.

And that’s the way it was. The first recorded regatta in Kingstown was held in 1828. With Ireland’s first railway connecting Dublin city to the new

harbour in 1834, spectators flocked to such events. Regattas at Kingstown became the height of fashion, and although boat numbers may have been modest in today’s terms, many of the craft involved were of impressive size.

As sailing developed through the 19th century, the top yachts went on circuit to all the major regattas, with Kingstown contributing one of the most successful performers, the legendary 1884-built cutter ‘Irex’, owned and sailed by whiskey magnate John Jameson of the Royal St George Yacht Club.

But even as the ‘Irex’ was cutting a swathe through the ranks of the big racing cutters at home and abroad, the sport of sailing was undergoing major changes, and several new concepts emerged from the growth of sailing within Kingstown Harbour. In 1870 the locally-based Royal Alfred Yacht Club proposed a definition of amateur or Corinthian status, and a codification of the sailing rules which ultimately resulted in the establishment of the Yacht Racing Asssociation.

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Then in 1884 Dublin Bay Sailing Club was established to encourage small boat racing. Very quickly – by 1887 – this led to the foundation of the world’s first One Design Class, the Dublin Bay Water Wags. Amateur sailors in small inexpensive boats racing purely for fun in a regular summerlong programme – surely this was a whole world away from the razzmatazz, the high spend and the conspicuous display of a socially-stratified regatta organised by a grand club in the traditional style?

Yet much as the new breed of sailing enthusiasts enjoyed their increasingly popular weekly racing, a major annual regatta was still central to the programme of any self-respecting club, however humble its origins. And over the years, the administrators of Dublin Bay’s sailing clubs have given much thought to adding an extra appeal to their yearly regattas.

The first attempt at some sort of Dublin Bay Regatta Week may have been as long ago as 1860, but it was only a limited success. Perhaps it was an idea before its time. Certainly the great waterfront clubs took a fierce pride in having complete and exclusive control of their main events. After all, many of their members lived on country estates, thus there was much more to a regatta than getting in as much sailing as possible. On the contrary, sailing was only a part of it – a regatta was sailing’s focal point for a much larger social network.

However, times moved on. In 1898, the inventor Marconi (his mother was a Jameson) sent radio reports on the Royal St George regatta from a tugboat on Dublin Bay, a technological first. And even among keelboats, the novel idea of one design racing was beginning to catch on. With uniformity in design in boats of the calibre of the new Dublin Bay 25s and Dublin Bay 21s, the notion that there might be some uniformity in regattas also had growing appeal.

But barely had the 20th century got underway before the world was dragged into the destruction of the Great War of 1914–18.

In Ireland, the War of Independence continued into the 1920s.

In such uncertain times, innovation and development in sailing administration were very much on the back burner.

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Celebrating 150 years of sailing Some of today’s sailors may be aware that the sport of sailing for fun started four Ailbe Millerick on a special birthday centuries for the Royal ago in Alfred YC. Holland, and it’s from the Dutch word we have the funny spelling of the word ‘yot’. Yet for the first 250 years you could call yourself a ‘yachtsman’ and never haul on a halyard or even touch a tiller. That changed 150 years ago.

It was the pioneering sailors of Dublin Bay who really started the sport as we know it today. We take for granted that we actually sail our own boats ourselves. But this was once a huge and seriously challenging innovation. So when the members of the Royal Alfred Yacht Club of Dublin Bay pioneered this practice and founded their club in 1857 on this amateur principle, they started a trend which has endured and indeed has become the world standard. In that sense alone, all active sailing clubs, even ones founded much earlier, are now unconsciously following the lead of the Royal Alfred. We no n longer an’– – call ourselves ‘Corinthian’– au usse meaning amateur– because practically everyone is now ow sailing sai for fun and not for pay. y.

Our Royal Alfred did much mu uch more m morree to shape the amateur and a an ur sport. p po participating format of our In Dublin Bay in the 1860s 60 and and 70s, its members followed we pio er through with a series off pioneering moves which made it the premier yacht racing club off its i time. Its prestige was measured asu su d crudely by the total of its annual ua al prize money, by which yardstick it was frequently in thee top t three th hr clubs, and actually No.1. a d in i 1877, 1 Its ‘firsts’ included de the hee first regular single and handed nd double o races, the first swimming im g race for yachtsmen in sailing clothes, and the World’s First Offshore Of Racing programme.

There were occasional Royal Alfred offshore races between the Clyde and Ulster but more importantly, and for a continuous 58 years, regular annual races across the Irish Sea to Holyhead and back, long before the Royal Ocean Racing Club was even founded.

The club set other standards.

Other yacht clubs adopted the Royal Alfred’s time allowance tables to compute corrected times for handicap races.

Perhaps the two biggest individual contributions by the Royal Alfred to the sport were the specific triggering of the foundation in 1874 of the Yacht Racing Association (later the Royal Yachting Association), the first national authority, and the drafting of the first agreed yacht racing rules.

Thus the Royal Alfred’s flag officers, George Thompson and Henry Sharman-Crawford, are credited with the authorship of the basic rules of the sport. Many times modified and redrafted, these are the basic ISAF rules by which we still sail today, 133 years later. Incidentally ISAF is only 100 years old this year and the RAYC committee boasts two International Judges, continuing the tradition of race management at the highest levels.

Thus while other yacht clubs may claim seniority in their founding date, the Royal Alfred Yacht Club has a far greater and well de deserved place in contributing to and nd d moulding the global development of our sport. So de elo lo when hen you sail in Dublin Bay, remember re er the pioneers of yacht racing in wh whose wake you are following g and and who who shaped ap your yo ou sportt on these waters: wa er the he Ro R l Corinthian members of thee Royal yea Alfred Yacht Club, this year rthda ay celebrating its 150th birthday.

The Royal Alfred Sesquicentennial nttennia al Open Regatta is being held on Bloomsday, June 16, for all Dun Laoghaire and Howth classes.

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Clubs found it reassuring to continue their annual regattas as they had done in the old days, staging them in the hope that perhaps some of the great racing yachts of the time could fit a Dublin Bay visit into their busy annual programme, just as the Royal cutter ‘Britannia’ had done in the past.

Even if lively new organisations such as the Irish Dinghy Racing Association introduced the popular concept of a Dinghy Week in the late 1940s, the notion of a Regatta Week for all boat classes was approached warily.

However, seagoing One Designs such as the Dublin Bay 24s were able to contemplate sailing as a class in events such as Clyde Week, though the fact this once-great regatta series had already been shortened from a fortnight to a week became a reminder of the precarious nature of events.

Yet although the Irish economy seemed in a state of terminal decline in the 1950s, the concept of Dublin Bay Regatta Weeks lived on to involve all the one design classes and handicap cruisers. But economics intervened. In 1956, several leading yachts were sold away from Ireland, and, except for dinghy racing, Irish sailing ran out of steam until the 1960s when there were a couple of Dublin Bay weeks.

Then when regatta weeks re-appeared in Dún Laoghaire, it was in a new format and under the overall aegis of a new body, the Irish Sea Offshore Racing Association. Brought together in 1971 from an amalgamation of established and new offshore racing groups, ISORA at its height in the 1970s and 1980s could number more than 100 boats racing regularly in its season-long programme.

And fleet numbers were even better in its biennial race weeks, which came every four years or so to Dublin Bay. It was fun while it lasted, but people’s sailing tastes began to change. Other interests began to take up time, and offshore racing was a very timeconsuming activity. And in any case, an ISORA Week in Dublin Bay was only of limited value for local sailors, for it didn’t include the dinghies and local inshore one design keelboats, which are the very backbone of Dún Laoghaire sailing.

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Our Clubhouse is the Bay For over a hundred years and more, in the incomparable setting of Dublin Bay, with Howth to the north and the mountains of Dublin and Wicklow to the south, Dublin Bay Sailing Club has promoted the pleasures of racing in small boats.

Not that small, some of them, nowadays. Among the Club’s near-400 yachts are some large, high-tech ocean-racers, which can (and do) travel to foreign waters.

Then there are more modest dinghies, which are raced by hardy souls, mostly youngsters, but quite a few who are not so young. Some can be raced single-handed, like the Laser dinghy. Others, such as 40-foot cruiser-racers, require a large and competent crew if they are to be raced competitively.

The Club’s most enduring characteristic is its consistency.

Year in, year out, from April to September, three days a week, with unfailing regularity, its race officers have been sounding off guns, dipping flags, and sending its yachts off on races that will take them to all corners of the Bay - east to the Burford Bank and the Kish, south to Dalkey, and back westwards to the Poolbeg, Seapoint and Salthill. ry before b Its roots lie in the century fes fe e last, when some local professional uree of o the th people, despising the lure big yachts, set up a club for for boats fo boa o that would be within thee reach each ac of all pockets. (That was an a ambition m tio mbition S me m of that didn’t last very long). Some w re its subsequent members were important people in their eir day. da Erskine Childers was a member em r – d not the author of ‘The Riddle off w the Sands’ but his son, who was afterwards the President off Ireland. Sean McBride, too, o was ass a member, though not a very active activ to o one. Another earned a Victoria ng g and d Cross, dying for ‘King r o n a foreign battlefield.

Country’ on Yet another, whose os career a ar spanned all political ica divisions, si was ur off Ireland, a a canon of the Church writer of popular fiction and an important figure in n the Irish language movement.

The members are partial, no doubt, but most of them believed – and still believe – that there is no sport on earth to equal the joy of sailing a well-found yacht in a good stiff breeze. Apart from the sheer exhilaration of driving a boat through the water, using the power and agility of your own body and your knowledge of the action of wind and water on hull and sails, it’s a marvellous way to learn and appreciate all manner of things: the ways of the sea, the coming and going of the tides, navigation, meteorology, and the crafts of the boat builder.

Most of all, it’s a way of learning about the heritage of the sea, an ancient vocabulary, a different way of looking at the world.

And then, there’s the camaraderie – the company of friends, the social life that goes with racing, the excitement of competition. A member put it well, in one of the Club’s publications: “Social position, politics or religion are inadmissible considerations, but love of the sport and a good laugh now and then are essential qualifications”.

The Club has no premises to administer, no moorings to allocate. Its value lies in what it is - a sporting body that runs yacht-racing events on behalf of all the sailing community of south county Dublin. Its membership is drawn for the most part from yacht clubs along the Dun Laoghaire waterfront, from all fi fields and walks of life: prominent commercial om figures, modest businessmen and not-so-modest b n vil servants, builders, accouncivil ta tants, nurses, gardai, housewives, engineers, builders, ui uil army officers, lawyers, airline pilots, l p ot doctors, do s, journalists, rnal and computer com mpu r experts ex rts by tthe score.

The Dublin Bay sailing season is one of those unchanging things hin ng which goes on from year to year, ar, as predictable as the seasons, as familiar as Christmas…

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Yacht flags were faithfully reproduced in full colour for the regatta programmes a hundred years ago

Yet with sailing patterns continuing to change, in recent years sailing folk have increasingly questioned the established pattern of each Dún Laoghaire club having its own regatta on a separate weekend. In effect, this completely blocks out four weekends in an Irish sailing season which, realistically, is at its height for only about ten weekends.

But perhaps the most significant factor in today’s equation is the sheer number of sailing folk living within easy reach of their boats in Dún Laoghaire harbour.

In times past, regattas were special because the wealthy yacht owners travelled up to Dublin to join their yachts for a major occasion. But when you get local

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fleets of regatta proportions turning out two and three times a week for the ‘ordinary’ Dublin Bay SC programme, surely it makes sense to design a regatta to reflect this, rather than artificially trying to re-create an old-style social festival?

Dún Laoghaire itself, you’d have a fleet which many regattas would envy. But of course the signs are that all the clubs in the Greater Dublin area will be there in strength, and top boats are coming from Galway, Cork and Belfast Lough too.

In other words, what would market research suggest? The word on the waterfront suggests a four-day event, starting on a Thursday afternoon, and with all racing wrapped up by lunchtime Sunday. And that’s the way it’s going to be with Dún Laoghaire Regatta. It won’t break the time bank, you maximise the sport and sociability, and it takes less than four days out of our precious summer. Even if the entries came only from

It’s remarkable that an event of this nature can be envisaged within what is virtually an urban setting. Yet in other sports there are precedents for it, and we find a very good example in the same affluent South Dublin region which embraces Dún Laoghaire.

For this new regatta is shaping up nicely to be Leopardstown-on-Sea...

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Acknowledgements The Volvo Dún Laoghaire Regatta Committee (VDLRC) wishes to thank the Dublin Bay Sailing Club, the Royal Alfred Yacht Club, Marina Marketing & Management Ltd., and Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council for facilities provided, and for the co-operation of Captain David Dignam, the Dublin Port Harbour Master, and Captain Jim Carter, the Dún Laoghaire Harbour Master.

Our sincere thanks to all who have loaned flagships and mark boats and everyone both afloat, ashore and all the club’s personnel who worked to make the event possible and in particular our sponsors: Volvo Car Ireland Failte Ireland Affinity Insurance Brokers The Butler’s Pantry

Knight Frank Ganly Walters Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council

The Volvo Dún Laoghaire Regatta Committee would also like to thank the following companies and organisations for their generous contribution: Dubarry Dublin Port Ftizpatricks Castle Hotel Irish Business Supplies Windmill Leisure MGM Marine Royal Marine Hotel BT Open Link Stena Sea Link Heineken Lager Helly Hansen Digi Com Kelloggs Fruit ‘n’ Fibre

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Lucozade Sports Drinks Naval Service Brindley Advertising Ltd/Pete Evans Print Bureau Irish Lights Howth Yacht Club RNLI Naval Reserves St. John’s Ambulance Jacob Fruitfield Irish Food Group Viking Marine Western Marine

W.M. Nixon, Irish Independent David O’Brien Colin McEndoo, Angela Fealy and Anne Bergin – Afloat magazine Suzy Addis, RStGYC, Social Programme Graphics

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Runners and Riders 500 entries 25 classes

Entries published are those received to May 30th

1720 IRL 1772 IRL 1769 IRL 1773 GBR 1715 GBR 1702L GBR 1719L

Heroes and Villains Hoot Yoke HWBC Inflexion Inflexion 2

John Harrington Con Murphy Cathy McAleavey Ronan Downing Inflexion Managers Inflexion Managers

Ballyholme Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club Royal Thames Yacht Club Royal Thames Yacht Club

Alburn Panthera Island Fling Flash Glove

Robert Milhench Benny Kelly Paul F. Winkelmann Colm Barrington

Ballyholme Yacht Club Royal Corinthian Yacht Club Royal Hong Kong Royal Irish Yacht Club

Super 0 GBR 64R GBR 1997L GBR 88R IRL 5252

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Beneteau 31.7 GBR 7221T IRL 7130 FRA 19224 IRL 6662 IRL 1565 IRL 2970 IRL 11751 IRL 3007 IRL 3107 IRL 993 IR 6909 IRL 1742 IRL 2474 IR 3170 IRL 2004 7317 IRL 70400 IRL 1317 1041 IRL 1301 IRL 1740 IRL 5317

Eauvation Aoife M Tigger Bluefin Two Prospect Kernach Spailpin 30 Something Levante Prima Noche Extreme Reality Dies Irae Flying Machine Sosumi Magic Attitude Extremity Violet Flame Avalon After U Too Levana Fiddly Bits

Jason and Debbie Corlett Pat Martin Cassidy/Mulhall Bryson O’Callaghan Chris Johnston Eoin O’Drioll Joseph Buckley John Hall Brian Leyden Patrick Kennedy Patrick McSwiney Patrick D. Rowan O’Gallagher Doorly Kennedy Barry McCabe D. O’Sullivan/D. Espey David Owens Paul D`Alton Brendan Murphy James Fox Michael Blayney Jean Mitton K. Byrne/B. Quigley

Douglas Bay Yacht Club Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club Howth Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George YC/National YC

Spirit of Jacana eXaltation Bateleur 97 Playing Ft$e Tiamat Rosie Tiger Geronimo Moondance Tsunami Jump Juice Antix Dubh Blondie III Deliverance 2 Lively Lady King Louie Legally Brunette Xpletive Nexus

Alan, Bruce and James Douglas David McFarland Chris Bonar Jonathon Anderson Tim Costello Roy Dickson Stephen Harris Norbert Reilly J. McIntyre/P. Wright Vincent Farrell Conor/Denise Phelan A. O’Leary Eamonn Rohan Charlie Jones Derek Martin Malcolm P. Thorpe C. Drohan/P. Egan Mike Crompton Mike Budd

Carrickfergus Sailing Club Carrickfergus Sailing Club Clyde Cruising Club Clyde Cruising Club Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club Howth Yacht Club Howth Yacht Club Howth Yacht Club Lloyds Yacht Club National Yacht Club Royal Cork Yacht Club Royal Cork Yacht Club Royal Cork Yacht Club Royal Dee Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Solent Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club South Caernavonshire Yacht Club South Caernavonshire Yacht Club

Cruiser 0 IRL 1335 IRL 3550 GBR 9369 R GBR 603 R IRL 12345 IRL 789 IRL 4077 USA 120 2198 C IRL 4007 IRL 2007 IRL 8833 IRL 3008 GBR 8725T IRL 1644 GBR 339R 4052 GBR 3550L GBR 9835T 56

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Cruiser 1 3405 IRL 4001 GBR 9200N IRL 3506 IRL 1357 3201C IRL 3607 GBR 2912R IR 3531 IRL 3470 IRL 1347 GBR 8330 IRL 33333 IRL 11109 GBR 8296 IRL 37737 IRL 29832 IRL 811 IRL 3471 GBR 8237T IRL 738 IR 2035 IRL17195 IRL725 IRL1104 IRL29029

Jaeronimo Elantic Rogue Toad Just Jasmin Humdinger Troika Baily TBA Genesis Flashback Rocky Gwawr Contango No Naked Flames Rebel Windshift Aztec Raptor Black Velvet Persistance Errislannan Windmill Karukera Bengal Magic Dodger Esperanto

David McNiven Lance Allen Miles Turner Philip Smith Donal Dempsey Charles Sutherland Tom Fitzpatrick/Des Glennon Conor Walls/Chris Cawle Declan Gray Earls/Breen/Hogg Paul McGlinchie Dennis Williams Barry Cunningham Andrew Allen/Colm Monahan Stan Edge Terry Leonard Peter Beamish Justin McCarthy and others Parnell Family Charles Broadhead Patrick J. Kirwan Andrew Sarratt Brown/Harvey/Keane John Moorehead O’Neill/Bagnall/McHugh Martin Reilly

Arklow Sailing Club Arklow Sailing Club Dun Laoghaire Marina Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club Fairlie Yacht Club Howth Yacht Club Howth Yacht Club Howth Yacht Club Howth Yacht Club Lough Swilly Yacht Club Pwllheli Sailing Club RI Yacht Club/DMYacht Club RNI Yacht Club/Q Yacht Club Royal Dee Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal Ulster Yacht Club Royal St George YC/National YC Sligo Yacht Club

Significant Team Cul8r Relax Freebird Esprit Pepperbox Sunburn Voyager Impetuous Papillion Jokers Wild Flash 2 Bushwakka Kit Off Grasshopper 2 Satisfaction Wil2win Mixed Feelings An Puca Kamikaze Bendemeer Rebel Red Rhum Ruthless

Ian MacDonald Team Cul8r Richard Dalton Edmund Kay Cormac and Mandy Farrelly Ian Byrne Joe Carton Noonan Gowing Chambers Brendan O’ Halloran Gordon Knaggs Adam Kyffin/Jon Oliver V. O’Shea/J. O’Brien Eoin Gallagher Kevin Glynn John Collins Wil Partington Colin Byrne Keith Kiernan Peter Nash/Bridin McIntyre Gerald Kinsella Brian R.M. Mackle Jonathan Nicholson Conor Ronan

Clyde Cruising Club Courtown Sailing Club Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club Howth Yacht Club Howth Yacht Club Howth Yacht Club Howth Yacht Club Howth Yacht Club Howth Yacht Club Howth Yacht Club Liverpool Yacht Club Malahide Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club Pwllheli Sailing Club Pwllheli Sailing Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Sligo Yacht Club

Cruiser 2 GBR3892 IRL81641 IRL929 IRL1028 IRL4123 IRL1132 IRL657 IRL2505 IRL2300 IRL8151 GBR6998 9033 GBR2552R IRL1038 GBR 9418T GBR 9187T IRL 1103 IRL 2604 IRL 8223 IRL 521 IRL 1798 IRL 7284 IRL 26026

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Cruiser 3 IRL 1520 7927 Y 1689 GBR 7469 T IRL 1135 IRL 34218 IRL 7770 IRL 8245 IRL 3150 IRL 7156 1711 IRL 1311 IRL 4186 IRL 5505 GBR 4085 T 8069 IRL 9508 IRL 8047 IR 9311 IRL 246 IRL 2855 2121 IRL 307 IRL 6404 IRL 7007 IRL 851 IRL 1181 225 IRL 1502 IR 9516 IRL 254

Ete Eagre Chouskikou Tango Krayz Lady Rowena Two Step Asterix Wanderlust Gaelic Kiwi Snowbird Holly Checkmate Addison Catch32 Cacciatore Huggy Bear Jammie Dodger Borraine Saki Pamafe Chinok Wynward Isolde Small Wonder Taiealai Lindos Growl Tiger Vespucci Whistling Dixie Gold Dust

Cass Roche L. Meany/P. Fenelley Ronnie Sheehan/Ray Hickey Andy Dunn Patrick Kenny David Bolger Ross Doyle Caufield/Counihan/Meredith Melvin Bros.

Declan Curtin Baird/McCormick Basil MacMahon John Faller Jim Freyne John Myerough Mairead Ni Cheallachain Sean Doyle/Gerry Byrne Jerry O’Neill Ean Pugh P. McCormack/B. and M. Ryan Michael Costello Andrew Bradley Wyn McCormack Peter Carroll Hugh Kelly Richardson/Lawless Clive C. Martin Adrian Keaveney/Graham Welsh Sean and Kristina O Regan O’Sullivan/Keelan Alfred E. Wood

Clontarf Yacht and Boat Club Clontarf Yacht and Boat Club Dun Laoghaire Marina Douglas Bay Yacht Club Dun Laoghaire Marina Dun Laoghaire Marina Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club Howth Yacht Club Howth Yacht Club Howth Yacht Club Liverpool Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club

Stormy Petrel Lisa Ann - 7m Tyred Dreamin Foregone Conclusion Sandpiper of Howth Poppy More Mishief Emir Herr Afternoon Delight Quite Correct Galileo Soleil III - 47ft Sunrunner 10M Hypertension Katanca Sea Safari Annabella Xeres Geraldine Tara Too Toroa Calypso Misty Oystercatcher Nirvana Delphin Katie

John O’Reilly Steve Hayes Liam Coyne David Byrne Andrew Knowles John Roberts Eamonn Doyle & Others Liam Shanahan M. Bennett and G. Begley John Roberts Kelleher/Lemass/Tennyson Chris Horrigan Paul Marland Bill Rickard B. O’Connor/C Ennis Jacqui Smith Peter Boylan Lawrence O’Neill Alistair Tidey John O’Mahony John Hickson Howard Knott Trevor Wood Mark Barr Bernard Neeson Leo Conway Tom Dunne/Fergal Fahy

Royal St George Yacht Club Bray Sailing Club Dun Laoghaire Marina Dun Laoghaire MYC/Royal Irish YC Howth Yacht Club Liverpool Yacht Club Dun Laoghaire Marina National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club Pwllheli Sailing Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club

Cruiser 5 IRL 895 IRL 2437 IRL 1304 IRL 4006 IRL 37050 GBR 4183 IRL 966 IRL 1118 IRL 3202 IRL 5405 IRL 1944 GBR 7404 T K 8778 IRL 8200 IRL 31310 1082 IRL 1093 IRL 2382 3536 IRL 3433 IRL 905 IRL 5643 7411 IRL 1177 IRL 3104 IRL 1005 IRL 3204

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Dragon IR 53 IRL131 IRL 171 IRL 127 IRL 167 IRL 159 IRL 201 IRL 196 IRL 157

Rebel Susele Diva Zinzan Puca Deemin Jaguar Whisper Das Boot

Sean Billings Michael Halpenny Dan O’Connor Burke/Henry/Mackey Peter Dee/Matt Minch Martin Byrne Mick Cotter J. Lavery and P.V. Maguire

National Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club

Jabberwocky Ladies Who Launch Eitlean Glance Blue Joy Division Fuzzy Duck Eccentric Spirit of Freedom Muddy Paws

Simon Knowles O’Loughlin/Dwyer Bourke, McMurnane O Reilly/Dix Marc Fitzgibbon/Andy John Colman and Mervin Phelan Brian and Conor O’Neill Conal Casey N. Love/S. Kavanagh Anthony Shanks

Howth Yacht Club Howth Yacht Club Howth Yacht Club Howth Yacht Club Howth Yacht Club Howth Yacht Club Howth Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club

Richard Goodbody/Rick Johnson

Etchell IRL 1040 AUS 1271 IRL 1038 IRL 9761 IR 1006 IRL 953 IRL1180 IRL 1005 GBR 1176 IRL 1116

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Fireball GBR 14901 IRL 14748 14329 IRL 14854 IRL 14934 14937 14263 IRL 14894 IRL 13210 IRL 14877 IRL 14713 IRL 14706 14150 14416 14678 IRL 14775 GBR 14636 IRL 14840 14700 14655 IRL 14691 GBR 14770 GBR 14927 IRL 14938 IRL 14629 IRL 14817 Irl 14340

Herbie Lady Eile Liquid Asset Incubus Lets Get Messy No Name Highlander Zara Mombasa Train Samphire Blind Squirrel Tranquility Base Dogbolter No Name John F Kay Elevation Black Magic Splash and Dash Maximum Break Johnny logan Goodness Gracious Blind Date Activpayroll No name Red Eye Eileen to Leward SSIA Spending Spree

Mary Faherty Jonathan Evans Hugh Johnson Louis Smyth Andrew Boyle Mick Creighton Bill Walsh Noel Butler Henry Rice Marguerite O’Rourke Frank Miller Alastair Court Cariosa Power/Marie Barry Brenda Maguire Aidan Burke Neil Colin John Manson Francis Rowan Cally and Sarah Donaghy Derval O’Carroll Louise McKenna Leo Bishop Euan Sellar Niall McGrotty Conor O’Toole Doire Shiels Conor Byrne

Clontarf Yacht & Boat Club Clontarf Yacht & Boat Club Clontarf Yacht & Boat Club Coal Harbour DL Coal Harbour DL Coal Harbour DL Coal Harbour DL Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club Kinsale Yacht Club Lerwick Boating Club National Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal Tay Yacht Club Skerries Sailing Club Skerries Sailing Club Skerries Sailing Club Skerries Sailing Club

Rollercoaster Fflagellator Hy5ive

Thomas Murphy Alan Dooley David and Sarah Gorman John Fitzgerald-Brennan Ken Dumpleton Sean/Paul Nolan Niall Meagher Peter Sherry David Mulvin Alan Green/Chris Doorly Tom Leonard Alan Balfe Michael McCambridge Ben Mulligan Joseph Coughlan Francis Burgess Gabriel Grier Michael Cahill Niall Coleman Keith Poole Joe Duggan Frances and Clive Brandon

National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club

Flying 15 IRL 3774 IR 3588 IRL 3877 3337 3753 IRL 3648 IRL 3708 IRL 3749 IRL 3729 IRL 3665 3706 IRL 3688 IR 3704 IRL 3691 3601 3747 3556 IRL 3606 IRL 3686 IRL 3864 IRL 3558 3697 64

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Olive Oyl Gekko The Big Bow Wow A Mere Triffle Midlife Crisis Deranged Melliffluence As Good As It Gets Hi Fibre It Just Gets Better Fidus Achates Snow White Out of the Blue Ffrenetic Flyer The Gruffalo Placebo Effect Fandango

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Glen 67 10 3 107 9

Glenluce Glenariff Glencorel Glencree Glendun

53 4 5 1 12 61 29 14

Glenmarissa Glenroan Glenshane Glenshesk Pterodactyl Glengesh Glanmiller Glencoe

Donal O’Connor Adrian Lee Brian Waldock Roche/Maguire/Bligh O’Brien/Denham Freedman/McConnell Frank Elmes Terence Moran Thomas S. McCann Brian Scott Roderick McCaffrey Wallmorris/Sands/O’Connor Paul Cusack Craig/Sheehen/Murphy

Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club

Half Ton GBR 5397 GBR 5586 BEL 7548 FRA 8344 IRL 9156 IRL 9141 FIN 9450 GBR 6521 IRL 5620 IRL 53351 IRL 8094 GBR 5384 IRL 5522 GBR 5777 BEL 9179 GBR 584 IRL 700 BEL 5394 ITA 12769 IRL 31416 GBR 66 R FRA 7962 FRA 6374 GBR 6554 IR 142 66

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Beat & Run Moonlighter Général Tapioca Delfica II Dick Dastardly Funny Business Blues Misjif Eliminator Miss Whiplash King One Superhero The Big Picture Alchemist Skippy’s Ton Chia Chia Boomerang Fantasy Per Elisa Blue Berret Pi Henri-Lloyd Harmony Philemon Hakuna Matata Cherubino Golden Shamrock

Christopher Haworth Michael Ennis Phil Pilate Yves Gerard S. Kinnear/B. Cusack/R. O’Neill

James Menton Stohek/Tulokas Jim Houston/Roddy Angus Henry Hogg George Radley Dave Cullen/Eddie Bourke John Banahan and Others Evans/Heffernan/Freyne Mark Wynter Nicholas Lejeune Eagleton/Waterhouse Tarla MacGabhann Ian Van Burm Robbie Tregear/Paul Pullen Connellan/Madigan Tino Hyland/Nigel Biggs Jean Ado Jean-Francois Nouel S. Hipkin/G. Parker Dr. Michael O’Gorman

Blackpool & Fleetwood Yacht Club Blackpool & Fleetwood Yacht Club Brussels Royal Yacht Club Club Nautique Marine Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club Finnish Yacht Club FYC/Royal St George Yacht Club Garrykennedy Sailing Club Glandore Harbour Sailing Club Howth Yacht Club Howth Yacht Club Howth Yacht Club Island Sailing Club RORC IOW KYCN Liverpool Yacht Club Lough Swilly Royal Belgian Sailing Club Royal Cornwall Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club SNBSM Societe Nautique de la baie de Sint Malo Walton & Frinton Yacht Club –

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Howth 17 17 19 3 14 8 6

Oona Isobel Leila Gladys Echo Anita

Peter Courtney Turveys/O’Doherty Roddy Cooper Jones Cronin Bryan F. Lynch Francis Cassidy

Howth Yacht Club Howth Yacht Club Howth Yacht Club Howth Yacht Club Howth Yacht Club National Yacht Club

Sea Urchin IV Sunshine Delos 2 Chimaera Shearwater Squalls Doody Dunmoanin Siabhra Sapphire Shadowfax Diane Spray Eon Starfish Smurfette No Name

Padraig O’Donoghue John Moreau Patrick O’Neill Killian Sargent Ciaran Browne Stephen H. Harrison Jennifer Byrne Frank Hamilton David Long Lorcan O’Sullivan Tony Doody Fergal and Max O’Flaherty Joanne Sheehan Martina Michels Alan Carr Charles Sargent Gerry O’Hanlon

Clontarf Yacht and Boat Club Clontarf Yacht and Boat Club Clontarf Yacht and Boat Club Clontarf Yacht and Boat Club Clontarf Yacht and Boat Club Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Sailing in Dublin Sutton Dinghy Club Sutton Dinghy Club Sutton Dinghy Club

Aquelina Jambo Jumping Jellyfish Tigh Soluis II Jukebox Jeronimo Jump The Gun D’Roxy Jetstream Joker 2 Batfish Rollercoaster Juniper

Sheila Tyrrell/James Tyrrell Nick Fry and Kate Bucking Jason Eker Ken Grant Brian Moreton Daniel Sinclair Michael Monaghan/J. Kelly Jim McCann/Hugh O’Donnell Peter Redden John Maybury Bill Blain Chris/Patanne Power-Smith Kenneth Hunter

Arklow Sailing Club Hamble Hamble Holy Loch Liverpool Yacht Club Royal Forth Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Southern Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal Ulster Yacht Club

IDRA 14 136 112 15 157 31 124 137 140 IRL 92 138 141 122 107 133 38 126 120

J109 IRL 1661 GBR 4709 R GBR 2709 R 2377 C 9001R GBR 8920T IRL 1129 GBR 109L IRL 8109 IRL 1206 GBR 7909R IRL 9109 GBR 8542R

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J24 IRL 4628 IRL 1183 IRL 4162 IR 1686 IRL 4794 IR 727 IRL 1812 GBR 4084

Bád Jaws Cries of Passion Just In Time Hard on Port Carrabeg Westmeath Motor Group Billy Whizz

Steve Atkinson Jamie Bergin Bryan Maguire/Allan O’Connor Gerry Jones Flor O’Driscoll D.L. Martin and R. Deasy Simon McGibney Nick Stephens

Carrickfergus Sailing Club Lough Ree Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Western Yacht Club Whitby Yacht Club

Mutts Nuts TBA TBA Sharkbait TBC Forza Trouble!

TBA TBA TBA Mandarin Artful Dodger Sea Breeze 3 Post SSIA TBA Backless 2 Bad Ceco DuffBeer 2 Toucan 3 Flash TBA Downhill Junky Slarti Bartfast SoB Fun On The Run Sidewinder Smoke Macaulay Graham Judge TBA TBA The Baron McCready Sailboats Liftingsafety.co.uk

Lee Boatman/Brent Grove Kieran Dorgan David Quinn / John Malone Ben Duncan Eoin Quinlan Joe Cull McDonald/Turner Paul O’Callaghan D. Herraghty/M. McNamara Liam Shanahan Rory Byrne Roger Bannon Sean Cahill Darren Burke Dylan Redmond Gareth Nolan J. Dowling/E. O’Coineen Dave Cheyne Messrs McKinney Mike and Gavin Vaughan Colin Galavan/Gordon Patt Tim Bourke Andrew Algeo/Ben Cooke Sean Craig Gary O’Hare Peter Lee Declan Keogh Louise Mckenna/Bob Hobby Gordon Judge D. Dwyer/R.Tate Bob and Geoff Tait Ben Williamson Brian Spence David Atkinson

Arklow Sailing Club Cove Sailing Club Howth Yacht Club Howth Yacht Club Howth Yacht Club Howth Yacht Club Howth Yacht Club Lough Derg YC/Royal Irish YC Lough Ree Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal North of Ireland Yacht Club Royal North of Ireland Yacht Club Royal North of Ireland Yacht Club Royal N. of Ireland YC/National YC Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal Yorkshire Yacht Club Royal Ulster Yacht Club Sunderland Yacht Club

Laser SB3 GBR 3095 0000 IRL 3240 3287 TBC 123456 GBR 3148 3247 TBA IRL 3241 0000 – TBA0 IRL 3271 IRL 999999 TBA 3059 TBA IRL 3258 IRL 3280 IRL 3298 IRL 3257 TBA IRL 3260 3281 IR 3355 3249 IRL 3268 IRL 0000 TBA 3297 3254 GBR 3132 IRL 3233 3044 72

OFFICIAL PROGRAMME

Ireland’s Biggest Regatta July 12 - 15 2007

Runners and Riders 2007

Mermaid 113 21 77 181 134 11 131 185 76

Una C Aideen Tiller Girl Kim Jill Oonagh Wild Wind The Message Helen

Geraldine O’Neill Dan Brennan Jonathan O’Rourke Barry Neill Paul Smith/Pat Mangan Marilyn Griffith Paddy Dillon Ross Galbraith Therese McHugh

National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Rush Sailing Club Skerries Sailing Club Skerries Sailing Club

Ruff Rider Papillon Alias Carmen Ruff n’ Ready Riff Raff Paramour Blue Moon Icicle Ruff Nuff Diane 2 Ruffin’ It

Ronan Lee John O’Reilly Andrew Moore Brendan Duffy B. Cullen/C. Brown/A. Kirwan Paul Fagan Larry Power Brendan McCormack Colm T. Murray Derek and Carol Mitchell Bruce Carswell Sailing In Dublin Club

Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Sailing in Dublin

Invader Malindi Curraglass Bluefin Whiterock Aeolus Therapi Macro One HOBO Six Jo Slim Twocan Brent Goose Poppy Gusto

Gerard Glynn Andrew Gray John Masterson

Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Skerries Sailing Club

Ruffian 401 IRL 676 IE 525 IRL 6043 K 6014 IRL 145 IRL 470 IRL 140 979C IR 232 IRL 7 IR 472

Shipman IRL 3221 717 459 1223 IR 740 751 IRL 785 IR 270 IRL 507 528 IR 553 765 639 IR 724

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Finucane/O’Sullivan/Hegary/Rous

Henry M. Robinson Laurence Thompson McCarthy and Others J. Murray John Bourke, Harry Byrne J. Clarke/Gerard Maher F. David Freeman Tony Vincent Lyster and Others Christine Heath

Ireland’s Biggest Regatta July 12 - 15 2007

Runners and Riders 2007

Sigma 33 IRL 4349 IRL 4804 K4364 K4536 IRL 4206 4281 4412 4597 IRL 4633 IRL 971 GBR 4999 IRL 4464 IRL 4571 IRL 4518 IRL 4534

Blue Peregrine Shillelagh Popje Elandra Powder Monkey Pippa IV Miss Behavin September Song White Mishief Leeuwin Moonshine Springer Flyover Rupert Gwilli Two

Joe McDonald/Ken Wright Dermod Baker Ted McCourt Ralph Hance/Aubrey Legget C. Moore/M. Byrne & Others K. Blake/M.L. O’Brien Ken Robertson Conor Colleary Timothy Goodbody Des Rogan/Robert Kerr Ronnie Moloney Ian Bowring T. O’Toole/M. and R. Brennan P.T. Varian/R.V. Lovegrove Dermot Clarke/Patrick Maguire

National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club National Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club

Bateleur Klipbok Tais Coorse and Fine Anemos Why Not Aquabats Perfection Juno II Fox Buzz Lite Little Demon Wavedancer Sidewinder Lola Bellerophon No Name Absolutely Fabulous

Jonathan Craig Emmet Dalton Michael O’Connell Wendy Goodbody Pete Evans Derek Jago F. Harrington and B. Fogarty Jill Fleming G. Brian Hutchinson Michael Moran/Ronan Brown Gerry O’Connor Sheila Power Fergal Gaynor David Croke John O’Rahilly David Mannion Frank Whelan C. Chapman and L. O’Hagan

Howth Yacht Club Howth Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Southern Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club

Squib 624 89 724 530 832 798 787 44 657 738 125 95 853 138 46 697 770 792

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Ireland’s Biggest Regatta July 12 - 15 2007

Runners and Riders 2007

Water Wags 41 40 42 17 19 11 15 18 38 31 22 36 12 10 26 33 6 8 29 3 80

Mollie Swallow Tortoise Coquette Shindilla Ann 2 Moosmie Good Hope Swift Polly Saryaus Little Tern Alfa Sprite Nandor Eva Mary Kate II Eros Patricia Pansy OFFICIAL PROGRAMME

Cathy MacAleavey Denis and Margaret Woods William and Linda Prentice Seymour Cresswell Philip Mahony P. McNamara/J. Fitzpatrick David McFarlane Hal Sisk (sailed by AN Other) Guy Kilroy Geoffrey Sarratt Monica McWeeney J.Ross-Murphy M. & J. Donohoe Rupert Westrup Stuart McBean Chris Connelly Des Thorpe Gail Varian Harry Croxon Julie Delany

National Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal Irish Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Royal St George Yacht Club Skerries Sailing Club Wag Club