Royal Irish Yacht Club Celebrates 190th Anniversary with Annual Pursuit Race
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Racing Dublin s Fish Catch Through the Royal Irish Yacht Club Regatta s Finish Line
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Joe Smyth s Yikes Leads Beneteau 211 National Championships at the Royal Irish Yacht Club
4th July 2021
Joe Smyth s Yikes Leads Beneteau 211 National Championships at the Royal Irish Yacht Club
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The host club dominates the 2021 Beneteau 211 National Championships at the Royal Irish Yacht Club after the first three races sailed off Dun Laoghaire Harbour.
With a 2,1,1 scored so far RIYC s Joe Smyth helming Yikes has a three-point margin over clubmate John Downey s Capilano on seven points.
Royal Irish commodore Pat Shannon, sailing Beeswing, is lying third on 13 points in the 11-boat fleet.
A start of a 2021 Beneteau 211 National Championships race at Dun Laoghaire
Falling Faintly; a Poem for the Late Team Race Legend Jimmy Fitzpatrick
10th February 2021
Writer Alison Hackett knew the late Jimmy Fitzpatrick as a great friend since her university sailing days in the 70s and 80s. Hackett says Jimmy s obituary written by David Sommerville on Afloat last week meant an awful lot to her and she has responded to the sadness she feels at the death of the team racing legend with a poem
FALLING FAINTLY
for the last time, the gate open a little,
his absence not an absence but the possibility
of return; his laugh echoing from somewhere,