Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta 2021 Cancels Amid Ongoing Covid Uncertainty
1st May 2021
385 boats to date had entered for July s now-cancelled Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta
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July’s Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta 2021 has been cancelled due to the ongoing uncertainties over the Covid-19 pandemic.
The scrubbing of Ireland s biggest regatta, scheduled for the first two weekends of July, comes after careful consideration of the latest government announcement and discussion with event stakeholders at Dun Laoghaire Harbour.
The biennial event, which had attracted a bigger than expected fleet of 385 boats to date, will not now be sailed in 2021 but returns on schedule in July 2023.
Silver Lining Will be Small Consolation for Annalise Murphy in Vilamoura
24th April 2021
Aoife Hopkins of Howth YC finished sixth overall in the silver fleet
Credit: Joao Costa Ferreira
Annalise Murphy (National YC) revelled in the strong wind conditions winning four consecutive races in the Radial Silver fleet of the Vilamoura International Regatta to win the second fleet overall.
It will be small consolation for Ireland s Olympic silver medallist, however, who knows full well that with less than 70 days to go to Tokyo, the battle is well and truly on to improve her consistency. The point was reinforced by the fact that the Rio bronze medalist, Anne Marie Rindom won overall by a significant margin (39 points) in the Danish girl s own preparations for Enoshima Bay.
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Annalise Murphy is Mid Fleet After Day One of ILCA Vilamoura European Continental Qualifier
19th April 2021
Annalise Murphy of the National Yacht Club scored 29,8 to lie 34th overall after day one
Day one of the 2021 ILCA Vilamoura European Continental qualifier for the Olympic single-handed dinghy (M&W) was sailed in a six to 15 knot southwesterly, backing during the day.
The women s ILCA 6, formerly known as the Radial dinghy, got their two races in first, Rio Bronze medallist and 2019 World Champion Anne-Marie Rindom (DEN) taking two wins to tie the overall lead with Vasileia Karachaliou (GRE).
Annalise Murphy of the National Yacht Club (already nominated for Tokyo) and who has described this regatta as just a training event scored 29,8 to lie 34th overall, while Aoife Hopkins of Howth Yacht Club is 38th (15,23) and Eve McMahon, also HYC is 77th (39,33) in the 89-boat fleet.
17th April 2021
Cover girls….The International Dragon Class on an evening race in 1969 at Royal North of Ireland YC on Belfast Lough. RNIYC introduced the class to Ireland in the late 1930s, and for many years had the largest fleet, sending forth the 1948 Olympic helmsman Eric Strain
The Olympic Flame is now well into its progression through Japan, on a Marathon of Marathons which is seeing runners of every shape and size and type carry it into all of the 47 Prefectures which make up that most enigmatic of archipelagos. For Japan is a country which – just as you feel you re beginning to understand it – seems to fade behind yet another veil of the unknown.