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Royal Cork X34 Alpaca Joins the Volvo Dun Laoghaire Dingle Fleet 8th February 2021 Paul and Deirdre Tingle s X-34 is the latest entry into the 2021 Dun Laoghaire Dingle Race Credit: Afloat The Cork Harbour entry brings to 42 the number of boats now entered for the 320-mile National Yacht Club fixture, edging the club closer to its 50-boat advertised limit. The biennial Dun Laoghaire to Dingle race, which starts from Dun Laoghaire Harbour on June 9th, is a race down to the east coast of Ireland, across the south coast and into Dingle harbour in County Kerry. The initial lineup includes defending champion Rockabill VI, Paul O’Higgins’ JPK 10.80 which was also first on her debut on 2017, so the O’Higgins team have set the stakes high in aiming for the “Threepeat” in this classic challenge which always provides competitors with a remarkable variety of sailing. ....
16th January 2021 Conor Doyle s xP50 Freya from Kinsale is currently the largest entrant for the Volvo Dun Laoghaire-Dingle Race on June 9th. She is seen here winning the Kinsale-Monkstown Race in a record two hours, but the course record she challenges in the race to Dingle was set by a 94-footer, Mick Cottter s Windfall in 2019 Credit: Robert Bateman It s getting to be like a game of skittles in the planned lineup of high-profile 2021 events which everybody - way back in the dark depths of earlier pandemic lockdowns – thought would surely come to pass in the remote sunlit heights of what was then the distant future of supposedly plague-free 2021. ....
11th January 2021 Getting on a head of steam. Rockabill Vi (Paul O’Higgins, RIYC) starting to find the strengthening fair wind in the early stages of the 2019 Volvo Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race. Already the defending champion after winning in 2017, she held on to her title in Dingle, and was also ISORA Champion and ICRA “Boat of the Year”, while her owner-skipper became 2019 Sailor of the Year It’s only a week since the listings opened for the National YC’s 2021 Volvo Dun Laoghaire to Dingle Race scheduled for June 9th, and already 15 definite entries have arrived in with such speed that the organising committee - under chairman Adam Winkelmann – have said they may have to be prepared to look at an upper limit of 50 boats. ....