The 2019 Irish Sailing Youth National Championships hosted by Royal Cork Yacht Club provided wild oscillations in weather conditions over the four days of planned racing. Thursday was certainly the calm before the arrival of Storm Hanna and three races were completed in light and fickle conditions. Friday dawned with raceable conditions in the morning…
The sunny south east delivered a fabulous weekends racing for the 2019 420 Leinster Championships held at Wexford Harbour Boat and Tennis Club. Whilst the forecast for Saturday was pessimistic with regards to the likely wind strength the race management team managed to deliver two quality races in a breeze of up to 7 knots…
The Schull half term 420 sailing week is the longest of the Irish 420 open training events and the training days are often followed by the Munster Regional Championships as was the case this year. The four days of training at Schull provided a mixture of on the water and land based sessions in…
The NoR is now available for download for the 2019 420 Munster Championships to be held at the Fastnet Marine and Outdoor Education Center in Schull, Co.Cork on February the 22nd and 23rd.
The 2020 U23 420 World Team Racing Championships will be organised by Cambridge University sailors, in conjunction with Grafham Water SC and with the support of the Oxford & Cambridge Sailing Society. Although August 2020 might seem a long way off we are publicising the event now so that the many 420 sailors now team…
Online registration is now open for both the 2019 Schull Training Camp taking place from Monday 18th to Thursday 21st February inclusive, and the Munster regional championships on Friday the 22nd and Saturday the 23rd of February inclusive. The total all in fee for the training camp and the Munster championships is €320 per boat, €160 per sailor. This fee…
Great opportunity to buy a very lightly sailed boat, in excellent condition. Has been kept in a garage for a number of years. Price €2,800 ono. Hull: Ziegelmayer in excellent. Sails: One set of North sails (main, jib and spinnaker); 1 further jib and two additional spinnakers 2 x Masts 2 x Booms 3 x…
In excellent condition and ready to race the boat comes comes with one set of racing and one set of training sails (1 main, 1 jib, 1 spinnaker in each set). Boat priced at £3,299 and available to view with prior arrangement at the RYA 420 squad selection weekend at East Antrim BC on the 13&14…
For the first time in their domestic event season this year the 420s had some breeze to stretch their legs, it has taken until September for an event to provide moderate to strong breezes and the 2018 Ulster Championships duly delivered some great breeze as part of the RYA Northern Ireland Youth Championships hosted by…
Two Galway ex 420 sailors recently represented Ireland at a major international Sea Scout event , the William I. Koch Cup, held in Galveston, Texas. The William I. Koch International Sea Scout Cup is a biannual Sailing Regatta put on by Sea Scouting (Boy Scouts of America). The event was founded by Bill Koch in 2002 in order to allow Sea…