The Annual Junior Dinner and Awards will be held on Friday 15th November

RIYC Cadet Sailing Program news!  

The Royal Irish Yacht Club is delighted to be hosting the St. Andrew's College Alumni Team Racing Championship 2024


 

We are delighted to inform you that the 2024/2025 winter storage forms are now live on our website. 
 

RIYC Annual Pursuit Race 2024!

As usual this will be a joint Club endeavour with the waterfront clubs working together to get the best possible TY programme going forward. 

A unique schedule of major sailing championships will be hosted by the Royal Irish Yacht Club in Dun Laoghaire in 2024, in what will be three weeks of premiere keelboat racing.

Congratulations to our RIYC White Sails Cruiser team of Joan Sheffield (Just Jasmin), Katherine Sheehan (Great Escape) and Catherine Day (Shearwater) on winning the Roy Family Perpetual Trophy for the best team performance at the Women At The Helm (WATH) 2024 regatta held at Dun Laoghaire.

Mysail.team – connecting Skippers and Crew!

For the past six years we have been running a very successful Adult Sailing programme in which we teach adults to sail using our 1720 fleet. 

UCD Inter Varsity Champions 2024

See latest sailing news here!

In order to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Fastnet Race, the Crew of the 'Irish Independent' will bestow their trophy to the Club as a perpetual award.

2022 Sailing Review from the Rear Commodore Sailing, Joe Conway

UK Sailmakers are delighted to offer RIYC Members a very special offer on their customised McWilliam Kit Bags.

Many of you will have seen the new Liebherr LRT 1090 crane on the deck over the past week. This is being commissioned at present and we expect it to be fully operational next week. 

The J B Kearney Cup is awarded by the Irish Cruising Club for “an outstanding contribution to Irish Sailing”

A tribute to Carmel Winkelmann from Commodore, Pat Shannon

For 180 years a lifeboat has launched from Dun Laoghaire; today the station operates both an inshore lifeboat and an all-weather lifeboat. See the latest news here.

When you become a Member of the Royal Irish Yacht Club, you automatically become a Member of the Irish Sailing Association (Irish Sailing) which is the national governing body for sailing, powerboating and windsurfing. Their aim is to develop, support and promote sailing in Ireland. You can find out more about what they do here