Home of the Round Ireland

The next
 Round Ireland Yacht Race

  will take place on  

TBC

Check out our dedicated Round Ireland Race site 

All enquiries to:-

2012 Race Director  - Dennis Noonan. 

(N.B. -please include a contact number on all e-mails/correspondence)
c/o Theo Phelan Race Organiser  6 Wentworth Place, Wicklow Town

 Email:   roundirelandyachtrace@gmail.com

Photo David BranniganOceansport

 Congratulations to Piet Vroon and his crew on Tonnerre de Breskens 3 on winning the 2010 Conway Media Round Ireland - (Piet was in hospital for most of the race but followed the boats progress as they went round).

    See Ireland as you've never seen her before!

Race Info

  Tips for success- plan ahead for the Round Ireland

Our Wonderful Race

 The Round Ireland is Ireland's premier offshore yacht race, and the second longest race in the Royal Ocean Racing Club calendar. The first race took place in 1980 with only thirteen boats. Since then, held biannually, the fleet has grown steadily, attracting a record 60 entrants from all over Ireland and the British Isles in 1992. 
There are four classes in IRC in which boats and their crews can compete, including a Classic Class for the Michael Jones Trophy, classes for Sigma, ISORA, IRM, a Team Prize. 2004 saw the launch of the "Two-handed Class" which has introduced a new level of competition for the more extreme sailor. In the past, boats competing have ranged from an 84-footer former "round the world" maxi, to club boats one third the size, with all shades in between. 2008 saw the largest yacht yet to partake - ICAP Leopard, a 105ft racing machine entered by Mike Slade, and favourable winds enabled them smash the old record by more than 10 hours. It will take ideal conditions and another large yacht to better that  a challenge worth taking on!

The bigger boats compete for top honours and for the race record, which is held by Colm Barrington who skippered Jeep Cherokee to victory in 1998 in a time of 76 hours 23 minutes and 57 seconds, breaking the previous record by a massive eight hours. The 2004 winner was a 32' one off design built in Ireland for Eamon Crosbie called Calyx Voice and Data ( "Voodoo Chile")  and the 2006 Race was won by a previous winner, Eric Lissons' "Cavatina" (2002), a Grenada 38 classic GRP yacht.

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