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   to Wicklow Sailing Club

(affiliated to The Irish Sailing Association)

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August Bank Holiday - East Coast Regatta

New Honorary Member - Hilary Lister, Quadriplegic Sailor

Charlie Kavanagh, our Commodore, would like to extend a warm welcome to all our friends/visitors and hopes to see our own members regularly using the recently upgraded clubhouse. Our members are getting used to the newly decorated bar and resurfaced boat park, expensive improvements that will make our club more attractive to potential new members. Hopefully 2009 will see more improvements during the year and we look forward to welcoming many old and new faces to our club. **We will be looking for a new sponsor for our Round Ireland Race, now a major international event on the sailing calendar, so any corporate patrons out there with some cash to spare, please give us a shout. 

Our Friendly Little Club

(Click here for potted history.)
Founded in 1950 the club currently has over three hundred members, racing in several classes including cruisers, wayfarers, 420's, lasers, toppers and mirrors. Racing for cruisers during the summer season is every Wednesday and Sunday, while racing for dinghy's is held every Saturday afternoon. Our cruising sailors usually head to Porthmadog in July and we often take in other trips along the Irish coast. We provide Junior Training during the month of July and/or August for 10 years old and up.

Wicklow Sailing Club is an I.S.A accredited training centre for junior training levels 1 to 5 and also powerboat training.  

 Our sailing visitors are always welcome to use the Clubhouse and it's facilities. We have a very friendly reputation on Irelands East Coast and love to hear tales of sailing derring do. The bar is open every night in the summer (Jun/Jul/Aug) and Thursday to Sunday in the winter. (See Newsletter < on the panel). Adequate berthing is available on the quayside (East pier) or only by prior arrangement on swing moorings. Wicklow is a busy commercial port, with often 1 or more large ships berthed in the river and an active whelk fishing fleet, so berthing space can be a problem.

Our clubhouse is located on the South Quay of Wicklow harbour, adjacent to the RNLI station.

We are twinned with Madoc Yacht Club, our Welsh neighbours in Porthmadog, North Wales.

Now our Town Councils are also twinned which was formalised in September 2006.

Last updated:- 01/06/09
We hope you find our site useful, if you have any comments or requests please contact the club by phone at +353 0404 67526 or by email info@wicklowsailingclub.com.