Posted at 12:36h
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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Continuing our 2018 development programme UK Sailmakers Ireland are working with John Murphy and Richard Colwell’s new J109 which arrived into Howth last month.
After successful development and testing of the ‘JX’ headsail design on Dublin Bay the UK Sailmakers Ireland team have...
Posted at 17:58h
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Kieran Collins' "Coracle IV" scores big at RCYC end of season prize giving....
Posted at 18:34h
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In grand prix classes throughout the sport it is well known that sheeting angles are becoming tighter and tighter – modern TP52s have jib sheeting angles as close as 4 degrees off the centreline. The J109 class in Ireland is a growing and competitive fleet...
Posted at 15:48h
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Chris Johnston's Beneteau 31.7 has won Dublin Bay Sailing Club's Newsom Cup for the best one-design boat in the club's 2018 Summer sailing season....
Posted at 15:39h
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Earlier this month Barry was in Newport, Rhode Island, commissioning sails aboard the new J121 “Jackhammer”.
Owned and campaigned by ISORA and Ocean Racing veteran Andrew Hall – “Jackhammer” has an extensive programme planned for her first year having just been released from the J Boat yard...
Posted at 15:05h
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For many years, Ireland was a hotbed of technology and development for the sailmaking industry. With Hood Sailmakers weaving America's Cup winning cloth in Clonakilty, Ron Holland designing Half Ton Cup winning yachts in Crosshaven, and John and Des McWilliam designing and building championship winning...
