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Mark Your Calendar Now for #VDLR2027
Thursday 8th to Sunday 12th July 2027 !
It’s over 20 years since the first Dún Laoghaire Regatta, and our hard-working team pulled off yet another spectacular weekend of excellent sailing on a variety of courses in 2025, whether one-design or handicap, dinghy or keelboat. Our waterfront clubs provided a social scene not to be missed, and even the weather went above and beyond !
VDLR Day 1 Gallery
Blue Skies & Full Sails for Day Two of VDLR
VDLR Day 2 Gallery
VDLR Day 3 Gallery
VDLR Day 4 Gallery
VDLR Prizegiving Gallery
All these photographs are available free of charge for any participants to download and keep – click the Google photos carousel at the top of each gallery to find the full resolution files or click on the image tile of your picture.
The VDLR committee is calling for volunteers, both within and from outside the sailing community, to contribute to all areas of the event in 2027, with some opportunities starting in 2026 and increasing throughout the next 12 months.
If you are interested please contact Paddy Boyd, the Event Director, at ed@dlregatta.org
SAILING NEWS
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VDLR Goes Live on Ireland’s TV Breakfast Show
Previewing the IRC Cruiser Racer Favourites on Dublin Bay
American Melges 15 Crews Expected to Set Standard at Europeans Championships on Dublin Bay
Get Your Official VDLR2025 Merch and Last-Minute Kit From Viking Marine
10th VDLR to Open with Ceremonial Gunfire
“Bay Race” To Get VDLR2025 Off To Flying Start
Event News
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Previewing the IRC Cruiser Racer Favourites on Dublin Bay
Singer Neil Young’s superyacht may have sailed away, but Dun Laoghaire is about to rock again this Thursday as European champions are among 100-plus cruiser racers competing for IRC honours as part of Ireland’s biggest sailing event, Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta 2025.
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American Melges 15 Crews Expected to Set Standard at Europeans Championships on Dublin Bay
A host of excited foreign accents can already be heard on the waterfront as crews fly in for the Inaugural Melges 15 Europeans Championships, which will be held on the Hyland Shipping course at the Volvo Dun Laoghaire regatta.
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“Bay Race” To Get VDLR2025 Off To Flying Start
Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta 2025 Race Officer Con Murphy cheerfully admits that the concept of the “Bay Race”, getting this week’s biennial four-day sailfest off to a flying start on Thursday, July 10th, is to some extent a “Work in Progress,” and all in my head.
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VDLR2025 Will See Competition Reflect Ancient and Modern Rivalries
The Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta 2025 gets under way next Thursday July 10th, introducing four days of racing to provide a continuation of rivalries which have been bubbling along with increasing vigour since the Scottish Series in May. Back then, the Hall family’s J/109 Something Else from the National Yacht Club emerged as top boat overall, with clubmate Johnny Treanor’s newer J/112eGP ValenTina next in line.
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Sailing Instructions – Volvo Dún Laoghaire Regatta 2025
Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta has published the sailing instructions for the event, and the 32-page document provides written directions outlining how, over four days, almost 800 races will be conducted for 300 boats across 21 different classes. Addressing the complexities of multiple class needs across the seven available course areas on Dublin Bay, the 2025 edition of the ‘SIs’ also includes the inaugural Melges 15 European Championships.
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VDLR 2025 Race Schedule Published
The Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta (VDLR) committee have been working diligently on our Sailing Instructions for Ireland’s largest regatta, which features up to 300 boats and takes place in two weeks (July 10th). Addressing the complexities of multiple class needs across the seven available course areas on Dublin Bay, the 2025 edition also includes the inaugural Melges 15 European Championships.
