Sailing Instructions – Volvo Dún Laoghaire Regatta 2025
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Sailing Instructions – Volvo Dún Laoghaire Regatta 2025

ByGareth Craig

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.

Saturday’s ISORA Lyver Trophy is the 1st Race for VDLR’s Royal Dee Fleet
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Saturday’s ISORA Lyver Trophy is the 1st Race for VDLR’s Royal Dee Fleet

ByGareth Craig

Twelve boats, including the overall 2025 series leader and her near rival sistership, will compete in ISORA’s Royal Dee Offshore Championship, which is being sailed as part of next week’s Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta, kicking off this Saturday (July 5th) with the cross-channel Lyver Trophy Race.

VDLR Releases Sailing Instructions Ahead of July 10th
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VDLR Releases Sailing Instructions Ahead of July 10th

ByGareth Craig

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.

VDLR 2025 Race Schedule Published 
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VDLR 2025 Race Schedule Published 

ByGareth Craig

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.

England Clear Leader of Irish Sea Nation’s Cup after Scottish Series
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England Clear Leader of Irish Sea Nation’s Cup after Scottish Series

ByGareth Craig

The top-scoring boat at the Welsh IRC event was Xpletive (Mike Crompton) from South Caernarvonshire Yacht Club and Pwllheli Sailing Club, while the top visiting yacht was Adam Kyffin’s Corby 29 Eazitiger from the Liverpool Yacht Club.

Hyland Shipping Sponsors Inaugural Melges 15 Europeans at VDLR
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Hyland Shipping Sponsors Inaugural Melges 15 Europeans at VDLR

ByGareth Craig

Excitement is building for the inaugural Melges 15 Europeans, which will take place as part of Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta. Hyland Shipping will sponsor the Melges 15 Race Course as well as becoming a bronze sponsor of the regatta itself.

VDLR Ladies Lunch to Support Sailor Hannah Leonard
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VDLR Ladies Lunch to Support Sailor Hannah Leonard

ByGareth Craig

As many around Dún Laoghaire know, one of the social highlights of the four-day regatta is the lunch hosted by the Royal St. George Yacht Club, at which actress Amy Huberman led the style charge on the last occasion. The fundraising effort this year will be for Dun Laoghaire sailor Hannah Leonard, who was left with severe brain injuries after she was struck by a car in Sicily last October.

Dún Laoghaire Harbour’s Unique Character is the Making of Coastival and VDLR 25
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Dún Laoghaire Harbour’s Unique Character is the Making of Coastival and VDLR 25

ByGareth Craig

“Artificial” is one of the last words that spring to mind when you’ve spent many years in and around Dun Laoghaire Harbour. It’s all on such a scale, and constructed with so much locally-quarried material in a project begun 207 years ago in 1817, that it doesn’t really seem so very odd when those of a certain mind-set refer to it, without any irony, as “this wonderful natural feature of Dublin Bay”.