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VDLR 2025
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We’ll be back on the water 10 – 13 July 2025 !
It’s 20 years since the first Dún Laoghaire Regatta, and the team are working hard already to bring you excellent sailing on a variety of courses, whether one-design or handicap, dinghy or keelboat. Our waterfront clubs will provide a social scene not to be missed, and we are planning some innovation mixed with the traditional features both ashore and afloat. Keep coming back here to check!
The VDLR is calling for volunteers, both within and outside the sailing community, to contribute to all areas of the event in 2025, with some opportunities starting in 2024 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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Saturday’s ISORA Lyver Trophy is the 1st Race for VDLR’s Royal Dee Fleet
VDLR Releases Sailing Instructions Ahead of July 10th
VDLR 2025 Race Schedule Published
Enter VDLR to Win a Greek Yacht Charter
Melges 15s Warm Up for VDLR & Euro Championships
England Clear Leader of Irish Sea Nation’s Cup after Scottish Series
Event News
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.
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.
Enter VDLR to Win a Greek Yacht Charter
Win a Greek Bareboat Charter for You and three friends! Enter the Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta (VDLR) before Sunday, 29th June, and you’ll be in the draw for an unforgettable sailing holiday in the Greek Islands.
Dún Laoghaire Harbour’s Unique Character is the Making of Coastival and VDLR 25
“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”.
Dún Laoghaire Launches 10th VDLR and Coastival Festival
An Cathaoirleach of Dun Laoghaire Rathdown, County Council, Jim O’ Leary was on hand to make this week’s joint launch of the 10th Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta, Ireland’s largest sailing event and the town’s Coastival Festival, which runs in July.
Ireland’s Largest Sailing Event Ensures ‘Something for Everyone’ in its 10th Edition
VDLR is now a major international sailing event, with everything from Olympic and world-class professionals to weekend sailors and their craft travelling from as far afield as the U.S.A to participate.