Savings of up to 17% are available before midnight tonight (Wednesday, April 30th), to enter Ireland’s largest sailing event this year, the 2025 Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta on Dublin Bay.
The first race of this year’s Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta will be a mass start fixed mark race on the Irish capital’s waters. Titled the Bay Race, it will start close to the piers and, weather permitting, offer several course options.
With close to 200 entries received for this year’s Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta as of March 31st 2025, organisers are reported ‘pleased’ with the take up to date across the competing handicap and One Design classes.
The reigning ICRA National Champion and IRC European Champion is one of five J109s entered in Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta before next week’s early bird entry deadline for Ireland’s biggest sailing event. The Johnny Murphy skippered Howth-based J109 Outrajeous that swept the boards in 2024 will be on the Dun Laoghaire line but will face strong Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland competition along with a The reigning ICRA National Champion and IRC European Champion is one of five J109s entered in Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta before next week’s early bird entry deadline for Ireland’s biggest sailing event.
With less than a week to go until the reduced early bird entry fee for July’s Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta 2025 expires, you could be in with a chance to win a Dubarry holdall and backpack set in the regatta’s latest competition prize. To avail of this opportunity and discounted entry fees, enter here before Monday, March 31st, and you will be entered into the raffle for some of the latest Dubarry kit.
Scheduled for May and July, the Nations Cup will coincide with several major regattas: the IRC Welsh Championships in Pwllheli, and the Scottish Series in Tarbert, before the spotlight shifts to the Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta from 10th to 13th July, and concluding with the IRC Northern Ireland Championships in Bangor.
Organisers have formally announced details of the 2025 combined regatta initiative for teams from Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, England and Ireland. Following an inaugural meeting last December, four 2025 regattas in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Ireland and Wales have combined.
Already, four Flying Fifteens are signed up for Dun Laoghaire with a fleet of 20 plus ultimately expected, making it one of the biggest one-design fleets at Ireland’s biggest sailing event from July 9-13.
The non-spinnaker Cruiser 2B class leads the entry count in the four non-spinnaker classes for July’s Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta. Three local boats plus a Beneteau Oceanis 37 from Arklow Sailing Club comprise the four-boat fleet to date, including Colin O’Brien’s Spirit, a Jeanneau 39DS and Paul Conway’s Contessa 32, Cevantes, both from the Royal St George Yacht Club.
Xaviera, an X4 owned by Jonathan Anderson, was the name drawn from the hat in January to win back her entry fee in this year’s Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta’s early entry incentive.
Entered in the coastal class, Xaviera sails under the burgees of the Clyde Cruising Club and the Royal Irish Yacht Club.
As Afloat readers will recall, Xaviera was on form in Belfast Lough at Bangor Regatta in 2024 but she makes her Dun Laoghaire Regatta debut on Dublin Bay this July.
