Photo by Claire Metcalfe

After a long windless winter, and the postponements of round’s 1 & 2 of the Irish Speed Sailing Championship due to a lack of wind, the Irish Speed crew were finally in luck for Round 3 with a good wind forecast. The race organisers were monitoring the wind forecast earlier in the week and with good winds on the cards for Ireland’s West Coast, it was decided to try out Brandon Bay in Kerry. Brandon Bay being better known for its legendary wave sailing spots such as Gowlane and Garry William Point, proved that it also has speed potential when the swells are low for Speed Sailing. Fermoyle with its close proximity to the Connor Pass and its unique thermal effects in a S-SW wind was location of choice for the weekends action. (more…)

Fleadh 2010

Its that fun time of year again the WINDSURFING  FLEADH !!!! As most of you know this year Fingal Sailing School & Wind & Wave have kindly been nominated to hold the festival from Malahide! We’re hoping it will be as successful as other years & will ensure everyone has a great time!

The dates were selected as usual for the May Bank holiday weekend, 1st, 2nd & 3rd May.

The Plan for the weekend so far is as follows:
It will kick off on Sat a.m with some sessions and dedicated clinics for all levels: these will be hugely popular as there have been loads of requests from people looking to learn & perfect gybing / start procedures & also to get some rules for racing. Then in the afternoon we can put this into practice with some full on racing!

Throughout the whole weekend we’ll have the speed wall in use with the KING and QUEEN of the lake prize coming back!!!

Then Sunday will we’ll have some more clinics / coaching sessions in the am followed with some more racing in the afternoon: with prizes on offer!

Round 2 of the BWA wave competition will be held at Brandon Bay, Kerry from the 17th to 21st of May. Everyone is welcome and the event is open to all level of sailors. For more info check out www.britishwavesailingassociation.com/ireland.php

And don’t forget if your down that way the 2nd round of the Irish Slalom starts on the Saturday 22nd at Brandon too.  www.irishslalom.ie for more details.

That’s a full week…..