Northern Ireland Sailing Teams Junior sailors were out in force across multiple venues and classes last weekend.
Irish Sailing Junior Champions Cup 2025
Fastnet Marine & Outdoor Education Centre, Schull, Co. Cork
Sixteen of Ireland’s top Junior Helms were invited to take part in the cup, each nominated by their respective classes, normally by winning their National championships.
The event was a race in TR3.6, a one-design two-person team racing dinghy that would be foreign to all competitors, making the event a true test to be the most rounded sailor and able to pick up how to handle the new craft but an added complexity for the single-handed sailors, who had to find a crew.
Light airs delayed the opener but racing then got underway in sunshine champaign conditions.
Adam Green teamed up with fellow Topper Sailors Molly Hooper-Jones to finish 4th with four out of the 6 races in the top 3 including a race win.
Other NI Sailors representing were Cormac Byrne, Alex Eadie and James Eadie
Irish Sailing’s Racing Manager, Stephen O’Shaughnessy, highlighted the “array of talent coming through the youth system.”
RS Feva Northern Championships 2025
Cushendall Sailing & Boat Club
The RS Feva Northerns brought together 14 teams for a weekend of competitive double-handed dinghy racing.
NI Sailors took all top 5 Spots with Emily and Annabel Rideout discarding a 2nd place to take the event win counting 5 race wins. Notable achievements for some of the NI Topper Sailor’s Ben McCaldin and Leo West-Hurst who have been dabbling in the Feva and in their first event together secures 4th Place with a score line including a 2nd and a 3rd.
It is great to see our sailors competing and enjoying their time on the water, but see it across such an array of classes and race formats is impressive. It shows our wo
rk in developing the new classes and pathways is working and our young sailor are becoming much more rounded athletes and adaptable to new type of sailing.
Andrew Baker – RYAN I Performance Manger
Topper Traveller 3
Royal North of Ireland Yacht Club
Royal North of Ireland Yacht Club proudly hosted the third leg of the 2025 Topper Traveller series, welcoming young sailors from across Ireland for a day of competition on Belfast Lough.
Despite light and variable winds early in the day, the race management team managed to complete four races for both fleets. The 4.2 fleet had 17 entries showing the growing popularity of the Topper class among even younger sailors and Clubs.
Royal North was a great venue and highlighted the clubs developing junior fleets.
Results
- Irish Sailing Junior Champions FULL RESULTS
- RS FEVA Northern Championship FULL RESULTS
- RS Topper Traveller FULL RESULTS
