A rising tide lifts all boats and the end of the recession will lead to a significant increase in the number of yachts competing in one of the country’s premier sailing events.

The Royal Cork Yacht Club has confirmed a number of changes to the biennial Volvo Cork Week, to be held again next July.

In the end, as with so many sailing regattas it was the weather that proved the final arbiter for Volvo Cork Week 2016. Thick mist outside Cork Harbour denied most of the racing classes their final day yesterday.

A full programme of races started the biennial Volvo Cork Week yesterday as strong winds gave way to moderate offshore breezes for the 100-boat fleet competing around the harbour.

 

Crosshaven will be thronged with thousands of people over the next few days as sailing events for Volvo Cork Week kick off surrounded by onshore entertainment and with a special flypast by the air corps.

First erected at the Great Cork Exhibition, this cliff top home is perfectly pitched writes Tommy Barker.

Nearly 90 yachts are already confirmed to enter this year’s Volvo Cork Week — a noticeable increase on when the event was last held two years ago.

The Irish Naval Service set sail yesterday to help launch one of the country’s top international regattas.

An appropriately breezy day marked the official launch of the Beaufort Cup and Volvo Cork Week yesterday on board the LE Róisín off Cobh and close to the racecourse area for July’s biennial spectacle.

A bride and groom who took the plunge yesterday interrupted their wedding day to make a special donation to the RNLI.

Size: Sq m 168 (1,800 sq ft)

Size: Sq m 65 (700 sq ft)

Light winds at times led to delays off Roche’s Point yesterday as day three of Volvo Cork Week saw most of the fleet only return to shore nearing 6pm, but with three races completed.

If you happen to be in Cobh this afternoon, about lunchtime onwards watch out for a Cork Harbour tradition that has endured for the past 34 years.

The advertising partnership that helped to make the Cork Week sailing regatta an international event has ended with the Ford car brand being replaced as the title sponsor by Volvo.

House for sale, or house for sail?

Over 100 yachts took to Cork Harbour yesterday in a huge race to mark the final day of one of the country’s top regattas.

With few changes in Thursday’s overnight standings, Cork Week closed at Crosshaven last night after a spectacular 100-boat race off Roche’s Point and briefly around the inner harbour.

If anyone doubts that Ireland has more climate than weather, they should take a trip to Crosshaven, home to Cork Week 2012.

With Cork Week well into it’s programme and approaching it’s finale tomorrow, a change in conditions today could upset the overall standings in several key classes, although some leaders appear uncatchable.

Chasing the big boys on a 32-foot sailboat can be as much of a challenge as racing at Cork Week. That wasn’t the plan.

There was drama on and off the water during the second day of competitive sailing at Cork Week yesterday, with as much excitement on land as offshore.

Dutch entry Tonnerre de Breskens, owned by Piet Vroon, continued its foray into Irish waters this week by opening class zero at Cork Week with two emphatic race wins.

There were more high spirits than high winds to set the first day of competitive racing off to a breezy start at Cork Week yesterday as sailors and landlubbers descended on Crosshaven for the biennial event.

A positive forecast for at least the first three days of Cork Week is set to draw a bumper crowd to the annual sailing extravaganza.

A return to what many racing sailors of a certain generation may regard as the glory days of Cork Week is on the cards for the next seven days as the Royal Cork Yacht Club prepares to welcome visitors and friends from near and far.

Tangan house would suit those on the hunt for a holiday home, Tommy Barker reports

PAUL BRIERLEY has a cool head on him, for a man on a deadline.

Boats have already begun to sail into Crosshaven which this week hosts Cork Week, a biennial event of racing and rollicking that attracts hundreds of sailors worldwide to the Royal Cork Yacht Club.

Millions of euro are expected to be spent by visitors who will arrive in Cork in July to watch what is regarded as one of the world’s premier sailing events.

The world’s oldest yacht club is venturing into uncharted waters tonight by hosting its first ever cinema screening.

Tommy Barker was hugely impressed by this Currabinny home, thanks to its stunning location and tasty design.

A LEGENDARY boat builder’s dying wish was fulfilled when he was carried to his final resting place on the last boat he completed.

THE recession has forced one of the world’s oldest yacht club to trim its sails.

THE recession has forced one of the world’s oldest yacht club to trim its sails.

A WOMAN who spent two hours in the sea without a life jacket after falling from a yacht has described her ordeal as “terrifying”.

AS Cork Week enters its finale today, the traditional programme of races has been altered by yesterday’s near gale conditions off Roche’s Point.