Inter-Schools Sailing – Big Thank You
Hi everyone I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to everybody who volunteered and assisted in every and any way to make this past weekend with the Inter-Schools a super success for the Club. The event is a major undertaking for the Club and this year we had an...
41st All Ireland Inter-Schools Sailing
Day 2 arrived with great expectations of a little more breeze for the fleet than Saturday. The Fleets took to the water about 10:30 in 10-12 knots but that was really as good as it got. The clouds arrived with persistent mist rain and with it the wind dropped also....
41st All Ireland Inter-Schools Day 1
Optimist - With poor weather forecast for Sunday, PRO Paul 'PK' Kavanagh was considering 3 races for the day. The question, Was there enough wind to get even 2 races in? Racing commenced on time at 12.00. In a light shifty wind the left side of the beat on an ebb tide...
Follow Austin in Rio
In response to Jim's earlier note Austin O'Carroll has invited everyone at Sutton Dinghy Club to follow the teams progress on his twitter account - @austinoc_austin Hi Jim Thanks a million. Delighted for Annalise. Having great time here. Will be tweeting about paras...
Junior Racing Roundup – Aug 30th
The last 2 or 3 weeks has been a particularly busy period for the Clubs IDRA14 and GP14 fleets attending Open events. However a few in the Junior end of the Club have also had a quite a number of events in that period. Howth Yacht Club Dinghy Regatta - On Sat 28th of...
Commodore Letter to Austin
As you know the Rio Olympics is not quite over for the members of Sutton Dinghy Club. Our own Austin O'Carroll and his fellow sailors John Twomey and Ian Costelloe begin the Sonar sailing event on September 12th. A GP based in inner-city Dublin, Austin is an inspiring...
The last few days were about mental fortitude and singing‘
Our Mission
Captured in the words of Irish Sailing….
‘…..As an ISA recognised Training Centre and Category 1 Club, Sutton Dinghy Club supports our Vision to make sailing & boating more accessible to all. This club has been providing numerous facilities and programmes to a variety of community groups, schools and people with disabilities in the Fingal Area for a number of years now. The ISA use this club as a Flagship example to the rest of our clubs throughout Ireland as to how to involve the community other than its own members…’
