Bayside Youth Club – Splash & DASH
On Saturday 25th, Bayside Youth Clubs arrived for a splash and dash outing in Sutton Dinghy Club. Just over twenty kids from the local Youth Club enjoyed a bit of sailing, surfing and a swim down at the Bailey jumps. The Bayside Youth Club have turned this into...
June 23rd – Racing round up
Firstly apologies for not including an update on the IDRA14 Northerns sailed in Rostrevor in last weeks Racing Update. Check out the link to the full event report. Congratulations to Alan Henry and Simon Revil on their victory. Alan and Simon were joined by 3 other...
Howth and Sutton Coastal Clean-up
Following on from the Beach Clean-up on May 28th, Fingal Co Co have posted a video on You Tube highlighting the workand effort of Patrick Jackson and the Doldrum Bay volunteers as well as Sutton Dinghy Club and Portmarnock Sub-Aqua Club. Over 100 bags of rubbish was...
Starfish is King of the Bay
Last weekend Alan Carr and Dana Kilroy in 14/136 Starfish were crowned King of the Bay, held as part of the DMYC Regatta. Starfish won the pursuit race, holding off a Dun Laoghaire IDRA and Sean Craigs Flying Fifteen. In the second race, Starfish racing under PY also...
Jun 13th – Racing round-up
A quick round up of some racing news involvng Sutton Dinghy Club sailors over the last couple of weeks that included HYC's Lambay Race, the UK Womens Keelboat Championship held on south coast of England at Hamble and last weekends DMYC Regatta and ICRA Championships...
Try Sailing – great evening
Sutton Dinghy Club's Mandy Kelly organised another Try Sailing get together on a beautiful evening. The evening attracted 20 aspiring sailors from a number of the local schools including Bayside Primary, Burrow National and St. Fintans Primary. The pupils enjoyed a...
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…’
