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...
New Marks now laid & Doldrum Bay Cleanup
With racing underway for the last few weeks, great to see the handy work of Aidan Henry at close quarters. Aidan has cleaned and painted all the marks and on our trip for the Doldrum Bay Cleanup this weekend to collect the rubbish we got up close to the new Tower and...
Commodore notes the passing of Archie O’Leary
Archie O’Leary was well known to Sutton sailors of his generation both from his reputation as a sailing supremo in Cork and also from visiting Sutton in the early years to sail in the Book Trophy or 'The Sutton Book' as it was referred to in Cork. More recently in...
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…’
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…’
