Fevas Join up with RS Family (and Olympians) for Events in 2013

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Published on Thursday, 28 March 2013 19:01

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Irish RS Family Come Together for RS200, RS400 & RSFeva Circuit in 2013

The RSFeva Association have confirmed they will join the RS200 & RS400 fleets on the 2013 Irish RS Circuit.

An unofficial ‘RS Pathway’, has in recent years helped retain Greystones youth sailors and come to embody the ISA ‘sailing for life’ motto. Sailors from 5 to 55 years, of all skill levels across the 3 RS fleets are on the start line together for Club racing. Those at the ‘more experienced’ end of the fleet hope to emulate the example of Liam Donnelly (RNIYC), who in his sixties, is snapping at the transom of young Olympians and currently lies third in the competitive Ballyholme Icebreaker series.

This experience has prompted the RS200/400 and RS Feva Associations to come together for the RS Circuit. First gun will be at the Royal St George Yacht Club at the end of April and will continue throughout the season up and down the country concluding in Lough Ree in October.

The Irish RS200/400/& Feva National Championships will be hosted by the Royal North of Ireland Yacht Club, a Club already enjoying the bigger RS boats yet new to the Feva. RNIYC, like other Clubs in the North and around the country, are looking for a doublehander alternative to the ISA/RYA Pathways to keep kids sailing. As the RS Fevas make inroads up North, we hope to see Ballyholme, North Down, Royal North and County Antrim Clubs being represented for the first time alongside the more seasoned Feva clubs up and down the country.

This Championship event will be the focal point of the first half of the Traveller Series for all 3 RS fleets in Ireland, boosted by a dramatic 10 new RS400 teams across Northern Ireland over the winter, including Irish Olympic 49er team Ryan Seaton and Matthew McGovern. The Olympic duo have taken the racing up to another level at the Ballyholme Icebreakers (when the weather allows!!) but already the fleet is responding, and Ryan and Matty are not having things all their own way.
10 Scottish teams are booked to come over using Stena Line’s helpful sponsorship discount, and several teams from the South of England and Midlands are also planning to attend. This could see a fleet of 35+ RS400s racing over three days of July 5-7.

Recent deliveries of 200s to Dun Laoghaire and a couple more due in Greystones will strengthen the Irish 200 class during 2013. Those who have trained or sailed through the winter in the DMYC Frostbites and Ballyhome Icebreakers will surely benefit from an early Nationals date. Greater challenges still are expected from the competitive UK visitors, as this event, with another in Carnac, forms the RS Eurocup for the RS200 and RS400. Dun Laoghaire Regatta also welcomes RS200/400 entries the following week and the second half of the season should prove interesting, with a battle on the seas for the Traveller Trophies across the three fleets.

Clubs and classes will be holding Coaching Clinics and Try Out sessions over the season. We look forward to more sailors enjoying the one design experience of the Irish RS Family with crews of all generations and genders racing together. Boat design allows seamless transition and progression up the fleets as skills develop. Owners are thrilled with boats that remain competitive over many years so it is boat handling, tactics and team work that win out every time.

Visit our websites, which display the Irish RS Family Circuit, Irish National Championships Notice of Race, other events further afield and details of coaching clinics and Try Out sessions as they emerge. . http://irl.rs200sailing.org/index.asp?selection=Events&Fleet=RS200 and http://irl.rs400.org/index.asp?selection=Events&Fleet=RS400 .

2013 Events Calendar

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Published on Thursday, 28 March 2013 18:58

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RS Feva, RS 200 and RS 400 Events Calendar 2013

RS Irish Southern Championships - October 6th & 7th

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Published on Friday, 28 September 2012 22:54

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Don't forget the last event of the season at Greystones Sailing Club on the 6th and 7th of October. The RS Irish Southern Championships, in conjunction with the RS 400 and RS 200 classes promises to provide excellent Feva racing on the same courses as the larger boats!

Link to the Greystones Sailing Club website for the Notice of Race and Entry Form. 

Eoin Lyden Second at Junior All Ireland Sailing Championship

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Published on Friday, 28 September 2012 21:46

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Congratulations to Eoin Lyden, the 2012 Feva National Champion and the Feva Class representative at the Junior All Ireland Sailing Championship. Eoin and his crew Darragh McCormack from the Royal Cork Yacht Club sailed an excellent event against a very strong field in Schull to take second place from his cousin, local boy Fionn Lyden and beating Finn Lynch, the 2012 ISAF Youth Worlds silver medallist intyo third place.

Blathnaid O'Connell from the Royal St George along with her crew Conor Maguire, from the Royal Irish Yacht Club also represented the class at the event over the weekend of the 22nd and 23rd of September.

Read the full event report from the ISA here  and the Afloat Magazine report here.

RS FEVA Northern Championships

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Published on Monday, 03 September 2012 22:07

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The combined RS Classes travelled North to Strangford Lough Yacht Club on the weekend of the the 15th and 16th of September. A small but quality entry of Fevas competed in interesting and blustery conditions with local crew Robbie and Peter Gilmore coming out on top with a very consistent string of results.

Get the results and some event photos here and read the Afloat magazine event report here.

2012 Irish RS Feva Nationals at Howth Yacht Club

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Published on Wednesday, 29 August 2012 22:14

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The 2012 Irish RS Feva National Championships were held in conjunction with the Irish National Championships for the RS 200s and RS 400s this year in Howth Yacht Club, Howth, County Dublin from Friday the 17th to Sunday the 19th of August.

In all 54 boats in three RS classes for the RS400, RS200 and RS Feva competed. Despite shifty wind conditions on the Friday and Saturday (including a 100 degree wind shift) with wind strengths between 8 and 15 knots, a ten-race regatta was successfully completed by PRO David Lovegrove and his team. 

In the Fevas, with 26 entries, GB sailors dominated with Elliott Wells and Jake Todd from Hayling Island winning the series, while the Cork crew of Eoin Lyden and Brian Stokes - as the leading Irish crew in 6th spot - took the honours as Feva National Champions.

Full results are available at www.hyc.ie, Fotosail Photos are availabale at www.fotosail.com. Prizegiving photos are at www.hyc.ie

RS Feva Munsters

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Published on Monday, 09 July 2012 22:30

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RS Feva Munsters

For a second year running, Monkstown Bay Sailing Club hosted a very successful and enjoyable RS Feva Munster Championships. The event was sponsored by Fun Boats Ltd, the Irish RS boats distributor. Special thanks to MBSC and all their volunteers for their organisation and hospitality.

A fleet of 14 boats made up of the local MBSC fleet and visitors from the Royal Irish Yach Club and the Royal Cork Yacht Club raced a series of six races: three races on Saturday in strong blustery conditions and three races on Sunday in light variable conditions.

Results are available on the Monkstown Bay Sailing Club website, www.mbsc.ie

A note from the Webmaster

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Published on Monday, 07 May 2012 13:30

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Greetings everybody.

Our first flush of events are now complete with the Mistsubishi Irish Youth Championships and RS Feva Leinster Championships in Dun Laoghaire (results here and some photos taken by Brendan Cassidy here - Brendan can give you full sized copies if you'd like them) and the RS Combined classes Inland Regatta at Lough Ree Sailing Club (results here).

If anyone would like to write up a short report on either event, or has any other photos, please send them to us and we'll put them up on the site.

There's a bit of a break now for exams etc. and the next Irish based event is the Munsters, in Monkstown Bay Sailing Club, on the 23rd and 24th of June. Make sure  it's in your diaries!

Please don't forget, anyone who is planning on going to the RS Feva Worlds in Hayling Island in July, there are limited places available for Irish boats and, if you haven't entered yet, get your entry in ASAP!

If anyone has anything they'd like to see on the site, just drop us an email, and don't forget the Boats for Sale and Crew Available sections.

Inland Championships, Lough Ree - A Letter from Brenda!

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Published on Sunday, 22 April 2012 22:03

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Hi All,

Well it was a heck of a week.  Between the Jonathan Lewis Training Session in the RIYC (18 mostly new boats took part) and the amazing ISA Mitsubishis and Leinster Championships last weekend – it was pretty hectic.  We had 15 boats at the Mitsis and so many were new sailors – well done to you all.  The Fevas sailed on 3 different courses in Dun Laoghaire, cutting in and out of amongst 360 boats of all classes.  Top sailers in all directions and the Fevas showed their grit.  Proud moment J.  The Weather was all over the place, the tides were all over the place.  Friday was light winds, Saturday howled and Sunday was fortunately moderate enough for everyone to go out again and slug it out for final places.  Twitter was the business keeping us up to date on shore and in our offices.  Have a look here for the results http://www.rsgyc.ie/mitsubishi_results/2012results-feva.htm but what was really great was that half the prize winners had never really sailed a Feva before this year.

Read more: Inland Championships, Lough Ree - A Letter from Brenda!

Jonathan Lewis Clinic - Royal Irish Yacht Club, Dun Laoghaire - April 9th to 11th

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Published on Friday, 30 March 2012 17:38

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Training with Jonathon Lewis: Royal Irish Yacht Club, Dun Laoghaire 9^th to 11^th April.

Top UK Feva Coach Jonathon Lewis will be giving a Training Course for the FEVAs from Monday, April 9th to Wednesday the 11th, Venue Royal Irish Yacht Club – just in time for the ISA Mitsubishi Championships and RS Feva Leinster Championships.

Read more: Jonathan Lewis Clinic - Royal Irish Yacht Club, Dun Laoghaire - April 9th to 11th

Mitsubishi Youth Nationals 2012 including the RS Feva Leinster Championships

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Published on Monday, 05 March 2012 23:01

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The 2012 RS Feva Leinster Championships will be held in conjunction with the Mitsubishi Youth Nationals. More details to follow....

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2012 Events - A letter from the Class Secretary!

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Published on Sunday, 26 February 2012 00:42

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The Feva calendar kicks off with what I know will be our most dynamic in years.  The Feva fleet will be joining in with some of its bigger brothers the RS 200s and RS400s at 4 new regattas.  We trialed this idea last year and it made for a great buzz event in Ballyholme.

We are really excited by the opportunities that joining with the wider RS family brings us, lots of racing and superb regattas to choose from.  We would really encourage as many as possible to join us at the Worlds – it’s across the water in Hayling Island, near Portsmouth, fantastic event and very doable for a family trip.

Read more....2012 Events - A letter from the Class Secretary!