National Yacht Club

The cruising group’s winter programme concluded on Thursday 3rd of April with a talk on Weather at sea by Willemien Van Hoeve (see below). Frank Cassidy’s talk on his involvement in the ARC race was so popular that we had to run it twice.

Equally successful was the talk by Barbara & Frank Fitzgibbon on their […]

What memorable weather! The trade-off for seemingly endless weeks of sun was less wind than normal. Sales of diesel rocketed. Those who cruised the Irish coast, in August especially, found themselves in Cote de Glandore or Porta Kilmore – it was wonderful!

Wives, partners and bank managers were confronted by brazen, bronzed, bewitched skippers confidently justifying […]

Our recent speaker supper with Willemien van Hoeve was very successful. As a topic for a speaker supper weather was rather technical and notwithstanding a deliberate policy of “lightening it up” the risk of the topic becoming disconnected from the audience remained. This was a tricky task well delivered by Willemien. – Our thanks to […]

Representative of the Cruising Groups of NYC, RIYC, RStG, DYMC, HYC and Galway Bay SC met in the NYC on Saturday 23rd March to finalise preparations for the launch of the Cruising Association of Ireland. The ISA was also represented at the meeting.

The Association is to be launched by the Minister for Sport Frank Fahey […]

The workshop on Saturday 9th February run by Dermot Hicks for the NYC Cruising Group was a great success. After an overview of diesel engine principles Dermot took us through the fuel system, lube, cooling, filtration and peripherals. A stripped down engine was available indoors for closer examination and a working launch engine was also […]