National Yacht Club

The National Yacht Club is pleased to announce that Subaru have come on board as official “Vehicle Partner” for 2018/2019 and to include the Flying Fifteen Worlds in September 2019.

This partnership will run alongside our existing partners Davy.

At a recent launch of the partnership Commodore Ronan Beirne commented:
“The National Yacht Club is delighted to partner with Subaru as the club’s “Vehicle partner” and for the Flying Fifteen World Championships to take place in September 2019. Subaru is a quality brand and to endorse the National Yacht Club as “Vehicle partner” and for the Flying Fifteen world championship hosted by the Club allows us to share the Subaru brand definition of  “confidence in motion” as our members enjoy sailing and as we prepare for the only World sailing Championships to take place in Irish waters in 2019″

View the photo gallery of the announcement here

In a tense climax to the Laser Master World Championships in Dun Laoghaire, Mark Lyttle won his first World Laser Title when he clinched the 66-boat Grand Master division on Dublin Bay, some 22 years after representing Ireland in the Laser class at the Atlanta Olympic Games.

Mark, a long standing Overseas Member of the National Yacht Club and who was a race winner at the Atlanta Games, hit this Worlds event in an age sweet–spot (he’s just turned 55) and qualified for the GrandMaster division (the biggest fleet in the event) to win it on the first occasion.
The Multi Irish champion won the UK Laser Masters Championships in June in some style, with six firsts in eight races but today’s World title will easily eclipse that and its made all the sweeter by winning on home waters too!
For additional coverage of this event and a full list of results, please visit www.afloat.ie or http://2018masters.laser-worlds.com/