We are excited to announce that you will be able to enter Volvo Cork Week 2020, incorporating the ICRA National Championships online from Thursday November 28th.
The 2020 Volvo Cork Week will be a very special occasion as it takes place during the Royal Cork tricentenary, Cork300 celebrations and promises to be an amazing and memorable week in beautiful Cork Harbour.
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We are delighted to announce the dates for Volvo Cork Week 2020. Volvo Cork Week 2020 will be hosted on 13th to 18th July 2020 in the Royal Cork Yacht Club.
Volvo Cork Week 2020 is more than just an event…
The 2020 Volvo Cork Week promises to be even more special than ever before. In 2020 the Royal Cork Yacht Club will be celebrating the 300th anniversary of its founding in 1720.
In 2020 Cork, its harbour and its communities will proudly celebrate all that is on offer to visitors to Irelands Maritime Paradise with a series of events throughout the year. One of the core events to these celebrations will be Volvo Cork Week 2020, which is the …
“No water, no life. No blue, no green.”
– Sylvia Earle, Oceanographer, Mission Blue Foundation
Volvo Cork Week 2018 has been awarded Gold Certification by the International ‘Sailors for the Sea’ Clean Regatta programme with the event sustainability partners MaREI Centre for Marine & Renewable Energy and An Taisce’s Clean Coasts programme.
The Clean Regattas programme is the world’s only sustainability certification for water-based events. The initiative helps people run more environmentally friendly events to protect local waters and beyond, raising the bar for ocean health around the world. “We are thrilled to support the Volvo Cork Week in their efforts to educate participants on environmental protection by serving as a model for responsible sailing.”– Robyn Albritton, Sustainability Director, Sailors …
With the best score of any of the 120 boats over the past week, Rory Fekkes’ Fn’Gr8 (Carrickfergus Sailing Club) has been confirmed as the overall winner of Volvo Cork Week following an intense three-race final day. The Antrim boat was a convincing overall winner to the week despite several other strong performances in other classes but Fekkes had accumulated an impressive 19-point lead in his eleven-boat fleet.
“Best week ever! It’s the closest racing we’ve ever had,” Fekkes said even before learning of his overall event win. “We were hoping to get the overall win so we kept going to the end even though we only had sixth place to discard.” As for the 300th anniversary of the Royal …
The full armada of 120 yachts was out for the fourth day of Volvo Cork week. After a delayed start, a warm sea breeze blew into Volvo Cork Week to give over a thousand sailors champagne conditions in the Celtic Sea outside Cork Harbour. Leaders in all classes are emerging but many of them will be going to the wire. A pride of 13 Dragons and 10 powerful Cork 1720s started their Southern Championships today, taking part in two races with a building sea breeze off Power Head on a windward leeward course.
The Dragons were flying by the second race, with 15 knots of wind over tide powering the fleet up to full tilt. The racing was exceptional close, …
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