After a very long battle Paul Murphy passed away peacefully on Saturday evening.
Paul has served Irish sailing as a National Umpire and National Judge for many years and in 2002 was appointed by ISAF to serve as an International Judge. He is well known to almost all sailors in Ireland having worked both on the water and ashore in his role as Judge for many classes. He is particularly well known for his work with the Laser and J/24 Class Associations and attended many of their National, European and World championship regattas. Paul was assiduously fair in his interpretation and application of the Racing Rules of Sailing and frequently would go out of his way to help a young sailor to understand why he gave him a penalty.
Along with his roles as an Umpire and Judge he served on the ISA Racing Rules Appeal Board and also on the ISA Tribunal. He was a member of the National Yacht Club and Royal Alfred Yacht Club where he served as Vice Commodore until earlier this year and was particularly pleased to be involved in the Alfred’s 150th anniversary celebrations in 2007. He will be missed his many friends in Ireland and around the world. Ed A ISA

Published - 19 October 2009

Adrian Lee will be testing his mettle in the offshore series this season sailing his new acquisition from Ger O'Rourke namely the Cookson 50 'Chieftan' renamed 'Lee Overlay' with Kiwi Scott Wilson as skipper. Chieftan won the Fastnet race in 2007 and was named RAYC boat of the Year last season.

Published - 29 April 2008

The Alfred celebrated its Sesquicentennial birthday party with traditional game and claret in the Royal Marine Hotel Dun Laoghaire. The current waterfront and Alfred past Commodores enjoyed the company of over one hundred and fifty corinthian sailors at the Ball. Tim Goodbody former Commodore of ten years standing, proposed the toast to the Alfred tracing the achievements of the Alfred as scribed by Hal Sisk in establishing the rules and handicaps for Corinthian racing. Brian Craig was awarded the John O'Leary Memorial Trophy for his outstanding effort in establishing the Dun Laoghaire Regatta. Ger O'Rourke's Chieftain was awarded the Yacht of the 150th Year after his boats exceptional performance in winning the 2007 Fastnet Race outright and a string of class wins. The past Commodores Tim Goodbody, Geoff Whelan, Dick Lovegrove (in absensia) , Norman Long, Kieran Jameson (in absensia) Clare Hogan & Tino Hyland were presented with cancelled ensigns by current Commodore Ailbe Millerick.

Published - 21 November 2007

Ger O'Rourkes Chieftain which won the Fastnet Race overall is the RAYC Boat of the Year. She is crewed from a panel of 30 Corinthians and delighted the sailing fraternity with her stunning performance.
Chieftain declared Fastnet winner Thursday, 16 August 2007
The Irish yacht Chieftain, owned by Ger O'Rourke from Limerick, has been declared the official winner of the Rolex Fastnet Yacht Race after completion of the race in Plymouth last night. The Bruce Farr-designed Cookson 50 carbon fibre yacht finished at 19:43:44 local time with an elapsed sailing time of 55:04:43. The 608 mile event is one of toughest off-shore sailing races in the world and this victory is a major sporting success for Ireland. Chieftain will be awarded the Fastnet Challenge Cup and a Rolex Yachtmaster timepiece at the prize-giving on Friday, 17 August at the historic Royal Citadel in Plymouth.

Published - 9 November 2007

The Royal Alfred 150 Prizegiving & Ball will be held in the Royal Marine Hotel Dun Laoghaire 17 November 2007. Book with sec@RAYC.ie

Published - 3 October 2007
Attachment - Alfred150 dinner

The Alfred enters it's 150th season this year and wishes all it's members a Happy New Year. The 150th Regatta will be sailed on Bloomsday 2007 (16th June) both in Dublin Bay and Howth. The draft program is available from the downloads tab or email: admin@rayc.org

Published - 2 January 2007

Matt Davis and his crew enjoy receiving the Lee-Overlay Trophy at the prizegiving dinner in the Royal St George Yacht Club. Adrian Lee's Irisha took the runner up prize with Oliver Sheehy's White Tiger third. The Alfred Commodore Ailbe Millerick thanked Adrian for sponsoring the series in its inaugural year. Adrian has committed Lee-Overlay to sponsoring the racing for five years to 2009. The program will continue in 2007 with day and Overnight racing.

Published - 15 December 2006

Royal Alfred Yacht Club founded in 1857 is 150 years old next year and the Flag Officers and Committee are planning a big celebration Regatta. More details will emerge during the Autumn. The Royal Alfred has many firsts in the development of Yacht Racing which we continue to promote today and is quite simply: the world's oldest specifically amateur yacht club (founded 1857)
The world's first offshore racing club (1868-1922)
The first club to organise single and double handed yacht races
The prime mover behind the formation of the world's first national yacht racing organisation (1872)
And finally, its two Flag Officers are credited with the authorship of the first national yacht racing rules, which are at the core of today's racing rules worldwide. Interestingly, three of today's Flag Officers are International ISAF Race Judges, Umpires and Race Officers maintaining the long tradition of contributing to race administration.

Published - 26 August 2006

The DL Regatta Championships were a huge success, despite the Dublin Bay winds playing games and providing head wrecking situations for SRO's Henry Leonard, Hal Bleakely, Tony O'Gorman, Jack Roy and Colin McMullen. Although the big boats had the short end of the wind most classes completed good race programs Henry and Colin gleaning the best for their fleets mid bay. On shore the org was faultless in the race office led by Catriona McNally and the large volumes of results were churned and revised after protest with incredible speed by Valerie Kinnear's Results Team. The stars though were Ciara Dowling Regatta Sec and Brian Craig Chairman who worked tirelessly throughout to keep the show running on the water and ashore. Thanks to everybody who helped make it all such a fantastic success. Roll on 2007!!

Published - 11 July 2005