Lough Ree Yacht Club

Lough Ree Yacht Club fleets
Shannon One Designs, Keelboats, SB20s, Optimists, Mirrors, 420's Some of the original fleet still continues to race.

Lough Ree Yacht Club is a sailing club based in Ballyglass, Coosan, near Athlone, Ireland. The record of pleasure sailing on the waters around Athlone goes back to 1731 but organized club sailing did not start until 1770 when the club was founded, albeit under a different original name. Lough Ree Yacht Club claims to be the second oldest yacht clubs in the world, although The Royal Cork Yacht Club

has proven to be the world's first and oldest yacht club. In any event it is probably the oldest club based on an inland lake.The tradition of organized pleasure boating in Athlone goes back to at least 1731, with a regatta on the River Shannon amongst the 'diversions' promised for a festival week in the town. Athlone is founded on the River Shannon, just south of Lough Ree, the second largest of Ireland's big lakes.Early activities appear to have involved a rendezvous at some agreed place and a cruise in company in the manner of a naval flotilla but racing eventually developed. From these incidental activities an organization in the form of a club was established. Originally it was known as Athlone Yacht Club and was renamed Lough Ree Yacht Club in 1895, probably because by this time most its members sailed out of a small, sheltered bay at Ballyglass, on Lough Ree itself; Ballyglass is recorded as the venue of the Annual Regatta as early as 1836.The Club Members have since, the early twentieth century, owned their own premises. Recently, on July 25th 2006, new, larger premises were officially opened, as the second substantial expansion of the clubhouse premises. Yet the original building built in the early twentieth century is now a "building-within-a-building", in that it now functions as the office housed entirely within the clubhouse proper.The Club is closely, but not exclusively, associated with the Shannon-One-Design (SOD), a single-sail class of open clinker built boat. The SOD was designed by Morgan Giles of Teignmouth and it was introduced to the Club in 1922 in response to a growing demand for a one-design competitive and less expensive dinghy. Over a hundred and forty have now been built for the Shannon Lakes, almost all by the master craftsmen such as Walter Levinge, Peter Quigley, and Jimmy Furey of Lough Ree. Other than SOD's, the Club is made up of a few barge owners, as well as a mixed cruiser class and a junior section, both of which are very active. Junior sailing was introduced in 1968, and today instructs beginners with a fleet of Optimist, Laser, Mirror and Laser Pico dinghies. The largest and most significant event run by the club annually is the Annual Regatta commencing on the August Bank Holiday.

Operating as usual

27/08/2024

Well done Cillian & Team Headcase!

'Headcase' are Irish J24 Champions 2024 on Lough Erne: Cillian Dickson, Sam O'Byrne, Ryan Glynn, Marcus Ryan, and Louis Molloy, as reigning European champions, continue to dominate J24 racing, winning the Lough Erne Yacht Club-hosted Irish Championships from 23rd to 25th August in style. Entries came from throughout Ireland,…

https://afloat.ie/sail/sailing-classes/j24s/item/64488-headcase-are-irish-j24-champions-2024-on-lough-erne

03/08/2024

Well done Rob & Sean Team Dickson Waddilove 49er Ireland! & so true, you have already inspired many young sailors.

29/07/2024

Great to see the LRYC ensign flying high in Marseille!! Team Dickson Waddilove 49er Ireland Keep the flag flying David !!

29/07/2024

Well done Team Dickson Waddilove 49er Ireland! Half way through now & in 2nd position even with disqualification in R6 today, keep it up!!

Sailing ⛵️

Dickson and Waddilove finish today in 2nd place 🇮🇪 👏

28/07/2024

Great start for Team Dickson Waddilove 49er Ireland !!

Olympic Race Win for Ireland’s Dickson and Waddilove Puts them Second Overall After Day One of Men’s Skiff Competition in Marseille: The first of three Irish boats in the 2024 Olympics got their campaign underway in Marseilles today. Robert Dickson (HYC) and Sean Waddilove (SSC) took to the water in their 49er, Ireland’s entry in the Men’s Skiff class. Three races…

https://afloat.ie/sail/olympic-sailing/paris-2024/item/64136-olympic-race-win-for-ireland-s-dickson-and-waddilove-puts-them-second-overall-after-day-one-of-men-s-skiff-competition-in-marseille

Plain Sailing: Team Dickson Waddilove 49er Sailors Prepare for Paris Olympics 2024

26/07/2024

Let the games begin! Best of luck to Team Dickson Waddilove 49er Ireland, action starts this Sunday. We are so proud of Rob's sailing association with our Club, best of luck Rob & Sean!

Plain Sailing: Team Dickson Waddilove 49er Sailors Prepare for Paris Olympics 2024 In 2022 Savills became proud sponsors of Team Dickson Waddilove, a 49er sailing duo of Seán Waddilove and Robert Dickson, as they began preparation to repres...

21/07/2024

Now that was fun! Double Ree 2024, done & dusted! Thank you to all who attended, we hope you enjoyed. As importantly, thanks to the many members who made it happen! Credit to Gerard Groarke for fabulous drone footage.

DoubleRee 2024 @ LRYC Some drone footage showing the Mirror, RS Feva, 420, and 29er fleets in action.

20/07/2024

Day 1, Double Ree. Irelands premier junior double handed event, held every 2 years & first held in 2018. Boats barely made it to the start line this morning with light winds & within 20 minutes, pushing 20 knts breeze, real lake sailing!

19/07/2024

Sailing Coosan point some years ago. Shannon one boat class are over 100 years old with boats staying in families over the generations. LYRC Passage race.

15/07/2024

Highlights from Week 1 and 2 of our 2024 ⛵️

12/07/2024

⛵️Adult Dinghy Sailing Course⛵️
Don't miss out and grab a place on our FINAL Adult Dinghy Sailing Course.

➡️ Mon 15th - Fri 19th Jul
➡️ 6:15pm to 9pm
➡️ €160 which includes club membership until the end of 2024

All are welcome and no sailing experience is necessary.

Please spread the word with your non-member friends too!

12/07/2024

Some snippets from our Adult Sailing Course taking place this week. Well done to all the participants, we hope you have enjoyed the week - despite the weather!

25/06/2024

Adult Sailing Courses 2024....
Don't miss out and grab one of the remaining places on either of our July evening courses.
More information and booking is via our website - www.lryc.ie/adult-sailing-course/.
All are welcome and no sailing experience is necessary.
You get provisional membership to the club for the rest of the season and our members are always looking for crew.
Please spread the word!

16/06/2024

14/06/2024

Well done Cillian Dickson & crew of Headcase! Fantastic results..we will keep tracking these results!

07/06/2024

We wish Rob & Seán all the best!

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/RzsV7XsR2fnr4ZAC/?

Olympian 49ers Rob Dickson & Sean Waddilove Make The Clear Cut For 2024 Olympics In France (Video): While many reckoned that the "Fingal Flyers" duo of Rob Dickson and Sean Waddilove had taken Ireland's 49er place for the July-August 2024 Sailing Olympiad in Marseilles before Christmas 2023 had passed, it was still theoretically possible until very recently…

https://afloat.ie/sail/olympic-sailing/robert-dickson-sean-waddilove/item/63442-olympian-49ers-rob-dickson-sean-waddilove-make-the-clear-cut-for-2024-olympics-in-france

20/05/2024

Well done to Ben Graf & Luke Johnston, some great results!!

Photos from International Optimist Dinghy Association Ireland iodai's post

05/05/2024

Great to welcome Optimist fleet to LRYC.

29/04/2024

It was great to have had the ILCA fleet at LRYC this weekend, well done to all who competed & to those that helped in the organisation.

Congrats to Conor Cronin Royal St George Yacht Club/Malahide Yacht Club, Caoilinn McDonnell (RSGYC) and Andrew O Neill of Royal Cork Yacht Club who took first, second and third respectively in ILCA 4 class over the weekend at Lough Ree Yacht Club for the Irish Sailing Youth Nationals.

https://sailing.ie/News/id/12355

14/11/2023

Well done Rob & Sean !

IRISH 49er’s ARE GOING TO PARIS 🇫🇷🇮🇪

Team Dickson Waddilove have today secured Irelands spot in the Men’s Skiff class at the Paris 2024 Olympics 🎉👏🏼

Let’s go Team Ireland ☘️

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