Monthly Meeting
2023-10-02 19:00 - 21:00, 2023-11-06 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Howth Yacht Club, Middle Pier, Howth Harbour, Howth, Dublin, D13 E6V3, Ireland
Asgard Room. All are welcome.

RYA Day Skipper Theory Course (Winter)
2023-10-04 08:00 - 2024-02-07 17:00 | Howth Yacht Club, Middle Pier, Howth Harbour, Howth, Dublin, D13 E6V3, Ireland
Starting on Wednesday Oct 4th and running through to February 2024. All the essential information you should know when you go afloat (tides, weather, safety, buoyage, collision regulations, etc). David Jerrard of Seacraft.ie and a HYC member is both highly experienced and hugely entertaining. Contact him on david@seacraft.ie to book and meet other sailors to share experience…

Tuesday Talk: Pat Lawless
2023-10-24 19:30 - 21:30
“Solo, non-stop, unassisted round the world 30,000 mile race. Nine months at sea alone in a small boat (GREEN REBEL), the Golden Globe Race is the longest and loneliest sporting event in the World. It will entail stepping back to the Golden Age of solo sailing, with no modern technology.”
That’s the Golden Globe Race. A voyage for mad people? the Golden Globe is widely regarded as the toughest and loneliest race in sailing. Competitors are not permitted to set foot on land or receive assistance for the duration of the race. Communication with family and friends is also prohibited. In keeping with the spirit of the first Golden Globe Race competitors can only use 1968 technology when navigating. Pat Lawless took part in the 2022 version but had to retire in Cape Town because of a broken self-steering gear. A tremendous achievement to get to the start line and to sail through the North and South Atlantics. But not enough for him – he has entered the 2026 Race! “Unfinished business” he calls it…
Regardless of what you think, come and hear him talk in HYC on Tuesday 24 October at 7.30pm. It will be a riveting talk – his energy and drive comes across as he takes the audience through his project and what draws him back for another go. There is free admission but a donation to the RNLI would be appreciated.
Put the date in your diary!
Check out Pat’s website here.

First Aid at Sea
2023-11-11 08:00 - 17:00 | Howth Yacht Club, Middle Pier, Howth Harbour, Howth, Dublin, D13 E6V3, Ireland
This one-day course by RemoteMedic costs €130 and includes a 3-year cert and RORC handbook. A small number of places are still available; contact info@remotemedic.ie and say that you are a member of HYC!
First Aid at Sea

Tuesday Talk: High Latitude Cruising with Joe Phelan
2023-11-21 19:30 - 21:30
Joe Phelan and Peter Killen have voyaged to Greenland and Antarctica (and points in between). On Tuesday 21 November at 7.30pm in the Asgard Room, they will revisit some of those voyages, illustrated by some breathtaking photos.
Among the journeys to be discussed:
1. Greenland West Coast (1995)
2. North Cape, Norway (1998)
3. Round Iceland (2002)
4. Antarctic Peninsula to 65 degrees south (2004/2005)
5. Svalbard to 80 degrees north (2008)
6. Greenland again to 70 degrees north (2015)
Admission is free and donations to the RNLI will be welcome.

Into the Deep with Ken O'Sullivan
2023-11-28 19:30 - 21:30
As part of our Tuesday Talks series, Howth Yacht Club is delighted to announce that underwater cameraman Ken O’Sullivan, whose work has been featured on RTÉ’s NORTH ATLANTIC: The Dark Ocean, and Ireland’s Deep Atlantic) will do a live show at HYC!
On Tuesday, 28 November, at 7:30 p.m., Ken will provide Howth Yacht Club with a multimedia experience about his adventures diving in the North Atlantic ocean, encountering enormous whales, monstrous sharks, and exploring the amazing underwater world. He will show videos and give insight and backstories into what it’s like trying to navigate this vast ocean, and to find and film some of the largest animals ever to have lived. Conservation and education have always been at the heart of Ken’s documentaries and he will also talk about some of the great challenges facing our marine animals and habitats, and how — after donating his documentaries to education — his work now features on the secondary school curriculum in Ireland.
This is a ticketed event. HYC members (and their guests) have the first opportunity to purchase a ticket for what is sure to be a sold-out show, so don’t delay!
GET YOUR TICKET NOW

Cruising Group Awards Dinner
2023-12-01
The annual awards dinner for the Cruising Group. Book your ticket!

Monthly Meeting
2023-12-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Howth Yacht Club, Middle Pier, Howth Harbour, Howth, Dublin, D13 E6V3, Ireland
Change of date! Originally scheduled for the 4th of December, this meeting will now be held on Tuesday, the 12th of December in the Asgard Room. All are welcome.

Monthly Meeting
2024-02-05 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-03-04 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-04-29 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-06-04 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-07-01 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-09-02 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-10-07 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-11-04 19:00 - 21:00 and 1 more date | Howth Yacht Club, Middle Pier, Howth Harbour, Howth, Dublin, D13 E6V3, Ireland
Held in the Asgard Room. All are welcome.

Quiz Night
2024-02-13 19:30 - 21:30 | Howth Yacht Club, Middle Pier, Howth Harbour, Howth, Dublin, D13 E6V3, Ireland
Join us for a night of trivia and fun!

Starting Racing & Intro to White Sails Class with Feargal Kinsella & Dermot Skehan
2024-03-26 19:30 - 22:00
The “Countdown To Club Racing” Talks Series is on: discover how you can develop a new passion for racing, or improve your racing skills to win races during the summer.
Check the talks calendar and join in with your crew for the first appointment
Tuesday, 26th March at 7.30 pm
Starting Racing and Intro to White Sails Class
with

Feargal Kinsella

Dermot Skehan

Racers and Non-Racers, all Members Welcome!

Monthly Meeting & Talk with Bob Fannin
2024-04-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Howth Yacht Club, Middle Pier, Howth Harbour, Howth, Dublin, D13 E6V3, Ireland
Held in the Asgard Room. All are welcome.
A night not to be missed with Bob Fannin‘s entertaining talk at 8 pm on his life, sailing and … how to sail without Making Waves!
A taste of what you can expect on the night in Bob’s own words
I started sailing aged 10 at Clontarf Yacht and Boat Club. Five years later, I joined the crew of fishing trawlers in Howth. Then I was a paid deckhand on a Malahide conversion – they were Portuguese trawler hulls converted to motor-yachts, heading from Howth to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, via the Mediterranean, west Africa, the Caribbean and Bahamas.

In 1978, I sailed with John Gore Grimes, my father, and others, from Howth to Iceland and back. A year later, again with John, we sailed Shardana from Marblehead in Massachusetts to Cork for the feeder race for the disastrous Fastnet of 1979. The following year we sailed Shardana up to Spitzbergen, tried to get around it, couldn’t, (there was ice back in those days) and capsized on the way home.

Next up I sailed with Jack Coffee from Dublin to New York, via the Azores, and then back to Dublin again, Commander Bill King was one of the crew for the leg out. 1982, Bill and I, sailed the 40ft Nicholson Ghostwing from Troon in Scotland to Newport, Rhode Island. There, Brian Moore, owner of Ghostwing, asked me to take his boat to the Caribbean and work aboard it as charter skipper for the winter. And so started a career as a charter skipper in the Caribbean and Mediterranean, and many trans- Atlantics on mostly classic yachts.

Cruising Group Breakfast
2024-04-13 10:00 - 14:00 | Howth Yacht Club, Middle Pier, Howth Harbour, Howth, Dublin, D13 E6V3, Ireland

Baldoyle Bay Seagrass Restoration Project Presentation
2024-04-26 19:00 - 20:00
Did you know that 150 years ago, seagrass was flourishing in Baldoyle Estuary? And that now, there is virtually none.
Why does that matter? Because seagrass captures and stores carbon, filters water, prevents erosion and supports bio-diversity.
Now, the Baldoyle Bay Seagrass Restoration Project aims to revive the lost seagrass ecosystem in Baldoyle Estuary with the participation of local communities and government.
If seagrass can be grown here successfully, it will provide a blueprint that can be rolled out nationally.
In this talk, project co-founders Eveann Nolan of Ocean Breakers from Sutton and Cllr. Joan Hopkins from Baldoyle – two committed, locals with no background in Marine Science – will explain how, through sheer determination and passion, the community can get seagrass thriving again in our local area.
Let’s meet in Howth Yacht Club:
Friday, 26th April at 7PM
Don’t miss this appointment and share this invitation with your family and friends: it is our opportunity to live in a healthier, biologically preserved local environment!
Register online at: https://bit.ly/3U3cU2o

Art and Science of Weather Forecasting with Joanna Donnelly
2024-10-29 19:30 - 21:30
Rain or shine, with her warm presence and expert insights, Joanna Donnelly is a trusted voice in Irish weather forecasting.
Joanna is a Dubliner and she went to Dublin City University where she studied Applied Maths. After university she worked in a college in Dublin before joining Met Éireann in 1995, working as a meteorological officer before being promoted to meteorologist in 2000.
She has been working as a forecaster and broadcasting on RTÉ Radio 1 since February 2002. She began TV broadcasting in December 2015 and presents RTÉ One and RTÉ2 weather bulletins.
Joanna Donnelly will be at HYC on Tuesday, 29 October at 7.30 PM to talk about the art and science of weather forecasting.
Book your seats today: https://bit.ly/3Nhbb5t
This is a free event open to HYC Members with family and friends.

Cruising Group Awards Dinner
2024-12-07 19:00 - 22:30 | Howth Yacht Club, Middle Pier, Howth Harbour, Howth, Dublin, D13 E6V3, Ireland

Cruising Group Breakfast
2025-04-12 10:00 - 15:00
Asgard Room

Malahide Muster May Bank Holiday Cook Your Heart Out Competition
2025-05-03 12:00 - 2025-05-04 21:00 | Malahide Yacht Club
Malahide Muster May Bank Holiday Weekend & Cook Your Heart Out Competition
This will be a Cruise In Company, BBQ and Cooking Competition in aid of the RNLI on the May Bank Holiday weekend. This two day event is hosted in the Malahide Yacht Club, St. James Terrace is open to all members and friends of the CAI, HYC & MYC.

Three members of HYC will participate on the Cook Your Heart Out Competition in MYC St. James Terrace on Sunday May 4th.

Saturday 3rd May cruise in company followed by a BBQ in Malahide Yacht Club
13:00hrs Cruise to the Lambay anchorage for a picnic 17:00hrs
Return to the Malahide Marina 18:00hrs
BBQ in the Malahide Yacht Club followed by usual craic, talk the talk & music

Sunday 4th May Cook Your Hearts Out Competition
Enjoy the day in Malahide or book a guided tour of Malahide Castle
16:30hrs Cook Your Hearts Out nine cooks prepare their main course for their four crew. Meet the cooks, discuss the recipes, taste their dishes and vote for your favourites.
18:30 Judging of the cooking competition & prize giving.

Booking links –

https://www.myc.ie/event/malahide-muster-2025
Book a berth with CAI and avail of discount book here Register Boat with CAI
Saturday BBQ Book Here

HYC Cruising Armada to Red Rock
2025-06-07 11:00 - 17:00 | Howth Yacht Club, Middle Pier, Howth Harbour, Howth, Dublin, D13 E6V3, Ireland
HYC Cruising will take an armada to Red Rock and back.
Depart HYC Marina at 11am.
Aideen Sargeant will organise logistics.

HYC Cruising Armada to Skerries
2025-06-14 10:00 - 17:00 | Howth Yacht Club, Middle Pier, Howth Harbour, Howth, Dublin, D13 E6V3, Ireland
HYC Cruising will take an Armada to Skerries and back.
Depart HYC Marina at 10am.
Aideen Sargeant will lead on logistics

HYC Cruising Armada to Lambay Island
2025-06-28 11:00 - 17:00
Depart HYC Marina at 11am.
