It’s that time of year again,  The Winner Team 2019 offer.   Winner Team Details: 3 places are offered to Ireland at present.  You must apply to have a chance of being selected The guideline for selection is the Best ranked Senior, Best ranked Junior and the Best ranked Girl (may be senior or Junior).

We are delighted to announce that The Irish Optimist National & Open Championship 2019 will take place in Howth Yacht Club, Co. Dublin. The Irish Nationals is always a great event with lots of fun both on and off the water.  So make sure you mark the date in your diary for 2019!   Date: 15th

Places are filling quick for the two mid winter events on offer with DinghyPerformance. Two spaces are left for Palma (5-9 Dec). Palma is a great event, with approximately 250-300 sailors from 10-15 countries. It is competitive and provides excellent racing.  Due to the low number of charter boats available, register your interest fast.  The

Optimist Sailors are at the start of their sailing journey and our aim at the Baltimore Spring Camp Week is to help young sailors build a confidence and a passion for sailing they carry with them for life.  This is the central ethos of Baltimore Spring Sailing week. Baltimore Spring Sailing week is an action-packed

The Baltimore Spring Training Week 2019 takes place from Sunday 17th February to Friday 22nd February 2019, in the beautiful West Cork Village of Baltimore. Registration for this top International Optimist Sailing Clinic is now open.  To avail of the early entry discount enter today! Entry Fee & Closing dates Entry fee is €275.10 per child  A €75 discount will

Baltimore Spring Training Week is one of the top International Sailing Clinics available to Optimist Sailors. It takes place in the picturesque West Cork Village of Baltimore over the February school mid-term break. Each year it kicks off the Optimist Sailing Season in Ireland and sees around 100 Optimist sailors participate in this fantastic week-long

Check out the amazing end of season savings, on Optimist Sails by North Sails. For full details click here  North Sail – End of Season Sale

Notice to all IODAI Members, The 2018 Annual General Meeting (AGM) for The Optimist Dinghy Sailing Association of Ireland Limited (IODAI) is taking place at 2pm on Sunday the 7th October, 2018 in the National Yacht Club, Dun Laoghaire. Please find attached the supporting papers for the AGM in preparation for the meeting: Notice of

The following sailors have been upgraded to Gold following the recent Munsters in TBSC.  Well done to all Sailors. Senior Fleet: Liam Duggan, Ciara Paul & Clodagh Malone Junior Fleet: William Walsh & Harry Moynan 

Here are the final rankings of 2018. Senior Fleet Junior Fleet The following are the conditions to qualify for Trials: Sailor must compete in the Nationals + (at least) 2 Regionals Scoring is the sum of Nationals place + 2 best Regionals placing (excluding non-Irish sailors) Ties are broken by applying ISAF RRS Appendix A Section

            A great weekend of racing was had by all at the IODAI Munster Championships last weekend in Tralee Bay Sailing Club – Fenit.  Over 100 sailors travelled from all over Ireland for what was the last regional event of 2018.   Six races were raced in both Junior and Senior

A five sailor team represented Ireland at the Optimist World Championships in Limissol in Cyprus.  They competed against over 260 sailors from 57 Nations.     The Team Ireland sailors were Harry Twomey, James Dwyer-Matthews, Justin Lucas, Michael Crosbie and Rian Geraghty-McDonnell.   Along with team coach Botch and Team Assistant Ruth McSweeney, they delivered Irelands