The Royal North of Ireland Yacht Club has published lots of helpful information for those of you planning your trip to Cultra, Belfast Lough, Northern Ireland for the Northern Area Championship (30 June to 3 July) and Edinburgh Cup (3-7 July). Check out Read more »

Royal North of Ireland Yacht Club is both delighted and honoured to be offered the opportunity to host the Northern Area Championship and Edinburgh Cup in July 2012. The Club has a long history with the Dragon Class and last hosted the Edinburgh Cup in 2000. Prior to that Read more »

It all went down to the wire for the 43-strong fleet from Japan, Australia, Russia, Ireland and the UK on the final day of the 2011 Dragon Edinburgh Cup, supported by Aberdeen Asset Management, at the South Caernarvonshire Yacht Club in Abersoch. Read more »

At last here is Stav's day 3 interview (sorry for the delay - the internet is a bit steam driven here) Read more »

After a fantastic final race here in Abersoch Martin Byrne has been declared the Dragon Open British Champion and winner of the Edinburgh Cup. Second place went to Mikhail Muratov with Klaus Diederichs third and Simon Brien fourth. Read more »

The penultimate day of the 2011 Dragon Edinburgh Cup supported by Aberdeen Asset Management, in Abersoch may have featured only one race, but what a race it was. For the first time this week the wind was well up into double figures and the 43 strong Dragon fleet was able to enjoy a long course with beats of 2 miles plus Read more »

We'll have a full report for you later but the hot off the press news is that after today's fifth race Mikhail Muratov and Klaus Diederichs are tied on 16 points for the lead at the 2011 Edinburgh Cup supported by Aberdeen Asset Management. Martin Byrne had another good day with a third place moving up into third overall. Overnight Read more »

Good morning from day three of the 2011 Dragon Edinburgh Cup supported by Aberdeen Asset Management. Its a little cloudy today in Abersoch but the good news is that we have a good wind already blowing from the south west with the Read more »

"About as difficult as it gets. I'm not sure when I've seen a trickier race course than that and the last race was particularly difficult." was how Graham Bailey described the second day of racing at the 2011 Dragon Edinburgh Cup supported by Aberdeen Asset Management in Abersoch. Read more »