Lough Erne Yacht Club

Fleets > J/24 Fleet

Fleet Captain: Katrina Mc Girr

LEYC’s J/24 Fleet will sail on Tuesday, and occasional Thursday, evenings, and weekends, as listed below.

The sailing and social calendar of the J/24 Class at LEYC is detailed below; as are contact details for the Class at club, national and international level.
Updates to this information will be posted on www.leyc.net and will be emailed to those whom the club captain has email addresses. If you would like to be added to this list or to add your crew, please contact the captain by email (address below).




Tuesday J/24 Racing

Gathering for 7pm
First Signal 7.30 pm

Notice of Race click here

Sailing Instructions click here

• 36 races: most on Tuesdays; 6 series of 6 races, two back to back each evening, except Series 6. Some postponed to Thursday for Tuesday launch after Championship travel. First warning 7.05 pm. Details on J/24 notice board.

• Compliance with the Racing Rules of Sailing (RRS) Irish J/24 Class and International J/24 Class Rules 2005-08, including rule 2.5.8 re. transom sticker, and with amendments only for LEYC Club sailing to allow crew changes in a regatta or series and to make battery and navigation lights optional.
• A boat’s series score counts all race scores (RRS-A2). Number entered (A4.2) will equal the number of boats which start in at least one race of that Series. The first cup listed in each Series is for the winner: the second for another boat’s achievement as judged by the Fleet Captain.

The information below is for each series giving the dates the number of races and the cups awarded.

Series 1Results
Spring Cup Jigalo
EYC Cup Jeriatrix


Series 2 Results
Holland Cup Jigalo
LEYC Commodore Cup Jeriatrix


Series 3
Results
FB Maguire Jet (cup absent)
Mahon Cups Jigalo

4
25 (Thurs) and 29 June, 6 July
Six races Results
Innishdoney Cup Jigalo
Capt. Irvine Cup Jeriatrix

5
13, 20 and 27 July,
Six races Results
Harry Herbert (A)
Omaglass Cups

6
3, 12(Thurs), 17 August
Six races Results
Herbert (1919) Jet
Kirk Cups Jasper

7
24(1), 31 (1) July, 7(1)Sept
Results to date

J/24 Boats and Owners 2010
Jade Sean Mc Cosker
Jasper John Mulholland
Jeriatrix Michael Clarke
Jet Michael McCaldin
Jigalo Tim Rippey
Jorvik B Gallagher & R Ritchie
Jurassic Neville Cromie
Luder Too Robin Eagleson
Mejoolie Barry Humphreys & Ann Sheehy
Murder Picture Michael McCaldin
Skipjack John Kane
Sayonara Diarmuid O’Donovan

J/24 Contacts

LEYC J/24 Fleet Captain
Katrina Mc Girr
077 7198 7576


J/24 Association of Ireland
Robin Eagleson
078 1119 3269


UK J/24 Class
Stuart Jardine
01-590-644728


International J/24 Association
Eric Faust




Weekend Racing & Club Activities
Social Evening: Quiz Night: Sept Organised by the fleet as a club fund-raiser

Autumn Regatta : 9-10 October: J/24 windward-leeward courses, up to 6 race series over the two days. J/24 Squires Cup

Prize Giving and Christmas Party: 4 December: Foxrock (J/24 Woman) Spiers & Miss Irvine Cups and J/24 Big Cup

J/24 National & International Events

Up to ten boats have represented LEYC at big J/24 events. Championship dates for 2010 are below.
Championships in Ireland
19-20 June Lough Ree YC
7-8 August Lough Erne YC
11-12 Sept Howth YC

International Championships
4-11 June Europeans, Netherlands
13-20 August Worlds, Sweden

International J/24 Class (see rules at www.j24ireland.com)
• Replaces the rules section of the Issue 1 Fleet News.
• It is the responsibility of an owner to ensure that the yacht complies at all times with the current class rules and that a copy of the Measurement Certificate and the Inventory of Required and Optional Equipment (Rule 3.7.3) are kept aboard the yacht.
• No yacht shall race unless the owner(s) and helmsman(men) are full members of an NJCA or the IJCA.
• No yacht shall race without a current J/24 Class Association membership sticker placed on the outer face of the transom near the upper starboard
• Full set of Class Rules click on the link http://www.j24ireland.com/contents/en-us/d5.html


Websites
www.j24ireland.com (Ireland)
www.J24class.org (World)

• Jade
• Jasper
• Jeriatrix
• Jet
• Jigalo
• Jorvik
• Mejoolie
• Skipjack

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