CAI Events

Dinner costs €30 per person and you must buy tickets in advance. The event takes place on Saturday 19 November: muster from 16:00, speeches from 17:00, dinner at 18:30 and we can stay for the rest of the evening.

The Atlantic Youth Trust hopes that Grace O’Malley will become Ireland’s flagship sail training vessel. Her skipper, Captain Gerry Burns, will tell us about the boat and her passage to Ireland.

Conor OBrien [sic] circumnavigated the earth between 1923 and 1925 in Saoirse, a sailing boat built in Baltimore to his own design. He was the first to sail around the world from West to East in a small private craft south of the three great capes. The yacht has been rebuilt

On Wednesday 2 November Yvonne Cronin of DP Energy told us about offshore wind energy. On Wednesday 23 November Vincent Murphy will talk about Conor OBrien and Saoirse.

Every winter we get together for a social event to celebrate the season’s activities and meet other members. This year the National Yacht Club is our host for a three-course meal, with guest speaker Ronan Boyle.