Lough Derg Yacht Club is a
boat club
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See also
*Rowing club
*Yacht club
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based in the lakeside village of
Dromineer
Dromineer The earliest form of the name dating from 1302 was Dromynwyr 4() is a small village and townland in County Tipperary, Ireland. It is situated on the shores of Lough Derg on the River Shannon. The village is located 10 km north ...
in
County Tipperary
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, Ireland. Founded in 1835,
it is one of the world's oldest
yacht club
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Description
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s. The club is based in a modern clubhouse on the east shore of
Lough Derg.
Lough Derg Yacht Club (LDYC) is one of a limited number of yacht clubs in
Ireland
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with a fleet of
Shannon-One-Design sailing dinghies. Other classes of boats sailed at LDYC include: Shannon one-design dinghy (founded 1922), National Squib one-design keelboat, International Laser Class, and International Mirror Class.
LDYC provides covered floating accommodation for fishing boats belonging to its members. The
RNLI Lough Derg Lifeboat Station, the first inland lifeboat station to open in Ireland, is also located in the yacht club premises.
History
Although Lough Derg Yacht Club was founded in 1835,
it may have been in existence in some form before that date.
The club's first regatta, led by Commodore Viscount Avonmore, was held in 1837 with events in Killaloe, Williamstown and Dromineer Bay and at Portumna. Through the early period of the club's life, they sailed large cutter rigged keelboats of displacement between 5 and 16 tons.
Commodores at the club in the mid-19th century included James Spaight Esq. of Derry (commodore in 1846), Bassett Holmes Esq. (1848 and 1859), Viscount Avonmore of Belle Isle (1849), and Hon. G.F.W. Yelverton (1857 to 1858). Up until 1883 the club organised events under its own rules- thereafter it operated under Yacht Racing Association (YRA) rules.
[Anon, A short history of Lough Derg Yacht Club, from: 1836-1905 ]
The first mention of centreboard boats racing at the club is 1893 when a race was held for mermaids.
The first one-design boat adopted by the club was the Dabchick class of centre-boarder designed by Linton Hope c. 1895. These boats were about 20 feet L.O.A. with a beam of 6 feet. They carried 200 sq.ft. sail area in a Bermudian rig with spinnaker. The Dabchick was followed by the Shannon one-design class designed by Francis Morgan-Giles which began racing in 1922.
It is not known when the club merged with the Lough Derg Boat Club and thereby acquired a clubhouse at Dromineer, but it was about 1901.
The
Mirror
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world championships were hosted at Dromineer during summer 2013.
Footnotes
References
External links
*{{official website, url=http://www.ldyc.ie
Yacht clubs in Ireland
River Shannon
Sports clubs in County Tipperary
Sports venues in County Tipperary