Ireland’s offshore solo racer Tom Dolan takes advantage of a natural break in the Figaro circuit in France to expand his racing horizons and improve his skills as he competes in a new, crewed Class40 race – the Niji 40 – which follows a 3,430 nautical miles Transatlantic course from...
Only one week after the Solo Guy Cotten Trophy races which was the first of the four events that comprise the season-long 2024 French Elite Offshore Racing Championship, Irish offshore sailor Tom Dolan now is racing out of La Trinité-sur-Mer at the Laura Vergne Trophy, an eponymous event which is...
Tom Dolan overcame a torn spinnaker to finish in 11th place on the 390 miles offshore race of the Solo Guy Cotten-Concarneau, the Irish solo skipper’s first offshore race of the 2024 season. The spinnaker tear happened within the first couple of hours of the race. With a small initial cut...
Ireland’s leading solo sailor Tom Dolan goes into his first offshore race of the 2024 season this afternoon knowing the pressure will be on from before the start gun as the 370 miles, 48 hours long course of the Solo Guy Cotten-Concarneau looks set to mostly be a speed course...
Irish solo offshore sailor Tom Dolan will start his 2024 racing season on Monday at the 48th edition of the Solo Guy Cotten determined that a slight change of approach will bring him consistently better results.. Rather than spending big chunks of his winter and spring on the water, this pre-season...
Aboard his Figaro 3 Smurfit Kappa - Kingspan Tom Dolan will compete in the 5 races comprising the 2024 French Elite Offshore Racing Championship, with the highlight of the season being the legendary La Solitaire du Figaro Paprec, the pinnacle event of the championship and the season. For his seventh consecutive...
"Well, we had a great sporting season, one with its share of ups, and downs! The high point was undoubtedly winning into Kinsale on the first stage of La Solitaire du Figaro. This is only the fourth time that a non French competitor has won a stage of La Solitaire du...
Because of a rapidly worsening forecast, Irish sailor Tom Dolan has had to stop his solo Round Ireland sailing record attempt in Dingle, despite being more than 80 miles – or about 10 hours - ahead of the existing record pace after having sailed more than half the 688 miles...
Irish sailor Tom Dolan is back in Ireland with his Figaro Beneteau 3 Smurfit Kappa Kingspan and is set up ready for a good weather window to take on the single handed Round Ireland sailing record which eluded him in the early summer. Unlike in May when there was the requirement to have his...
The annual French solo, multi stage one design offshore race, La Solitaire du Figaro is an incredible sporting challenge and this year’s edition, the 54th La Solitaire du Figaro Paprec which finished into Piriac-sur-Mer this morning was no exception. Although there were no major gales it was a long, Doldrums...