In Olympic sport top athletes usually seek to elevate their game to be ‘in the medal zone’. For Ireland’s top offshore solo sailboat racer Tom Dolan the goal is the same, seeking to be fighting in the top pack to give himself the best chance of winning when the scrap...
Ireland’s Tom Dolan and his young French co-skipper Paul Morvan this morning finished a gruelling 740 miles long offshore race for the Trophée Banque Populaire Grand Ouest in seventh place from a star-studded field containing some of the most successful French solo Figaro racers of the last 10 years. Having started...
Banque Populaire Grand-Ouest Trophy is a long, long offshore sprint for Ireland’s Tom Dolan At 735 nautical miles long, the Banque Populaire Grand Ouest Trophy race which starts Saturday 1300hrs local time, is one of the longest offshore courses of the 2024 season for Ireland’s Tom Dolan. For the double handed course...
Ireland’s Tom Dolan back among the front runners with sixth place overall at Solo Maître Coq, a repeat of last year’s result With a solid fifth place on a tough, demanding 390 miles solo offshore race which finished into Les Sables d’Olonne in France’s Vendée region this morning, Ireland’s Tom Dolan...
At the Solo Maître CoQ Figaro circuit event which started on Tuesday out of Les Sables d’Olonne in France’s Vendée region, a slightly frustrated Tom Dolan is sitting in 14th place heading into Thursday’s 390 mile offshore race component of the annual event. After enjoying good conditions on Tuesday for the...
After a brief recovery at home, returned from Guadeloupe and the crewed Class40 Niji 40 Transatlantic race on which he finished fourth as part of an international trio, Irish skipper Tom Dolan is back in action this week on his Figaro Beneteau 3 Smurfit Kappa-Kingspan. From Tuesday until Saturday he...
After finishing the new 3,430 miles Niji40 Class40 race between Belle-Ile-en-Mer, France and Marie-Galante Gaudeloupe in fourth place, Irish skipper Tom Dolan is hot footing it back from the French Antilles islands to Brittany and the helm of his Figaro Beneteau 3 Smurfit Kappa-Kingspan to be ready for next Tuesday’s...
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...
