It was a flabbergasted Irish solo sailor Tom Dolan who emerged blinking into the Kinsale sunshine this morning after a post-race physiotherapy session to be told that he has been promoted to winner of Stage 1 of La Solitaire du Figaro Paprec following the decision of the International Jury to...
Just on cue, Irish solo sailor Tom Dolan delivered his career best stage finish today when, under the added pressure of being the ‘homecoming favourite’ he took second place on the 610 nautical miles La Solitaire du Figaro Paprec first leg from Caen into drizzly Kinsale this morning. The result on...
A short summer ‘staycation’ – enjoying time resting and relaxing around his French home in Concarneau, Brittany – has been the final part of Irish skipper Tom Dolan’s preparations for the 1850 nautical miles, three stage 2023 La Solitaire du Figaro Paprec solo offshore race which starts Sunday from Caen,...
Tom Dolan put two days of disappointing inshore races behind him and scored a useful tenth place on the event’s 395 miles offshore race which finished Friday afternoon. The Irish skipper missed ninth by only a few seconds after two days of hard racing between Ushant and Rochebonne on the...
After a series of mainly double-handed and crewed races so far this season, Irish sailor Tom Dolan returns to solo racing mode this week when he takes on the 47th edition of the Solo Guy Cotten – Concarneau against high calibre opposition. The event is seen as a final dress rehearsal...
Irish skipper Tom Dolan and his French co-skipper Kévin Bloch, sailing Dolan’s Smurfit Kappa-Kingspan, completed the nine day Sailing Tour of Brittany today in Quiberon, France in eighth place overall from a field of 26 entries. The event comprised three offshore stages and four coastal day races linking Saint Quay-Portrieux...
As it was back in April when he last raced offshore on Smurfit Kappa-Kingspan, Irish skipper Tom Dolan is eagerly looking forwards to the multiple challenges which the upcoming Tour de Bretagne à la Voile will bring. The four stage, double handed race starts on Saturday July 1st and goes round...
Time ran out on the solo Round Ireland record attempt of Irish sailor Tom Dolan this Sunday morning of the Dun Laoghaire finish line. Unexpectedly light headwinds for more than 24 hours whilst he was sailing round the north coast and into the North Channel between Scotland and Northern Ireland left...
Ireland’s leading solo sailor Tom Dolan expects to leave the Dun Laoghaire start line early morning Wednesday as he sets off to attempt to set a new solo record for sailing around Ireland. After waiting in Greystones for ten days since his boat Smurfit Kappa-Kingspan arrived from its home in France,...
While his boat Smurfit Kappa-Kingspan has now been berthed at Greystones, south of Dublin, since Wednesday, Irish solo skipper Tom Dolan will start his ‘stand by’ period when he is reunited with the Figaro Beneteau 3 this weekend. Dolan is prepared and ready to go at a moment’s notice, just...