A full Irish breakfast cooked in the early morning by his partner seemed to do the trick for solo sailor Tom Dolan (Smurfit Kappa-Kingspan) as he made probably his most assured, confident start yet of his La Solitaire du Figaro career. The French based sailor was fourth to the first...
Irish solo sailor Tom Dolan improved on his 12th on Stage 1 when he crossed the finish line into Royan, France this morning in fifth place on the second stage of La Solitaire du Figaro. The skipper of Smurfit Kappa-Kingspan should move into the top five of the annual French solo...
Irish solo racer Tom Dolan remained in a positive, upbeat mood in the post race sunshine of Port La Foret, Brittany after finishing 14th on the first 559 miles stage of the 2022 La Solitaire du Figaro. Racing Smurfit Kappa-Kingspan, he sailed a very strong opening half of the race, lying...
Ireland’s solo racer Tom Dolan, who sails in the colours of Smurfit Kappa and Kingspan, will start his fifth La Solitaire du Figaro this Sunday. The 34-year-old who originates from County Meath but has lived in France for 12 years holds the record for the highest overall finishing place by...
Irish solo skipper Tom Dolan will spend this week dealing with some niggling technical problems and debriefing the factors which contributed to a disappointing 14th place in the Solo Guy Cotten solo race which finished in Saturday into his French home port of Concarneau. A cavitation problem with his port rudder...
With a ninth place earned this Sunday morning when, exhausted, they crossed the second leg finishing line back into Saint Gilles Croix de Vie on France’s Vendée coastline, Ireland’s Tom Dolan and English co-skipper Alan Roberts finish eighth overall in the Sardinha Cup, the two stage, doublehanded race to Figueira...
Irish-Anglo duo Tom Dolan and Alan Roberts on Smurfit Kappa-Kingspan made a solid start to the second stage of the 2022 Sardinha Cup, a 560 nautical miles return leg from Figueira da Foz in Portugal back across the Bay of Biscay to Saint Gilles Croix de Vie on France’s Vendée...
Under other circumstances Irish-Anglo sailing duo Tom Dolan and Alan Roberts might have been content finishing into Figuera da Foz Portugal yesterday morning at the end of the first stage of the Sardinha Cup in eighth place, but having led for most of the middle third of the 565 nautical...
The Irish skipper Tom Dolan teams up again with his English friend and counterpart Alan Roberts to compete on the Sardinha Cup, a two handed races which starts from Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie on the west coast of France and races 580 miles across the Bay of Biscay to Figuiera da Foz on...
Ireland’s solo skipper of Smurfit Kappa Kingspan finished in a very creditable seventh place overall today in the second event of the French Elite Solo Offshore Championship, the Allmer Le Havre Cup which was raced out of the Channel port of Le Havre for the fifth time. Dolan finished in 12th in today’s 27...