Ireland’s Tom Dolan came back from deep in the fleet – in the low teens on the passage along to the South Coast of England - to finish a creditable ninth across the line this morning at the end of the 450 miles offshore race of the Le Havre Allmer...
Ireland’s Tom Dolan and his Beneteau Figaro 3 Smurfit Kappa-Kingspan are back in the English Channel ready to take on all of the many challenges offered by the Le Havre Allmer Cup which starts on Sunday with a 340 nautical miles offshore race. The event, which was last run in 2018, is the...
Tom Dolan and his English co-skipper were taking the many positives from the seventh place finish that they secured early this morning when the Trophée Banque Populaire Route Sur La Route Iles Ponant finished into Concarneau, Brittany after nearly four days of very intense, high pressure racing. Having led the 12-boat...
Irish solo sailor Tom Dolan pairs up with on-form top English racer Alan Roberts tomorrow (Sunday) when the duo seek to land an Anglo Saxon win in a new 800 nautical miles French double-handed race for the Trophée Banque Populaire Grand Ouest. The race starts Sunday at 1330hrs (local time) from...
A hard earned 12th place in the final coastal race (Sunday) was small consolation for Irish solo racer Tom Dolan. Added to his 13th from Saturday’s light wind windward-leeward circuit Dolan, skipper of Smurfit Kappa-Kingspan finishes the first major race of his 2022 season, the Solo Maître Coq in 19th...
A long, comprehensive spring season of training and preparation comes to an end Tuesday as Irish solo offshore sailor Tom Dolan takes on the first major solo race of the 2022 season. The Solo Maître Coq is the traditional curtain raiser, the opening event of the season long French Elite...
Ireland’s leading solo offshore racer Tom Dolan has almost finished his training phase prior to the start of the five events which comprise the 2022 French Elite Offshore Racing Championship, the season long solo and short-handed circuit which has La Solitaire du Figaro (Aug 15th to September 11th) as its...
Irish solo sailor Tom Dolan reports that his pre-season training is on track as he steps up work with the other members of the Lorient Grand Large programme which he works with in Brittany and pairing off into small groups for focused speed testing and fine tuning manoeuvres. Now that his...
Ireland’s leading solo offshore sailor Tom Dolan (Smurfit Kappa-Kingspan) finished the 52ndedition of La Solitaire du Figaro on a high note when he crossed the finish line of Stage 4 into Saint Nazaire in third place, the first La Solitaire stage podium of his career. After leading the 34 boat fleet...
Irish solo sailor Tom Dolan was placing his faith in a slightly different, more westerly strategy as he left Morlaix Bay in north Brittany this afternoon at the start of a mammoth 685 miles final stage of La Solitaire du Figaro. The skipper of Smurfit Kappa -Kingspan, who lies 19th overall,...