The Club has a maximum of 550 members.  Most of them live in Ireland and Northern Ireland although there are members living in many parts of the world.  They are joined together by their mutual love of the sea and sail boat cruising.  The Club has no premises but regular functions are arranged so that members can meet, and of course many rallies are held on the water both around Ireland and abroad.

Most of of this website’s contents are solely for the use of the members of the club.  However from this page you can discover more about the club, learn about the Club’s two highly regarded Sailing Directions for the coasts of Ireland, and read some of the logs of the voyages of some of the members.  There is also a brief section on how to join the club.

Cruising under sail along the coasts of Ireland has a long and colourful history, but it was not until 1929 that the Irish Cruising Club was brought into being to act as a co-ordinating body for seagoing amateur sailors in all parts of a country which had only recently been partitioned.

Cruising Ireland covering the whole coast of Ireland is in preparation and will be published during the summer of 2012.  Written by Mike Balmforth and Norman Kean, who is editor of the ICC's Sailing Directions, it will provide all the information you will need to make the most of cruising Ireland's spectacular and beautiful coast, what to look out for, what to do ashore, lots of history, and anecdotes about the nautical past.

Cruising Ireland will have over 200 pages and 300 photographs and will be available from chandlers everywhere.

Watch the yachting press and this website for more information.

Covers from

Tuskar Rock westwards to Bloody Foreland,

by way of the Fastnet Rock, Cape Clear, Valentia, Shannon and Galway.



UPDATES - The latest updates for this edition were posted  - in March 2012

Covers from

Tuskar Rock northwards to Bloody Foreland

taking in Dublin, the Loughs of Carlingford, Strangford, Belfast and Foyle,
and includes information of adjacent areas and passage notes for yachts approaching or leaving from the south or northeast

UPDATES - The latest updates for this edition were posted - in March 2012

At the end of every year many members submit logs of their voyages for publication in the Club's Annual.  The voyages cover widely different areas in home and foreign waters - some are short cruises around the coasts of Ireland, whilst others are long-planned adventures to distant places rarely visited by most people.  All the cruises are treated with equal respect.

Each year the logs are judged to compete for the many prizes that have been presented over the years.  The Club's premier prize for club members is the Faulkner Cup which was presented in 1931

The Faulkner Perpetual Challenge Cup shall be awarded each year for the log of the best cruise on a sailing yacht owned by a member of the Club, undertaken during the Season by any member, provided that he shall be in command of the yacht.  The judge will take into consideration  the distance covered,  the crew, the  time occupied, the  size of vessel, the amount of  use of auxiliary power, seamanship displayed and the  difficulties encountered and overcome.  A description of the yacht and photograph should included with each entry.

Assembled below are the winning logs from the last few years and we hope that you will enjoy reading them and appreciate the span of the members' activities with their yachts.

 Membership applications are considered annually, subject to a limitation on numbers of members.

Applicants should be able to demonstrate substantial cruising experience, seamanship, sailing skills and competence and an interest in and commitment to the ethos and activities of the Club. They should know members who would be prepared to propose and second their application.

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