The Club has 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.

Covers from Tuskar Rock westwards to Bloody Foreland, 

by way of the Fastnet Rock, Cape Clear, Valentia, Shannon and Galway.
The current corrections to this edition are shown below.

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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
The curent corrections to this edition are shown beow

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

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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