80th Events

 Saturday 25th April from 6pm

On the Water
IDRA dinghies will be available for young SDC members to get afloat and, weather permitting, experience trapeze sailing and flying the spinnaker. Current IDRA sailors will be on hand to chat about crewing opportunities, boats available, and upcoming events.

Onshore
A social gathering for current and former IDRA sailors. Former sailors are encouraged to bring photos and memorabilia for photographing, scanning, and recording. A slideshow will run throughout the evening featuring IDRAs in action at SDC from the 1940s to the present day.

Running over the 26th and 27th of September this event will be both on and off the water with displays of boats, memorabilia from over the years and food. 

Celebrate an evening with friends over dinner in the Royal St George Yacht Club. Booking details will be circulated at a later date but for now, mark the date in your diary.

To launch our 80th anniversary celebrations, we will begin with an afternoon rooted in history, conversation, and good company.

The event will start with a visit to the National Maritime Museum of Ireland, where we’ll take time to reflect on the wider maritime context in which the IDRA 14 was born and developed. This will be followed by drinks and snacks in the Dún Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club (DMYC), an opportunity to catch up with old friends, share stories, and officially kick off the anniversary year.

This opening event is designed to be relaxed, social, and welcoming to sailors past and present, supporters of the class, and anyone with an interest in the IDRA’s remarkable history.

The event will be held on the 21st of March '26. Start time, meet at Dun Laoghaire Dart station at 13.30h or Museum at 14.00h. Addmission €6

This is the first event of the year and we are looking at using this time to start building the class archives of memorabilia for a very special project which we hope to be in a position to reveal very soon! We do need your help - if you have any old archive photographs, booklets, Clinker magazines, stories etc or similar can you start to think about where they are and let us know if we can collate them. We would love to be able to digitally record these in a central location and have them to share for years to come.

We hope you are able to join us and many thanks also to John Fitz for organising the day.