Howth Yachting
Yachting in Howth, Dublin Region, Ireland
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Howth Yacht Club Ltd.
Howth Yacht Club Ltd. at Howth Harbour in Howth, Co. Dublin, Ireland dates all the way back to 1895 and today boasts a modern award winning clubhouse, offers activities and the largest sailing membership in Ireland and the United Kingdom. They offer training courses for members and visitors including summer sailing courses, and junior sailing programmes, and organise and run sailing events, plus have very active keelboat and dinghy racing fleets. Howth Yacht Club Ltd. is also famous for the world's oldest one-design racing keelboat class, with the original boats that came to the harbour in 1898 still being raced today along with thirteen other historical boats, all together known as the Howth Seventeen. There's also a 250 berth marina with winter berthing facilities, fuel, diese, crane and cradle, drying out pad, laundry, water, electricity, showers and changing rooms.