About the Centre

The club was formed on the evening of Friday 24th April 1964 at a meeting in Broder’s Hotel,
Now the Newbury Hotel, Mullingar in response to a notice placed in the “Westmeath Examiner”, by Keith Pinder, calling for a meeting of people interested in sailing. At this inaugural meeting a committee was formed whose first task was to find a site from which to sail. This, first, committee consisted of: Commodore, Dr. G. Jackson. Hon. Secretary, Keith Pinder. Hon. Treasurer, Ivor Fogg. Committee, Dermot Bannon, David Gibson-Brabazon, J. O’Donnell, C. Corcoran, Mrs Farrell and Mrs. Jackson. Due to the sudden death of Dr. Jackson later that year, Dermot Bannon was elected as Commodore.

For the first few years, we sailed from a field, on the shore of Lough Owel on, Joe Dolan’s land at Portloman. The GP 14 was the class, recommended by Greg Petrie, we adopted; a decision never regretted. Four members ordered boats in kit form and built, (some of these boats are still sailing well), having no previous sailing experience, members taught themselves to sail over the following few years. Organised club racing that followed helped to improve the standard of sailing considerably.

In the time sailed from Dolan’s we had our first regatta in 1965, actually sailed from Dermot Bannon’s land further up the shore at Portloman. With more space to erect the necessary marquees, etc and for visitor access, we hosted a number of meetings from Lough Ennell. As well as for GP 14s, classes catered for included, “Shannon-One-Designs”, “Enterprises” and “Fireflies”.

Courses

Sail training programme 2010
We are again running our annual introduction to dinghy sailing for:

Adults:
The adult sailing course will take place from Tuesday June 8th to Friday June 18th.

Tue 08 Jun, Wed 09 Jun, Fri 11 Jun

Mon 14 Jun, Wed 16 Jun, Fri 18 Jun

Contact: Sean Duffy @ (086) 8225384 

Other Activities

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Accomodation

locally

Shop

Directions

4 km N.W of Mullingar on the South East shore of Lough Owel.

53.5572 N  7.3662 W    ( 53.5572  -7.3662 )     PON code LJJ 46SC 

(Sign posts will be erected for events and regattas.)

From Longfort to Mullingar
3.4km (2.1 miles) from The Covert Bar in Balynafid, turn right on to N-04 / 0794.

From the N4 / N-04 –0794 junction drive 2.0km (1.3 miles) and turn right just after the railway crossing.

From Dublin to Longfort

Take the 1st turn left after the end of the dual carriage way, on the Mullingar by-pass.

From the N4 / N-04 –0794 junction drive 2.0km (1.3 miles) and turn right just after the railway crossing.

Contact Details

Mullingar Sailing Club
C/o Sean Duffy
(Hon. Secretary)
Kitty's Hill, Tullanisky, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath.

Phone:   (086) 8225384

http://www.msail.net/