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The ICRA Annual Conference will take place on November 23rd between 10 am and 4pm at the Royal Irish Yacht Club.

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ICRA is please to announce another presentation to the programme for the Annual Conference:

Philip Bendon and his Match Racing Irish Team will present

How to Become European Champions

Followed by by the keynote presentation:

Matt Sheahan

Foiling with the America’s Cup

ICRA is pleased to announce that the Keynote presentation for the conference will be given by Matt Sheahan who has just returned from the America’s Cup. This presentation is titled “Foiling with the America’s Cup”, looking at America’s cup boats now and future possibilities. It will offer insights on topics such as When will you fit foils to your boat? (They are closer than you think!)

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Matts is Yachting World’s Racing & Technical Editor. He attended the Southampton Institute where he qualified as a yacht designer and, before joining Yachting World, worked for the spar maker Proctor. He has a wide experience of top level racing which puts him in a good position to run the racing coverage for the magazine. Over the last few years he has been knee deep into covering all aspects of the America’s Cup.[/box]

The agenda will also cover topics such us More Sailors – More Sailing and the 2014 Training Proposal, before introducing the Keynote Presentation.

We look forward to seeing all our friends at the conference and we encourage all of those that may have an interest to assist.