Welcome to Donaghadee Sailing Club’s fun filled Topper Sprints event, back for 2026!

It’s been a few years since we’ve been able to run this event for the topper class, but we’re back!  So come along to Donaghadee, race in the challenge event, and get to experience some of our weird, wonderful and infamous tidal streams!

The emphasis  of the Topper sprint’s challenge @ DSC is on a fun learning experience, it’s rather different to that of a normal Traveller race day or weekend. It’s all about getting practise at starts, mark rounding, finishes, making new friends & having fun, so whether your a seasoned racer or just starting out on your topper journey this event is for you!

It’s a quickfire series of back to back races, with a start signal and flag approximately every 3 minutes for a new race for a pair of the flights. The individual races are planned to take between 10-15min to complete before you line up for the next race again.

The plan is for every participant have around 10 short races over the day with boats racing in flights (mini fleets) of 6 topper sailors, all identified by a coloured ribbon on the mast head. This will mean red flight vs green flight, blue vs brown etc. On Saturday afternoon the results will be compiled and no one will have any idea how they have faired, the winners of each flight competing in the finals, should be a good days fun!

It is a great opportunity to try something new.

More details to follow