Volvo D2D 2025: A First Offshore Test for Hijacker

Forty hulls, one gun and a stiff south-westerly: the 2025 Volvo Dun Laoghaire–to-Dingle (D2D) Race blew the cobwebs out of Dublin Bay at exactly 14:00 on Wednesday, 11 June. For most of the fleet the 270-mile dash down Ireland’s east and south coasts is a useful warm-up. For us—six amateurs on a freshly refitted Ker 32 called Hijacker—it was trial by saltwater, a dress-rehearsal for next month’s centenary Rolex Fastnet.