Welcome to Afloat.ie. Ireland's Sailing, Boating & Maritime Website

This is Afloat.ie, Ireland's Sailing, Boating and Maritime website offering the latest Irish marine news digest plus a quality Irish Boats for Sale listing.

This marine resource website gathers together news, photos and videos of interest to people involved in (or hoping to get  involved in) all types of sailing and boating in Ireland plus a host of marine related activities.

We're blogging on the very latest Irish Sailing news plus yacht and sailing clubs, dinghy and one design classes and regatta and championship reports. There's pages dedicated to each area of the sport covering everything from Team Racing to Tall Ship Sailing plus Youth Sailing, Cruiser Racing, Offshore Sailing, Cruising, Olympic Sailing and Afloat's very own Sailor of the Month Competition running since 1996.

We're also covering Irish water sports; Rowing, Angling, Power Boating, Inland Waterways, Canoeing, Kitesurfing, Surfing, Diving, Open Sea Swimming and Jet Skiing.

Afloat.ie also has a dedicated section on Irish Ports and Shipping news dealing with Cruise liner arrivals, Shipping, ferries and cargo. This section also has a comprehensive listing of the necklace of Irish marina locations around the coast, including the very latest at Greystones in County Wicklow.

Another area of the site deals with the marine environment and is separated into categories on marine science, ocean energy, marine wildlife, weather and coastal notes.

There's a dedicated section on marine safety bringing together the latest news in the work of Ireland's search and rescue (SAR) agencies, inlcuding the RNLI lifeboat, the Coastguard and reports from the Marine Casualty Invesitgation Board (MCIB) and timely warnings from Irish Water Safety.

There is a great maritime scene around this island and every year there are hosts of maritime events, festivals and regattas, we're out there reporting on all of these too!

We welcome your comments (in the comment box at the end of each story) and suggestions for this site as well as submissions of stories and photos for the site and magazine. Contact us here. Please follow us on twitter and facebook.

We provide a dedicated Irish boats for sale website and for a modest charge can advertise any type of boat for sale.

Thanks for your visit to our site and your interest in Irish boating affairs.