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The Volunteer lifeboat crew of the Aran Islands RNLI was requested to launch their All-weather Severn Lifeboat at 1.58am on Wednesday June 14 to attend to a woman with an injured ankle in need of further medical attention on Inis…

Father and son Ronan and Jacques Murphy showed that consistency pays with a string of second places, leaving them with the lowest points for the second night of Melges 15 racing on Dublin Bay. Six short windward-leeward races were sailed…

The clock is on the final countdown to the start of racing at Superyacht Cup Palma 2023 with another diverse and eye-catching selection of some of the world's finest superyachts gathering in the Mallorcan home of Mediterranean sailing. "It's great…

The number of cruise ships expected to dock in Belfast Harbour this season represents a 20% increase on the previous record set in 2019. In 2019, Cruise Belfast opened the first dedicated cruise terminal on the island of Ireland, and…

Captain Jacek Berenek of the container ship, ‘Independent Horizon,’ on its regular monthly call to the Port of Cork’s Deepwater Berth at Ringaskiddy, explained to the pupils of Barryroe National School from West Cork where he would launch their mini-boat…

Hamilton Shipping is currently recruiting for a Port Agency Assistant based in its busy Dublin Port office. Established in 1919 with offices in Belfast, Dublin, Cork, Shannon, Galway and Foyle Port, Hamilton Shipping is one of the most experienced and…

On the eve of its 100-boat Sovereign's Cup Regatta, Kinsale Yacht Club saluted their Volvo Dun Laoghaire Dingle Racers, particularly the two-handed campaign of Cian McCarthy and Sam Hunt, who finished second overall.  As Afloat readers know, the stunning performance of…

Dublin Bay Sailing Club Race Officer Tadgh Donnelly set a three-round windward/leeward course for the first of two DBSC Water Wag races on Wednesday evening, June 14th. The conditions in Dun Laoghaire Harbour were warm and sunny in a light ESE 3-5kt breeze.…

The Department of Transport has been advised by the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences at University College Cork that on on Tuesday 12 June it deployed 12 benthic sensors between the Seven Heads and the Old Head of…

Meanwhile, sailors in both fleets in The Ocean Race 2022-23 are preparing for a challenging Leg 7 towards the Grand Finale in Genoa, Italy. For the IMOCA fleet that has raced around the world, this ultimate leg of the race…

The local heroes on the Dutch-flagged Team JAJO made a statement of intent right from the start of the VO65 In-Port Race in The Hague on Wednesday afternoon (14 June) by crossing ahead of the entire fleet on port tack…

Brittany Ferries is to increase sailings on the English Channel when the fast-craft Condor Liberation returns to operating at weekends throughout the summer on the Portsmouth-Cherbourg and Cherbourg-Poole routes. The fastcraft's sailing schedule sees Condor Liberation depart Portsmouth at 07:00…

Shipbuilder Harland & Wolff Group is to lead a consortium of companies from overseas to develop and build new zero emission tugs suitable for coastal towage duties. The group based in Queen’s Island, Belfast has entered into heads of terms…

 Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council has launched a digital event brochure for its inaugural Coastival Festival that coincides with Ireland's largest sailing regatta, the VDLR, from July 6th. The flipbook contains the full programme for the eight-day event and is…

The general secratary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT), Mick Lynch has hit out at the “chaotic way” ferry services in Scotland are being run as he called for a “people’s CalMac” to be created.…

Relive the opening moments of last week's epic 43-boat Volvo Dun Laoghaire Dingle Race from the air in this just-released drone footage. Robbie Reynolds's drone footage shows the start of the race on Dublin Bay and the fleet heading south on…

It was a busy year for Fenit Harbour in Co. Kerry as the south-west port handled in 2022 more than a dozen vessels and roughly 24,000 tonnes of cargo. The vast majority of the cargo is from Liebherr cranes manufactured…

Class Zero in Dun Laoghaire will get another boost with the imminent arrival of John Treanor’s new J/112e. The brand new 36 ft yacht is currently being commissioned at Key Yachting’s base in Hamble and will have her first Irish…

Minister of State for Heritage Malcolm Noonan has visited the former lifeboat named Dunleary, which is the focus of a refit project in its home harbour. The Watson-class lifeboat was stationed at what was formerly Kingstown, Co Dublin, from December…

The Dunmore East RNLI lifeboat was called out on Tuesday (13 June) to assist a vessel in distress approximately four miles southeast of Hook Head. The vessel, with two people aboard, had caught fire and called the Irish Coast Guard…