#CLASSIC BOAT – Minister for the Marine, Simon Coveney will give the keynote talk at Glandore Classic Boat Summer School on Saturday 14th July. The theme of the ninth Summer School 'Our Ocean Wealth' reflects the growing realisation that our maritime empire to the west will be one of the…

#MERMAIDS – As well as an inuaugural new race for the Mermaid fleet in Foynes on the West coast, the Mermaid class is also experiencing a high degree of activity on the East coast too with three new dinghies under construction in Rush, North Dublin in the 80th year of…

#CLASSIC BOATS – Two yet very different vessels with strong intertwined Irish maritime connections have been accepted onto the prestigious British National Historic Ship list, as vessels of historic significance, according to the Wicklow People. The larger of the two vessels De Wadden is a Dutch built three-masted schooner dating…

#WOODEN BOAT – She is just a humble wooden fishing boat with a rusty-red sail: step on board Obair-Na-Ghoal and there is no powerful engine, no cutting-edge technology and no opulent fittings. Yet this simple little boat from a tiny village in the north of Scotland is making waves throughout…