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Spare a thought for the Clipper Race participants who spent Christmas Day at sea and hope to make it to Newcastle, Australia for New Year’s Day. “Rewarding, but really, really tough” is how Connemara sailor Paddy Moran (34), on board…

The year in figures August was the busiest month in 2023. The 44 Coast Guard Units were mobilised on 1,278 separate occasions. Coast Guard Helicopters conducted 796 missions. Royal National Lifeboat Institution lifeboats were tasked on 850 occasion Community inshore…

Early morning in summer with the sunshine gradually strengthening on the Hobart in Tasmania waterfront, and the Derwent Estuary off it, should be a time for gently wakening into the new day. But Thursday, December 28th 2023 has had bouts…

Duncan Hine and his international crew (including Irish-born Adrienne Cahalane) aboard Tasmanian entry, Alive, have kept the Reichel/Pugh 66s chances of winning a second Sydney Hobart well and truly alive, having crossed the finish line at 3.19.04 hours in Hobart…

In what has been an epic race from start to finish, Christian Beck’s LawConnect has lost her bridesmaid tag of the last three years to claim line honours in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race…

With the warmth of the new Thursday morning beginning to make its presence felt in Tasmania, the chances are increasing of a favourable breeze to bring the Super-Maxi Andoo Comanche (John Winning) to the line honours victory in this often…

Off England’s southwest coast is where a ferry war between operators, one running and the other hoping to run passenger and freight services between Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly has been heating up in the run-up to Christmas. The…

A Member of the House Keys (MHK) has joined several other politicians in voicing concerns regarding Isle of Man Steam Packet officers that were served with notice of termination on Friday evening (22 Dec), describing it as 'abhorrent behaviour'. Seafarers’…

A photographer’s depiction of the passage of time on an Irish offshore island is captured in a television documentary due to be broadcast on TG4 on Thursday (Dec 28) Fifty years ago, photographer Chris Rodmell “captured the soul” of the…

The tough realities of Irish island life are depicted in a new memoir of the Connemara island of Inis Treabhair. The last years of an Irish-speaking community are recorded by Micheál Ó Conghaile in his book, An Island Christmas. The…

Max Klink's "Super TP52", the Botin 52 Caro with Gordon Maguire (ex-Howth) and Cian Guilfoyle (Dun Laoghaire) on the strength, and racing for New Zeland where she was built - even though her sail number says Cayman Islands, while her…

The J/99 Rum Rebellion (Shane Connelly and Tony Sutton), which retired from the Sydney Hobart Race overnight, has returned to the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia. More details on the boat’s retirement have become available. Skipper Shane Connelly has reported…

The race for line honours in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is poised to provide two thrilling finales in one as the leading boats continue their charge towards Tasmania. Up front in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s race…

Writing to Afloat.ie, reader Joan Twomey bemoans the lack of attention on the sorry status of salmon on the upper River Lee It is heartening to read about so much EU and Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) collaboration regarding Greenland salmon…

Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) has secured convictions against two men for an illegal netting incident in which three Atlantic salmon died. The case was heard at Ennis District Court on Friday 27 October. Tom Corry and Flan Considine, both from…

The Marine Survey Office (MSO) of the Department of Transport is seeking applications from interested parties who wish to act as Recognised Security Organisations - RSO (Ports) for the period from January 2024 to 31 December 2028. The authorisation will…

As Andoo Comanche and LawConnect continue their game of cat and mouse at the front end of the Rolex Sydney Hobart fleet, little more than four nautical miles separating the pair, two further retirements were reported overnight. The Michael Spies…

Harry Pritchard emerged as the winner of the Magner trophy for his outstanding performance in the Monkstown Bay Sailing Club St. Stephens Day mixed dinghy race held in Cork Harbour. Pritchard, who was racing his ILCA 7, outclassed his opponents…

We cast the net wide in assessing just who might be thought of as Irish in the hundred crews still contesting the 2023 Rolex Sydney-Hobart Race as it emerges from its first night at sea. So even though navigator/tactician Adrienne…

Cian McCarthy and Sam Hunt of Kinsale, racing the Sun Fast 3300 Cinnamon Girl-Eden Capital, were leading the 628-mile Rolex Sydney Hobart Race's two-handed division of 15 starters after nine hours of racing, and are the top-placed small boat overall,…