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Queen Mary 2 World’s Largest Liner Heralds Cruise Boom for Dún Laoghaire Harbour
#LinerQueenMary2 -RMS Queen Mary 2 the world's largest ocean liner made her…
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Queen Mary 2 Departs the Clyde Bound for Dublin Bay Debut
#LinerQueenMary2- Queen Mary 2 is currently underway and bound for Dublin Bay,…
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New €1m Lifeboat Station Opens in Castletownbere, Cutting Launch Time in Half
Castletownbere RNLI has officially opened its new lifeboat station and facilities on…
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Queen Mary 2: Bon Voyage As Dun Laoghaire Bids Farewell to Success of Big Visitor
#QM2Farewell– Queen Mary 2 under the command of master Kevin Oprey, weighed…
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Strangford Pair Win Flying Fifteen Northerns at County Antrim Yacht Club
Three Flying fifteen crews finished last weekend's Northern Championships on the same…
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Tall Ships Arrive for 'Sail Home to your Roots' Gathering 2013 on Dublin Bay
Two Class B Tall Ships will arrive in Dublin Port today as…
#James Espey from Ballyholme Yacht Club currently leads the last leg of the ISAF World Cup at Hyères having won the first race against the best on the world including former Olympic champion Robert Scheidt from Brazil.
Espey has just started with a new coach in his bid to qualify for his second Olympics at Rio in 2016, he also sailed the Laser at London 201.
A 39th in Race 2...
#shipwreck – Silver recovered from the wreck of the SS Gairsoppa which was sunk by a German U-boat 300 miles southwest of Galway on February 17, 1941 is to be put on public display for the first time at an exhibition at Discovery Times Square in New York on May 24.
The SS Gairsoppa was a British steam merchant ship that saw service during the Second World War. The name Gairs...
Monday, 22 April 2013 13:01
Sailing Manager Appointed at Malahide Yacht Club
Malahide Yacht Club has announced the appointment of Brian McDowell as Sailing Development Manager, a newly created position which will be a critical element of an ambitious development strategy for the Club to make sailing more accessible to the public, better utilise its modern Dinghy Sailing Centre facilities at the Broadmeadows, provide more sail training courses and furthe...
Monday, 22 April 2013 12:57
Ireland Sending Four Teams, Two Umpires to Top British Team Racing Event
#wilsontrophy – Two Olympic silver medallists are set to take on West Kirby Sailing Club's home team plus other top teams from across the UK, USA and Ireland, as the world's largest team racing event, the British Open Team Racing Championship for the Wilson Trophy, is hosted by West Kirby Sailing Club over Bank Holiday weekend (3-5 May).
This year there will be four Irish te...
Monday, 22 April 2013 12:12
Novel Catamaran Design Could Be Big Saver For Offshore Operations
#NewDesign - A new catamaran designed for servicing offshore drilling and energy platforms could help work crews get to where they're needed safety in some of the roughest seas.
Wired's Autopia blog reports on the SHC Wavedancer, a proposed catamaran with a submersible hull that could literally cut through and dissipate potentially dangerous waves - keeping the vessel stable e...
Monday, 22 April 2013 10:13
Peter Chambers Wins Battle of the Rowing Brothers
# ROWING: Peter Chambers won the battle of the brothers in the British rowing trials at Caversham. He beat his elder brother, Richard, in the lightweight single sculls final. He led early in the race and kept the chasing crews at bay through the second half.
Richard was in that chasing pack as was last year’s champion Adam Freeman-Pask. At 1400 metres it looked as if ...
Monday, 22 April 2013 09:53
Offshore Sailors Start ISORA Season on Saturday
#isora – Irish offshore sailing chief Peter Ryan from Dun Laoghaire is calling for a strong turnout of cruisers for the first day race of the 2013 ISORA lynx metmAsts Offshore Racing Series series this Saturday (April 27th) (Notice of Race downloadable below).
The first race of a nine race series (that includes June's Dun Laoghaire to Dingle race) starts at 0955 from Du...
#Surfing - Iceland, of all places, may not be known as a surfing hot-spot - but Irish wave rider Eoin McCarthy Deering has made something of the freezing swell, as the video above demonstrates.
The clip, via IrishCentral, was captured using one of the now ubiquitous GoPro portable HD cameras that enable extreme sports enthusiasts to record footage right from the centre of the ...
Monday, 22 April 2013 09:03
South African Surfer Stranded In Shark-Ridden Seas
#Surfing - A South African surfer has survived a terrifying ordeal after being stranded alone in shark-infested waters in the Indian Ocean.
As Channel 4 News reports, 50-year-old Brett Archibald had been with friends on an overnight boat crossing from mainland Indonesia to the surfing grounds of the Mentawai Islands when he blacked out from seasickness and fell overboard in ro...
Sunday, 21 April 2013 21:39
Glenans Sailing School Launch 2013 Season in Dun Laoghaire
#glenans – Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport Leo Varadkar launched Glenans 2013 season this afternoon at the National Yacht Club in Dun Laoghaire.
As Europe's largest sailing school the French club has bases in Baltimore in West Cork and on Collanmore Island on Clew bay in County Mayo.
The Minister helped the school to launch its annual Irish sales brochure.
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Sunday, 21 April 2013 20:44
Minister Welcomes New State–of–the–Art Cork Harbour Coastguard Station
#coastguard – Minister for Transport, Tourism & Sport Leo Varadkar has welcomed the opening of a new state-of-the-art Irish Coast Guard facility at Crosshaven in Co. Cork.
The purpose-built facility was developed by the Department of Transport, Tourism & Sport and the OPW to provide a modern base for Crosshaven Volunteer Coast Guard Unit, as well as a Coast Guard Reg...
Sunday, 21 April 2013 20:02
University of Limerick Win Irish Place in Student Yachting World Championships
#sywoc – University of Limerick, with Rob O'Leary as helm, have continued their winning ways into keelboats, emerging as clear winners of the trials to select Ireland's national representatives for the Student Yachting Worlds 2013 to be staged in France in late October writes WM Nixon.
UL have been on a run of success this year, as their team racers – captained by Ross Mur...
Sunday, 21 April 2013 17:59
New Rules on Grading A Hit at Rowing Ireland AGM
# ROWING: Delegates at the Rowing Ireland agm in the Garda Boat Club in Dublin gave overwhelming approval to the proposal to revamp the grading system. The new system, which will be introduced next year, will allow competitors from different grades to compete in the same boat, with the grade of the boat being decided by the weighting given to each athlete. Former rowers can als...
Sunday, 21 April 2013 17:49
New Rowing Calendar Moves Irish Universities' Championships
# ROWING: The Irish Universities' Championships will be detached from the Irish Schools’ Championships and moved to a new date in June as part of the 2014 rowing calendar accepted by delegates at the Rowing Ireland agm in Dublin yesterday. The change has been prompted by Ireland Performance Director Morten Espersen, who also hopes to have the university athletes involved in a...
Sunday, 21 April 2013 12:14
Tributes Paid to Swedish Yachting Legend Magnus Olsson
#VOR - The sailing world has paid tribute to Volvo Ocean Race coach and round-the-world yachting legend Magnus Olsson, who has passed away from a stroke at the age of 64.
Olsson was a long-time veteran of the Volvo Ocean Race (VOR), beginning in 1985 when it was known as the Whitbread Round The World Race and last competing in the 2008-09 edition.
Most recently he was coachin...
Sunday, 21 April 2013 11:55
Busy Saturday for RNLI on Lough Derg
#RNLI - Lough Derg RNLI launched twice yesterday (21 April) on consecutive callouts to a vessel grounded at the Corrakeen Islands and a sinking cruiser at the northern end of the lake.
Around 3.45pm yesterday, Valentia Coast Guard requested the launch of the Lough Derg RNLI lifeboat to assist three people on board their 20ft cruiser after their engine failed and were pushed on...
Sunday, 21 April 2013 11:38
Ports & Shipping Review: Call for enhanced EU Maritime Security, Balbriggan Port in Deep-Water, Irish Manufacturing Increase, EU Rejects Ship-Recycling Levy and ISPS changes
#ShippingReview – Over the last fortnight, Jehan Ashmore has reported from the shipping scene, where Minister for Justice, Alan Shatter outlined one of Ireland's EU Presidency priorities, to address the potential to enhance Maritime Safety, Security and Surveillance in the EU.
Plans for the proposed €350m development of the deep-water port at Bremore, near Balbriggan, Co. ...
Sunday, 21 April 2013 10:46
Funding Sponsorship for Young Tall Ship Sailors
#TallShips -Funding will be made available for 20 young people from Drogheda to sail at reduced rates during the Tall Ship Sailing Voyages which is to involve six tall ships sailing from Liverpool to the Irish port.
As previously reported on Afloat.ie, the event is part of the Drogheda Fringe and Maritime Tall Ships Festival (4-6 May), when the tall ships sail from Merseyside ...
Saturday, 20 April 2013 21:22
Women's Eights Final Sparks Controversy at Trinity Regatta
# ROWING: UCD won 11 of the finals at Trinity regatta at Islandbridge in Dublin today, including the men’s senior eights, fours and single sculls – with Dave Neale in each of the winning crews. The big controversy of the day concerned the women’s senior eights, where a re-row was ordered after a clash early in the race. UCD decided not to compete – prompting anger from ...
#vintage boats – The season-long Golden Jubilee cruise of the Old Gaffers Association starts to roll this weekend, with vintage boats from the Thames Estuary setting out tomorrow to rendezvous in the Orwell estuary in Suffolk with character boats already on their way from Holland. And when the growing fleet reaches Dublin Bay for major events between May 31st and June 4th, th...
Saturday, 20 April 2013 00:00
Student Sailing Worlds Selection Trials Conclude
#sywoc – There are two distinct strands in Irish university sailing these days. The annual National Team Racing Opens in Fireflies – won five weeks ago on Tralee Bay from 26 college teams by University of Limerick skippered by Ross Murray – continues to be the backbone of the national students' programme. This is as it should be. Team racing is a natural fit in college li...
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