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Dear Country Leaders in Sailing: You all are responsible for the choice to have the Olympics sail in Rio de Janeiro. Last week you held the Aquece Test Event. How did it turn out? Last year you had competitors fall…
Ballycotton RNLI was launched at 7.12pm yesterday evening (Sunday 30 August) to aid a dolphin that was stranded due to extreme high tides in a bogland near Ballycotton. Both the all-weather and the inshore lifeboats with their volunteer crews were…
The AES sponsored Taste Of Greystones regatta will be run again on Sunday Oct 4th with a slightly later start of 12.30 to allow boats sail over to the Wicklow coast. As reported earlier, regatta organiser Daragh Caferky told Afloat.ie that the…
'Elmo' Trophy Commemorates Founder of the Irish Team Racing Association
31st August 2015 Team Racing
#teamracing – There's just a few days remain until the brand new Elmo Trophy – a team racing event aimed at Junior sailors to be held in the Royal Saint George YC this weekend (September 5th and 6th). This is the inaugural event and will see…
#Rowing: Ireland’s Mark O’Donovan and Shane O’Driscoll finished fourth in their heat of the men’s lightweight pair at the World Rowing Championships in Aiguebelette in France and must negotiate a repechage if they are to qualify for the semi-finals. Italy…
The International 12 Foot championships took place in Dun Laoghaire on 30th August under the burgee of the Royal St. George Yacht Club. It is a number of years since a Class Championship was held in Ireland, but since the class…
#Canoeing: Ireland Under-23 competitor Liam Jegou finished sixth at the canoe slalom European Championships today in Krakow, Poland. Jegou went off second last in the running order of the C1 (Canadian canoe) final thanks to an excellent performance in the…
#Rowing: Sanita Puspure took second in her heat of the women’s single sculls at the World Rowing Championships at Aiguebelette in France and qualified comfortably for the quarter-finals. There were three places available and Mirka Knapkova of the Czech Republic…
#isora – After yesterday's two ISORA off races from Pwllheli and Dun Laoghaire into Greystones in Co Wicklow a big showdown is in prospect for the final race of the ISORA season in two weeks time between the National Yacht Club's Ruth…
#greystonesharbour – The Wicklow coast was forecast for no wind today and unfortunately for the 'Taste of Greystones' Regatta and an entry of some 120 boats it proved correct. Race officer Jack Roy took the big fleet out to sea…
#fireball – Afloat.ie has had an email from "a concerned reader" who fears that the supposedly very-economically-minded International Fireball Class have lost the run of themselves entirely this past week at their Worlds across in Abersoch. Our anonymous viewer was astonished to…
Derry–Londonderry–Doire Sets Sail In Tenth Clipper Round The World Yacht Race
31st August 2015 Clipper Race
#clipperroundtheworldrace – Hundreds of amateur sailors from around the world passed under Tower Bridge yesterday at the start of a 40,000 nautical mile global race, between six continents, which will take almost a year to complete in the longest and…
#greystonesregatta – Howth Yacht Club's recently crowned Half Ton Cup champion Checkmate XV marked her return to Irish waters today with a stunning performance on the Wicklow coast at the Cruisers 2 & 3 championship, a forerunner to tomorrow's Taste…
#dbsc – Dublin Bay Sailing Club incorporating Royal Alfred Yacht Club Results for 29 AUGUST 2015 BENETEAU 31.7 Echo- 1. Crazy Horse (F Heath & I Schuster), 2. Prospect(Chris Johnston), 3. Attitude (T Milner J Sugars M Branigan) BENETEAU 31.7…
#Canoeing: Liam Jegou qualified for the finals at the European Under-23 Championships in Krakow in Poland this morning. Jegou, in his C1 (Canadian canoe) finished second of the 10 qualifiers in the semi-final, just .33 of a second behind Kilian…
#fireballworlds – The 107 boat Fireball World championships concluded in Pwllheli, Wales yesterday with the final two races taking place in winds of c22 knots with big seas and impressive waves adding spice to the finale. After 10 races the world champions…
Dun Laoghaire's Green & Apthorp Score Fifth at Flying Fifteen Worlds
28th August 2015 Flying Fifteen
#flyingfifteen – Alan Green of Dun Laoghaire's National Yacht Club, crewing with former world champion Charles Apthorp, finished fifth overall at the Flying Fifteen World Championship at Crozon-Morgat in France over the past week. The pair, entered under the burgee…
#fireball – With eight races now completed in Pwllheli, the situation at the top of the scoreboard takes on a new twist.........again writes Cormac Bradley.Christian Birrell & Sam Brearey (15107) lead with 16pts (1, 2, 12, 3, 2, 3, 3,…
#isora – There are two offshore ISORA races scheduled for this weekend: both to Greystones in County Wicklow to join the Greystones Regatta on Sunday. Race 12 takes the Irish ISORA fleet form Dun Laoghaire to Greystones. The race starts…
#dbsc – BENETEAU 31.7 Echo- 1. Crazy Horse (F Heath & I Schuster), 2. Kernach (Eoin O'Driscoll), 3. Legally Blonde (C.Drohan/P.Egan) BENETEAU 31.7 - 1. Crazy Horse (F Heath & I Schuster) CRUISERS 0 Echo - 1. Wow (George Sisk),…