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#isora – No sooner is last night's DBSC racing over than some round–the–cans regulars are venturing outside the Bay this evening on a two–race ISORA weekend, with the Isle of Man as the focus. As David O'Brien reports in this…
#dbsc – Dublin Bay Sailing Club Results for 21 MAY 2015 BENETEAU 31.7 Echo- 1. Prospect (Chris Johnston), 2. Attitude (TMilner J Sugars M Branigan), 3. Thirty Something(Kavanagh\Gaffney\Jones) BENETEAU 31.7 - 1. Prospect (Chris Johnston), 2. Levana (Jean Mitton),3. After You…
#icra –The Irish Cruiser Racer Association (ICRA) has published details of provisional handicap divisons for its National Championships and Sovereign's Cup 2015 off Kinsale next month. The sensible bands is a sensible arrangement of similar sized (if not speed) boats…
#1720 – The popular West Cork sailing Village of Baltimore will next month play host to the 1720 National Championships which will be sailed in the picturesque setting of Roaring water Bay. The event is sponsored by Danske Bank. The…
Cork Match Racer Philip Bendon to Contest World Match Racing Tour on The Hamble
20th May 2015 Match Racing
#worldmatchracing – Cork Match Racer Philip Bendon and his team will take on the rising stars of this sailing discipline when the International Sailing Federation's World Match Racing Tour comes to the Hamble in the UK on June 14. Bendon shot…
Great Lighthouses of Ireland Tourism Initiative Launched in Dun Laoghaire
20th May 2015 Dun Laoghaire Harbour News
#lighthouses – A "brand new experience to take your breath away", that's the promise from Great Lighthouses of Ireland, a new EU INTERREG IVA funded tourism initiative being launched by the Commissioners of Irish Lights. Featuring twelve lighthouses in stunning…
#rorc – The 2014 RORC Season's Points Champion, Vincent Willemart and Eric Van Campenhout's Belgian MC34, Azawakh, was the overall winner of the 2015 North Sea Race, scoring the best corrected time under IRC, for the 182-mile race from Harwich…
#topper – The two main prizes in last weekend's Topper Traveller went to Geoff Power from Waterford and Erin McIlwaine from Newcastle. However there were good performances by local sailors with Charlie O'Neill taking 8th in the full rig fleet…
Dun Laoghaire Urban Beach & 'Badeschiff' To Open Summer 2016
19th May 2015 Dun Laoghaire Harbour News
#urbanbeach – Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company hopes to be in a position to open a floating swimming pool and urban beach at the historic East Pier of the Harbour for the 2016 summer season. Permission was granted in late-2014 by Dún…
Dublin's Floating Work Space is Launched in Grand Canal 'Silicon' Dock
19th May 2015 Inland Waterways
#workspace – As Afloat.ie reported last week, "DoSpace.ie" Ireland's newest and most unique CoWorking space launched today in Grand Canal Dock, part of Dublin's Silicon Docks area on Ireland's Inland Waterways. Occupying an 800 square foot, state of the…
#clipperrace – The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race has helped one of its Host Ports and Team Sponsors to scoop a prestigious travel industry award for an outstanding contribution to tourism by creating a highly successful week-long festival which…
Dun Laoghaire Harbour Response to 139 Submissions On Cruise Ship Berth
18th May 2015 Dun Laoghaire Harbour News
#dharbour – RESPONSE TO PUBLIC COMMENTARY ARISING FROM STAKEHOLDER/PUBLIC CONSULTATION EXERCISE HELD IN MARCH/APRIL 2015 CRUISE BERTH PROJECT AT DUN LAOGHAIRE HARBOUR For DUN LAOGHAIRE HARBOUR COMPANY ON BEHALF OF THE DUN LAOGHAIRE CRUISE STAKEHOLDER GROUP The Dun Laoghaire Cruise Stakeholder Group has responded to concerns raised…
Four Wins Gives Apthorp & Green Flying Fifteen East Coast Title At Whitehead
18th May 2015 Flying Fifteen
#flyingfifteen – Frequent visitor to Ireland, UK Flying fifteen champion Charles Apthorp, sailing with Alan Green, produced four wins at the East Coast Championships to be unstoppable at a windy County Antrim Yacht Club at Whitehead yesterday. The National Yacht Club's…
#fireball – Fireball dinghy champions Barry MacCartin and Conor Kinsella won the Fireball Open Event at Skerries Sailing Club in a lively two day event. Their narrow victory was won on countback against Noel Butler & Stephen Oram after six races in…
#lambay – Howth Yacht Club is forecasting a bumper turnout for its Lambay Race. With less than three weeks to go before Howth Yacht Club's annual regatta, the Lambay Races are already attracting strong entries and event chairman James Markey…
#sb20 – Jerry Dowling's Bad Kilcullen from the Royal Irish Yacht Club emerged the winner of a breezy 17–boat Leinster Championships off Dun Laoghaire at the weekend by a two point margin. Second was Cork based Corona Extra with Howth's…
#royalcork - It's only May and already Royal Cork Yacht Club claimed a second UK keelboat title yesterday when Ian Nagle and his J109 crew on Jelly Baby won the Vice Admirals Cup in Cowes. The Crosshaven campaign finished on 12 points with…
#optimist – Optimist dinghy ace Micheal O'Suilleabhain of Kinsale Yacht Club took a well earned win on home waters yesterday with a ten–point margin in the senior fleet after six races sailed at the Munster championships. The 13–year–old beat the…
#rnli – Lough Derg RNLI Lifeboat launched to assist two people on board a 30ft–cruiser, aground on the west side of the Corakeen Islands, near Dromineer Bay last night. At 5.51pm on Sunday evening, May 17, Valentia Coast Guard requested…
#dbsc – BENETEAU 31.7 ECHO - 1. Attitude (T Milner J Sugars M Branigan), 2. Extreme Reality (P.McSwiney/E.O'Rafferty), 3. Levante (M.Leahy/J.Power) BENETEAU 31.7 - 1. Bluefin Two (M & B Bryson), 2. Levante(M.Leahy/J.Power), 3. Kernach (Eoin O'Driscoll) CRUISERS 0 ECHO - 1.…