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#teamracing – Top marks to Gonzaga College for its win in the Leinster Schools Team Racing championships. Nine teams from across Leinster battled it out last weekend in Dun Laoghaire Harbour for the title of Leinster Schools Champions. The Royal St…
#insc – 1720 sportsboat action on Dublin Bay in this new short vid from Team INSC that took part in the Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) Rathfarnham Ford Spring Chicken Series 2014. Full results here.
#clipper – A London man was rescued from the Pacific Ocean in the early hours of this morning after falling overboard during the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race. Derry~Londonderry~Doire crew member, Andrew Taylor (46) from London went over the…
#49erfx – New Irish Olympic sailing combination are aiming high with the stated ambition of 'bringing home a medal' in the 49erFX class in Rio in three year's time. Andrea Brewster and Saskia Tidey are full time sailors campaigning to represent…
#annalisemurphy – Ireland's sailing superstar Annalise Murphy prepares for battle at the second round of the International Sailing Federation's World Cup in Mallorca this morning and forecasts show that the massive Spanish competition is to get off to a decidedly…
#historicboats – Boat-building organisations from France, Spain and Belgium and boating enthusiasts from across Ireland will attend an EU backed workshop conference as part of a three day visit to Cork Harbour next week. The host organisation Meitheal Mara, based at Crosses…
#coastguard – Minister for Transport, Tourism & Sport Leo Varadkar has opened the newly-built Coast Guard Station in Killybegs which provides the voluntary crew with top-class accommodation and training facilities. It's the third new Coast Guard building opened by Minister…
#opti – As Ireland prepares to welcome a record fleet of youngsters to the Optimist dinghy European Championships in Dun Laoghaire in four months time, Afloat.ie reader David Quinn questions the level of intensity of this winter's training and asks is…
#matchrace – This Saturday the 29th Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) will be hosting an Invitational Match Racing event in aid of the Nathan Kirwan Trust in the heart of the Cork city on the River Lee. Six teams will…
#opti – With just under four months left to the opening ceremony of the Optimist European Championships, the Royal Saint George Yacht Club in Dun Laoghaire is preparing itself for a record entry. To date 43 countries have entered teams totalling…
#MarineNotice - Marine Notice No 24 of 2014 advises that a hydrographic and geophysical survey operation will be carried out in Donegal Bay between 28 March and 3 April 2014 as part of the INFOMAR programme. The RV Celtic Voyager…
#corkharbour – Camden Fort Meagher, an historic fort in Cork Harbour will headquarter June's International Sailing event for women hosted by Royal Cork Yacht Club it was announced yesterday. An Irish team for the event has yet to be anounced…
#dbsc – DBSC regular Phil Smith sailing Just Jasmin has won the club's Spring Chicken series that concluded last Sunday. Full results for the six week event are downloadable below as MS word docs along with last Sunday's individual race scores. Albireo was…
#corkweek – With Volvo Cork Week taking place just two weeks before this summer's Dolphin Commodores' Cup, competing teams are eyeing up Volvo Cork Week as an ideal training event for the inter–country competition. Early entries for Volvo Cork Week…
#marineatlas – Simon Coveney, T.D., Minister for Agriculture Food and the Marine launched the Marine Institute's Atlas of Commercial Fisheries around Ireland in Dublin today (26th March '14). The Atlas will be disseminated at a meeting of fishing industry representatives,…
#tallshipsireland – Just over a week to go until the gathering of those involved in the Sail Training adventure that was the 25 metre ketch Polaris/Pride of Galway writes Fiacc OBrolchain. Trainees, crew, volunteers and skippers have been coming out of the…
Fireball Pre-Worlds, Pattaya, Thailand – Sun and 10 knot SW breeze mark Day 2!
25th March 2014 Fireball
#fireball – Today's (Day 2) participants in the Fireball Pre-Worlds being hosted by the Royal Varuna Yacht Club in Pattaya, Thailand had a glorious day on the water with sunshine and 10 knots of breeze writes Cormac Bradley. The tide made…
Campaign Launched to Save Historic Donaghadee 'Sir Samuel Kelly' Lifeboat
25th March 2014 RNLI Lifeboats
A major fund-raising campaign will be launched (April 2, 2014) to save a famous lifeboat which rescued survivors from the Princess Victoria in 1953 and the Fastnet yacht race disaster in 1979. It's the second lifeboat with Irish connections to…
#MarineNotice - The Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport (DTTAS) advises that semi-submersible drilling rig Ocean Guardian (Call Sign V7FF7) will commence well intervention work for Shell E&P Ireland Limited on the Corrib Gas Field off the coast of Co…
#IrishIOMclass – Three sailors of the Irish IOM (International One Metre, model boat class) fleet travelled to Paisley in Scotland, near Glasgow. After meeting up in Belfast ferry terminal Gilbert Louis / HYC, Brian O'Neill / EDYC and Neil Suitor…
