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On the Forum: Fireballs are the answer to a lost youth?
27th July 2009 News From the Afloat.ie Archive
Tiller man is trying to link lost youths with Fireballs . He also says there's a crash coming to sailing, thanks to budget cuts. Why has no one answered Paulie , a beginner looking for advice? And does anyone ageree…
Restrictions to navigation around the 13th and 14th Lock on the Grand Canal (marine notice no. 75) have now been withdrawn.
This August Bank Holiday weekend, Irish Water Safety (IWS) want us all to bear in mind that, though a poor weather forecast is likely to raise water levels flowing in to our rivers, harbours and bays, thousands of people will…
Rogerson 'Mini Minx' Complete Solo Non Stop Round Britain and Ireland
27th July 2009 News From the Afloat.ie Archive
Ben Rogerson and his Mini-Transat 6.50m yacht 'Mini Minx' returned triumphant to Cowes with a successful completion of 1,924 Nautical Mile Solo Non-Stop Round Britain and Ireland Passage at 0625 hrs UTC Saturday 25 July 2009 in a total of…
The RORC Channel Race started in beautiful sailing conditions with 10-12 knots of wind and bright sunshine but as the fleet beat East down the Channel, the wind built and by Royal Sovereign Lighthouse was at over 20 knots. The…
Mount Gay Rum is going all out to make its presence felt throughout this year’s Cowes Week. With a mix of promotions and competitions on the cards, this heritage brand is really mixing it up to reaffirm its loyalty to…
New and improved from Niro-Petersen – a deck fitting to open their Gennaker Pin that makes it even easier to remove the pin by removing the bolts, and it can be easily lifted up and stored away.
Preparations are now being finalised to welcome both Irish and overseas youth sailors and their families to the Irish Optimist National and Open Championships 2009, which is being hosted on behalf of IODAI, the governing body of the Optimist class…
Howth Yacht Club played host to the inaugural Dublin Match Racing Open on Saturday and Sunday. Chief umpire Mike O’Conner and PRO Dave Lovegrove put on a superb weekends racing – 11 teams from around Ireland and one from the…
Nexus Marine AB, specialists in the design and manufacture of navigation instrumentation for racing and cruising yachts, has announced the launch of a new large digit repeating instrument – the XL20 – into its family of NXR instruments.
Ireland won the junior women’s match by one point from England at the Home International Rowing Championships in Nottingham. England were best in the senior women’s and men’s matches, and pipped Ireland by two points in the junior men’s match.…
Isn’t it wonderful when you can’t turn around for Festivals, Courses, Fairs and Regattas? We at Afloat love the summer so let’s make the best of it: a big event is Calves Week at Schull in Cork, but there’s other…
Britain’s most successful Olympic sailor, Ben Ainslie took part in Henri Lloyd’s Autumn/Winter 2009 Lifestyle campaign shoot which was located in autumnal London.
Preliminary results from Saturday's light air fifth ISORA RAYC Lee Overlay Dun Laoghaire to North India buoy race show Vincent Farrell's Tsunami having won the 11 boat race. Second to the First 40.7 was Galileo (a 47.7) jointly owned by…
Newly crowned 2009 UK Mirror National Champions Ross Kearney from Belfast and Katy Jones (pictured over the fold by Paul Todd) are looking forward to racing at the 2009 Mirror World Championship which kicks off on the Irish Sea in…
Gareth May's Ibis continued its winning way in Howth at the weekend's national championships. Having taken the lead at the half way stage of the Puppeteer regatta, the local pressed home his advantage over club mate David Clarke's Harlequin yesterday.…
Red Bay RNLI in callout to man trapped under rocks off Antrim coast
26th July 2009 News From the Afloat.ie Archive
The volunteer lifeboat crew from Red Bay RNLI were involved in a 10-hour rescue operation to free a man trapped under rocks at Fair Head off the Antrim coast in County Antrim. The lifeboat crew launched at 2.30pm on Saturday…
Butler and Moore sew up Fireball title with race to spare
25th July 2009 News From the Afloat.ie Archive
With a single race still to be sailed, Noel Butler and Seamus Moore have sewn up the Fireball Nationals in Mayo. Adding 4, 2, 1 and 2 to their overnight score, they sit with eight points overall. Andy Pearce and…
At 10 o'clock this morning Swansea Coastguard on the far side of the Iriush Sea received a 999 call from a man reporting that his friend had jumped from cliffs in Southgate in South Gower and had dislocated his shoulder.…
Etchell European Champion Jay Bourke sailing Alley Cat won both the Dublin Bay Flying Fifteen races this afternoon in a southerly breeze gusting to 10 knots. For full DBSC results click the read more button.
