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The Irish Maritime Web Awards

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Recognising excellence in Irish marine communications in the digital age.

Awards will be made for website
excellence in the following categories:
Sailing
Watersport
Industry
Clubs
Classes
Safety
Inland
Ports
Environment

We want you to nominate your favourite marine based website to be included in the awards. You can do this by leaving a suggestion comment at afloat.ie, or on our facebook post, or by twitter!

The overall national award will be presented to the website which, in the judges' opinion, achieved the most notable scores under the headings of design, useability, interaction, social media, community and speed.

Voting will take place with a judging panel representing all areas above.

William M Nixon has been writing about sailing in Ireland and internationally for many years, with his work appearing in leading sailing publications on both sides of the Atlantic. He has been a regular sailing columnist for four decades with national newspapers in Dublin, and has had several sailing books published in Ireland, the UK, and the US. An active sailor, he has owned a number of boats ranging from a Mirror dinghy to a Contessa 35 cruiser-racer, and has been directly involved in building and campaigning two offshore racers. His cruising experience ranges from Iceland to Spain as well as the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, and he has raced three times in both the Fastnet and Round Ireland Races, in addition to sailing on two round Ireland records. A member for ten years of the Council of the Irish Yachting Association (now the Irish Sailing Association), he has been writing for, and at times editing, Ireland's national sailing magazine since its earliest version more than forty years ago