Afloat – Ireland's Sailing and Boating Magazine
Royal St George’s McCourt & O’Leary Take Victory in 20–Boat DBSC Flying Fifteen Fleet
11th May 2018 Flying Fifteen
In what started as a drifter for the DBSC Flying Fifteens and the PRO Jack Roy considering cancelling the racing for the evening a fresh breeze filled in from the SW and provided perhaps the most exciting conditions for racing…
#RNLI - Lough Derg RNLI launched yesterday evening (Thursday 10 May) following a request by Valentia Coast Guard to assist a person on a 23ft speed boat broken down by The Goat Road on the eastern shore of the River Shannon…
#Angling - Scientists of the Fish Health Unit at the Marine Institute have advised that sample carp taken from The Lough and Belvelly Lake in Cork have tested positive for carp edema virus, or CEV. The poxvirus causes a disease…
Irish ocean racer Tom Dolan was inside the last 100 miles of the 4,000-mile AG2R La Mondiale Transat race on Friday, battling tropical squalls en route to the finish. Dolan and French co-skipper Tanguy Bouroullec, sailing Smurfit Kappa-Cerfrance, were placed…
#MarineScience - The Industry-Led Awards 2018 under the Marine Research Programme has been launched by the Marine Institute. The Industry-Led Awards funded by the Marine Institute will provide assistance for appropriate research activities that support the goals of Harnessing Our…
Asymmetric or Symmetric? Which Spinnaker Type to Use & How To Set It
11th May 2018 UK Sailmakers Ireland
Sailing Professional Mark Mansfield, who is a Racing Consultant with UK Sailmakers Ireland, goes through the different spinnaker sail options and how to set and control each of them. This is the latest in a series of information articles produced…
#Ports&Shipping - Arklow Dale is the first cargoship to bear the name for the Co. Wicklow based shipowner which acquired the secondhand tonnage that forms as the third D class sister, writes Jehan Ashmore. Afloat had been trawling through the…
National Yacht Club Now Firmly Positioned as Mitsubishi Motors Sailing Club of the Year 2018
11th May 2018 W M Nixon
The sailing community in Ireland is a tribe. And our many and various clubhouses are its temples writes W M Nixon. You get a real sense of this of this at the annual presentation of the Mitsubishi Motors “Sailing Cub…
Olympic Silver Medalist Annalise Murphy has quit the Laser Radial dinghy and launched a two–year campaign for the Tokyo Olympics in the 49er FX skiff dinghy. The news is revealed in this morning's Irish Times Sailing Column here and it…
#FerryNews - Connemara, Brittany Ferries chartered ropax completed a maiden Cork-Santander crossing this afternoon, marking the historic first arrival of an Ireland-Spain ferry service, writes Jehan Ashmore. Under glorious blue skies, Connemara arrived into Santander Bay and docked at the…
With 240–miles to the finish line at St Barth, Tom Dolan's “Smurfit Kappa Cerfrance” from the National Yacht Club is now in 11th place overall and in second place in the rookie class, only nine miles behind Teamwork, who is…
#DublinBay - Murky seawater in Dublin Bay should not be blamed on dredging, according to Dublin Port Company’s CEO. Earlier this week, it emerged that all planned diving excursions in Dublin Bay by Irish Underwater Council members had been cancelled…
Youth Champion Sailor Justin Lucas To Contest Ulster Optimist Championships at Malahide
10th May 2018 Optimist
Optimist Youth pathway champion Justin Lucas, who became Afloat.ie Sailor of the Month for his performance on Dublin Bay in April, will be in action at the Ulster Championships at Malahide Yacht Club next weekend. The fourteen–year–old Tralee Bay and…
#FerryNews - Irish Ferries parent company, Irish Continental Group (ICG) said its revenues rose by 1.4% to €96.4m in the first four months of the year. A trading statement from the company reported an increase in its consumer and freight…
Cruiseship Caller to Welsh Port Anchors off Marina Marking Busy Cruise Season
10th May 2018 Cruise Liners
#CruiseLiners - A cruiseship that is due to Dublin Port tomorrow is at the time of writing entering the deepwater south Wales port of Milford Haven this afternoon. The German cruiseship Albatros will become the first caller in Milford Haven…
#FerryNews - At the centre of the Conservative Party is an ongoing spat over post-Brexit customs arrangements that shows a solution remains out of reach. As the Daily Post writes, Theresa May’s preferred new “customs partnership” model was instantly shot…
Grand Soleil 44 Leads ISORA as Offshore Race Reroutes to Dun Laoghaire Due to Lack of Marina at Holyhead
10th May 2018 ISORA
Frank Whelan's Grand Soleil 44 Eleuthera goes into Saturday's first ISORA qualifying race of 60–miles as the overall series leader but the Greystones Sailing Club entry is only narrowly ahead of second placed Royal St. George's Chris & Patanne Power Smith's, J/122 Aurelia.…
Aisling Keller Makes Laser Euros Gold Fleet, Finn Lynch Misses Cut By One Place
10th May 2018 Tokyo 2020
Finn Lynch narrowly missed out on Gold fleet racing overnight – by a single place – after three days of qualifying races at the Laser European Championships in La Rochelle, France. While Ireland's three boat Olympic Laser sailing team competing…
Dun Laoghaire Lifeboat Called Out Twice To Boats Fouled On Pots
9th May 2018 Dun Laoghaire Harbour News
#RNLI - Dun Laoghaire RNLI’s all-weather lifeboat was called out twice in quick succession this afternoon (Wednesday 9 May) to two separate vessels fouled on fishing pots. The volunteer crew of Dun Laoghaire launched to assist one boat that had…
A brand new 45–foot Lagoon catamaran will be the highlight of a display of new craft going on show at Howth Yacht Club this weekend. The north Dublin club, in association with broker MGM Boats, will host an 'open weekend' at…
