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Foxall aims for Extreme 40 circuit
Having completed eight Round the World races in the last eight years, this summer Barcelona World race hero Damian Foxall is staying inshore. Foxall is back in Ireland next week attending the Maritime Ball at Dun Laoghaire, hosted by the…
Entries are now being accepted for the annual Classic Malts Cruise – a unique two-week sailing voyage along the spectacular coastline of north-west Scotland from July 12 to 25. The UK’s biggest non-competitive sailing event, the annual Classic Malts Cruise…
A team of emergency paramedics will now be available to treat people injured in marine accidents on board a Coast Guard helicopter. Paramedics will no longer have to wait on land for those injured at sea while the Coast Guard…
‘Scaoil Seol’, a new six-part reality series for TG4, will show the viewing public how easy – or difficult – it is to start sailing when it follows the efforts of ten novice sailors as they learn to sail from…
AIRFLOAT LTD Tree Lodge, Yopps Green, Plaxtol, Kent TN15 0PY, UK T 0044 1732 810 163 F 0044 1732 851 861 E [email protected] W www.airfloatmps.com Stand Executives: Patrick Connon, David Connon and Sandra Taylor Airfloat the unique modular Pontoon System…
Ger O'Rourke Sailor of the Year
Springtime may be the start of the season but Irish sailors were back on the waterfront in force this week to applaud Ger O’Rourke when he lifted the Cork Dry Gin Sailor of the Year award, while abroad Dubliner Ciara…
The call of the sea ignored by government
It was a source of pride to the country's sailing community when Damian Foxall went to Aras an Uachtarain last month, because the visit brought state acknowledgement of the biggest sailing achievement in years. Sailors believed it was through this…
The ISAF has produced a one-page set of introductory rules for racing to help newcomers to the sport. The move is aimed at making it as easy as possible for beginners to take up and compete in sailing, and so…
Feast or famine for Star class
You wait all day for a bus and then two come along at once. Just like the Number 7, there's a queue formed for the chance to represent Ireland in the men's keelboat class at the Olympics. Slow, lumbering and…
Damien Foxall - professionalism and endurance
It was, by all accounts, Damian Foxall’s most daunting voyage so far. But pictured wearing shorts and shades and tucking into chocolate, the modest Kerryman would be uncomfortable with the suggestion that his achievements in the past three months merit…
Waiting for wind
SOUNDINGS – FEBRUARY/MARCH 2008 When the decent sea breezes which were expected in a sunny Cork Week didn’t materialise some years ago, we were given an explanation. The official word was that it was because there’d been so much rain…
Old lady nursed back to life
SEASCAPES – FEBRUARY/MARCH 2008 “Ships and boats are the nearest things to dreams that human hands have ever made.” I remember those words being spoken to me by an experienced old boat-builder many years ago and they came to mind…
Green Team surfing downwind
Fast sailors are the first to catch the waves downwind. Surfing gives them the edge and it is a useful metaphor to describe the performances of two Irish offshore teams, one in gestation and one with a 1,000-mile lead in…
Cast off this summer's blues with a trip to the English South Coast for the annual Autumn on-the-water boat show, writes David O'Brien

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Afloat Ireland's boating Magazine! Afloat, in over 50 years of production, is a vibrant specialist magazine in print online which has continually adapted to the demands of its readership, with an industry insight which is quite simply unique. Edited by…
A team of Galway businessmen lead by Enda O'Coineen have secured eight million from the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism for an entry in to the 2008 Volvo Ocean yacht race it was announced last night.The money which amounts…
Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) Results for Saturday, 8 June 2013
Dublin Bay Sailing Club Results for 8 JUNE 2013 BENETEAU 31.7 Echo- 1. After You Too (Michael Blaney), 2. Prima Nocte (Patrick Burke et al), 3. Avalon (R.Conan/J.Fox) BENETEAU 31.7 - 1. After You Too (Michael Blaney), 2. Prima Nocte…
MN:55 Shannon Navigation Lough Ree Athlone Boat Club Regatta
MARINE NOTICE No 55 of 2013 SHANNON NAVIGATION Lough Ree - Killinure Lough Athlone Boat Club Regatta Mooring Restrictions at Coosan Pt. Lough Ree Marine Notice No. 45 of 2013 refers. Masters are advised that the southern half of Coosan…
Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) Results for Tuesday, 11 June 2013
CRUISERS 3 Tuesday - 1. Papytoo (M Walsh/F Guilfoyle), 2. UpD8 (Whelan/McCabe/Carey/Cramer), 3. Snowbird (A McCormack/A Baird) FIREBALL - 1. No Name (S Oram), 2. Goodness Gracious (Louise McKenna), 3. Mr. Tipsy (J Clancy/C Clancy) GLEN - 1. Glendun (B.Denham…
MN56: Erne System Jetty & Slipway Closures G8 2013
MARINE NOTICE No. 56 of 2013 Erne System Jetty & Slipway Closures for G8 2013 13th-19th June Marine Notice No 27 of 2013 refers Waterways Ireland wishes to advise all users of the Erne System of the following: The Waterways…

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