Afloat – Ireland's Sailing and Boating Magazine
#Dredging - Freeway, a trailing suction hopper dredger is working on removing silt from the shipping channel on Waterford Estuary between Belview Port and out to sea, writes Jehan Ashmore. The Dutch flagged vessel with a dredging spoil capacity of…
Newcastle RNLI Searches After Flare Sighting In Third Callout This Week
19th February 2016 RNLI Lifeboats
#RNLI - Newcastle RNLI had their third call of the week last night (Thursday 18 February) with volunteers involved in a three-hour search operation after flares were sighted off the Co Down coast. Newly appointed coxswain Alan Jones had the…
#RNLI - The volunteer lifeboat crew at Portaferry RNLI launched yesterday evening (Thursday 18 February) to go to the aid of two men on board an angling boat experiencing engine problems off the Co Down coast. The volunteer crew of…
RNLI Volunteers Walk The Red Carpet At Gala Screening Of 'The Finest Hours'
19th February 2016 RNLI Lifeboats
#RNLI - Volunteer lifeboat crew from three RNLI stations in Dublin were in Dundrum on Wednesday evening (17 February) for the Irish gala screening of Disney's latest action film The Finest Hours. Volunteers Gerry Canning and Eoin Kelly from Skerries…
Cruise Ships 'Super-Sized' Could Still Come to Dún Laoghaire Harbour
19th February 2016 Dun Laoghaire Harbour News
#SuperSized - A berth for “super-sized” cruise ships in Dun Laoghaire Harbour could still be provided in spite of the introduction of a development plan which blocks their entry to the harbour. Councillors have inserted a provision in the new…
Not the best start to a day's sailing... A facebook video shows a car rolling over the edge of a Spanish quayside and a distressed driver in hot pursuit. The accompanying caption: 'If you park in a port: use your…
After a tricky end to the first race where a 1720 had to be rescued from the surf on Dublin Bay, the second race of the Rathfarnham Ford sponsored DBSC Spring Chicken series starts this Sunday morning. Downloadable below are last…
Volvo Car UK is delighted to announce sponsorship of a third youth class in 2016 – the International Topper Class Association (GBR. Volvo Car UK has been a key sponsor of British sailing since 1999, supporting everything from youth development…
#Shipping - The Irish Times reports that an Irish-owned ship transporting humanitarian supplies has been detained by Arab coalition forces on suspicion of smuggling arms to Yemen. The MV Mainport Cedar (see Afloat's coverage in 2014), a seismic survey support…
Marine Notice: New SOLAS Requirements For Verification Of Gross Mass Of Containers
18th February 2016 Ports & Shipping
#MarineNotice - The latest Marine Notice from the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport details new SOLAS requirements for the verification of the gross mass of shipping containers. Following concerns raised internationally by the shipping industry in relation to the…
#CoastalNotes - An American college's unmanned research vessel has been found on the shores of a Connemara island some eight months after students put it to sea 6,000 miles across the Atlantic in North Carolina. As Port City Daily reports,…
#ISA - It's shaping up to be a year of big changes for trainees, tutors and coaches with the Irish Sailing Association as the organisation evolves to meet the demands of 21st–century sailing. After taking on board feedback from the…
#VOR - The Volvo Ocean Race has appointed North Sails to be the exclusive official supplier of sails to the Volvo Ocean 65 one-design fleet in 2017-18. North Sails supplied the sail wardrobe for the last Volvo Ocean Race, which…
#ISA - Irish Sailing Association members will be asked to approve the adoption of a revised ISA Constitution at the organisation's AGM at the Green Isle Hotel on Saturday 9 April. The ISA says it has been working over the…
Shannon Foynes Turnaround as 2015 Tonnages at Almost Peak of Last Decade
18th February 2016 Shannon Estuary
#ShannonGrowth - Tonnage growth at Ireland’s largest bulk port, Shannon Foynes Port Company (SFPC) revealed that the 2015 throughput was almost back to the peak of the last decade and this is evidence of the recovery taking hold in the…
High Hopes for MacCarthy as 22 Irish GP14s are Packed for Barbados World Champs
18th February 2016 GP14
22 Irish GP14s took the first step on the journey to the Caribbean when they arrived on a drizzly wet Saturday morning at SureFreight's Yard off the Crumlin Road, Belfast. Barbados Yacht Club welcomes the international fleet of 72 GP14s for racing…
The Royal Ocean Racing Club's UK domestic season fires up with the Easter Challenge, taking place on the Solent over the Bank Holiday weekend of 25-27th March. Last year, Anthony O'Leary's Royal Cork crew won the Spring event overall and…
Irish Sailing Association Awarded €323,000 in Annual Funding From Sport Ireland
17th February 2016 ISA
The Irish Sailing Association has been awarded €323,000 just €100 less than 2015 in the annual payout from Sport Ireland, formerly known as the Irish Sports Council. Rowing Ireland was awarded 210,000. Sport Ireland, the newly created agency for the…
Derry–Londonderry–Doire Celebrates First Clipper 2015-16 Race Win into Da Nang, Vietnam
17th February 2016 Clipper Race
Following a challenging 27 day race of endurance from Airlie Beach, Australia, in which crew faced a vast range of weather conditions, Clipper race entry Derry~Londonderry~Doire arrived victorious to a massive crowd of waiting spectators and media in Da Nang,…
The Monster…in more ways than one. #Cupwinners
Posted by James Spithill on Sunday, 14 February 2016
The (Bermuda) Government has spent just over $14 million on the America's Cup as of December 2015, the House of Assembly heard on Friday, with the figures being provided by Minister of Economic Development Dr Grant Gibbons following Parliamentary Questions…
