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Canadian Coastguard Hat Found In Tramore 'Most Likely From Newfoundland'
4th January 2016 Coastal Notes
#CoastalNotes - The Canadian coastguard hat found washed up on a Co Waterford beach before Christmas may have been traced to Newfoundland, according to CBC News. As previously reported on Afloat.ie, Tramore man Craig Butler found the barnacle-encrusted hat while…
New Tourism Video Hypes Skellig Michael As Destination For Star Wars Fans
4th January 2016 Island News
#StarWars - Tourism Ireland is hoping the success of the new Star Wars movie will attract fans in their droves to Skellig Michael and the Kerry coast, as TheJournal.ie reports. And the tourism marketing board has launched a new video…
#Obstruction - Normal sailings by the Isle of Man Steam Packet have resumed reports Manx Radio. Heysham Authorities have confirmed that the obstruction at the entrance to the port has been cleared. A piece of timber had become embedded in the…
The Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania and Derwent Sailing Squadron in Australia are to jointly host the SB20 World Championships in January 2018. Between 80 and 100 of the high-performance SB20 sportsboats are expected to contest the Worlds, which will…
The 1978 Ed Dubois designed and professionally IRC optimised Quarter Tonner Supernova is for sale for just under €15,000. The 2011 winner of Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta is advertised on Afloat boats for sale here.
County Mayo based Sailing School, 'Uisce' are looking for energetic and enthusiastic senior sailing instructors for its sailing school through the Irish language. Applicants must have all certification in date, a willingness to learn the Irish Language (classes available) and the ability to…
World Sailing Statement On Withdrawal By Israel Of Its Sailors From Youth Worlds
4th January 2016 Youth Sailing
The World Sailing executive has now received the interim report on the situation concerning the participation and conditions placed on Israeli sailors for the Youth Sailing World Championships in Malaysia. World Sailing has demanded an immediate full explanation from both…
With the sailing complete, the 45th Youth Sailing World Championships officially came to an end with the closing ceremony at the Mahsuri International Exhibition Centre in Langkawi, Malaysia. Ireland took home a third youth medal in four years at the…
Jules Verne Trophy Record Remains Intact But IDEC SPORT & Spindrift 2 Continue Race Against Clock
3rd January 2016 Jules Verne Trophy
The Jules Verne Trophy record is not going to be beaten on this occasion. Small areas of low pressure and large highs spread across the Pacific and South Atlantic in particular, have dashed the hopes and ambitions of the two…
Winter Storms No Match For Frank Kowalski's Irish Built Safehaven Patrol Vessels
3rd January 2016 Safehaven Marine
Cool as a cucumber in some very scary seas, watch Irish boat builder Frank Kowalski put two of his new Barracuda vessels through their paces off the Daunt Rock outside Cork Harbour on the South coast of Ireland. The video shows a…
What Monaghan people do when Frank attacks! (Chris Hoey is the Wakeboarder)
Posted by Evelyn Boylan on Wednesday, 30 December 2015
One opportunistic Wakerboarder made the most of the floods at the traffic lights in Monaghan town. The high speed water dash was captured by Facebooker Eveyln Boylan and has been shared over 30,000 times since posting on December 30!
Swimmer In Difficulty Sparks First 2016 Callout For Skerries Lifeboat
3rd January 2016 RNLI Lifeboats
#RNLI - Skerries RNLI responded to their first callout of 2016 yesterday morning (Saturday 2 January) as they launched to reports of swimmer in difficulty off Rush. Pagers sounded shortly before 10am after Dublin Coast Guard received reports that a…
Howth Yacht Club's Douglas Elmes (17) and Colin O'Sullivan (16) have won a bronze medal for Ireland at the World Youth Sailing Championships that concluded in Malaysia today. The Irish National Champions sailed a consistent series in the 420 dinghy…
#GalwayHooker - Tune in to TG4 tonight (Saturday 2 January) at 8.30pm for a special look back at the first Galway Hooker race from Aran to Kerry almost three decades ago. Rás na Húicéirí go Ciarraí 1987 features highlights of…
#Obstruction – An Isle of Man ferry that was stuck from entering Heysham Port on New Year’s Day due to a ‘submerged obstruction’, it now transpires was caused by a large piece of timber that broke free during the winter…
Youth Worlds Update: Elmes & O'Sullivan Move Into Third, Australian Boys Disqualified From Race 8
2nd January 2016 Youth Sailing
Irish 420 pairing Douglas Elmes and Colin O'Sullivan have moved into third place at the World Youth Sailing Championships and are within a single point of the silver medal after Australians were sensationally disqualified from race eight this afternoon in…
#TideTurns-The Irish Examiner looks at future developments of the City of Cork, among which are featured below plans for the city-centre ‘docklands’ and for the port downriver in the lower harbour. The An Bord Pleanala granting of planning for Port…
2015 was a busy year for the Irish National Sailing & Powerboat School and the school is hoping to be even busier in 2016 writes school principal Kenneth Rumball. 2015 was a huge year of change for the Irish National…
Counting two more top ten results, a seven and four, Irish 420 dinghy sailors Douglas Elmes and Colin O'Sullivan of Howth Yacht Club are on equal points with Brazil in the chase for bronze as the World Youth Sailing Championships…
#Flooding - Moves to prevent flooding in the Shannon catchment may be in breach of EU habitats directives, as The Irish Times reports. Next Tuesday (5 January) the Taoiseach is expected convene a meeting of all relevant State agencies to…
