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#Kitesurfing - Raising awareness of this country's perfect conditions for wave-riding – and some of the best local practitioners of the sport – is the aim of a new video series by the Irish Kitesurfing Project. As Surfer Today reports,…

#BoudiccaBalconies - Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines’ 880-guest Boudicca is currently undergoing refurbishment in a drydock at Lloyd Werft's shipyard in Bremerhaven, Germany, in preparation for the forthcoming 2016/17 cruise season. The 28,55I tonnes Boudicca docked in Bremerhaven last week from…

#MarineScience - The Marine Institute is hosting a one-day event for marine researchers and SMEs looking at cross-cutting opportunities in Horizon 2020 and the Interreg Atlantic Area Programme. The first part of the day, on Thursday 7 January 2016 from…

#DoubleDelivery - Ardmore Shipping Corporation has been delivered two tanker vessels from yards in Asia, to complete two separate newbuilding programmes as previously reported on Afloat.ie back in August. Ardmore Chippewa is a 49,999 DWT IMO 2/3 product and chemical…

It may only be silver fleet racing for Annalise Murphy but there has been a thrilling start to the Laser Radial Women’s World Championship Final Series in Oman yesterday where the final rounds are due to take place today. The…

I spent last Sunday morning, under a blue sky, with a steady breeze, watching high-tech yachts racing. Impressively beating to the weather mark, reaching and running downwind on a triangle/sausage/triangle course, with a couple of incidents to test the equanimity…

The Irish Optimist Dinghy Association of Ireland (IODAI) will hold its spring training week at Baltimore sailing Club in West Cork over the February 2016 Mid-term break. This is Ireland’s largest sailing camp and generally caters for up to 160 sailors from…

#PortEnvironment - Environmental compensatory measures made as part of the Galway Harbour Company’s plans for the expansion of the city’s docks will it is hoped by the port accepted by the National Parks and Wildlife Service. According to Galway Bay…

#StaffCuts – Large ferry operator, Stena Line looks set to introduce drastic pay cuts for new staff and dozens of its current temporary workers. And it's those on 'zero-hour' contracts which are set to feel the brunt of the cuts,…

#OppositionFuelPipe - Residents living in Dublin along the route of a planned €20m aviation-fuel pipeline to Dublin Airport have raised safety concerns, according to yesterday's Irish Examiner.  Last month, Dublin City Council gave the green light to Fingleton White Ltd…

Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has welcomed the newest event on the Scottish racing calendar. For, in June 2016, the P1 Powerboat Scottish Grand Prix of the Sea will be hosted in Inverclyde. To celebrate, a specially designed Inverclyde branded boat…

Week 3 of the DMYC Frostbites in Dun Laoghaire Harbour showed a more friendly (wind wise), but less friendly (temperature wise) forecast, this led to many of the RS fleet finally opening their frostbite series despite there being 3 races…

#RNLI - Wicklow RNLI's all-weather lifeboat launched at 5.31pm yesterday evening (Sunday 22 November) to assist a yacht with two people on board at Wicklow Harbour. The skipper of the 10-metre yacht contacted the coastguard for assistance after briefly running…

#Submarine - RAF aircraft have been joined by French and Canadian counterparts as well as a Royal Navy frigate in the search for a Russian submarine reported to have been seen off the Scottish coast. According to The Scotsman, it's…

Derry~Londonderry~Doire has clinched second place into Albany, Western Australia, at the end of Race 3 across the Southern Ocean from Cape Town, South Africa, in the Wardan Whip. It crossed the line within twelve hours of first placed LMAX Exchange…

Blue Skies and bright sun were were welcome visitors for the second day of racing at the O’Leary Insurance Winter League writes Claire Bateman. A sizeable fleet of twenty boats arrived on the start line this morning ready and eager…

The Flying Fifteen & friends annual dinner and prize giving took place at the National Yacht Club at the weekend. The class mustered over 90 for dinner with piano accompaniment Terry Brown who generously provided his talents for a donation…

The first ever IRC European Championship will take place during Volvo Cork Week, 10-15th July 2016, Royal Cork Yacht Club has announced. The new event in the RORC Calendar will be hosted by the Crosshaven club, in the sailing grounds…

Noel Butler and Stephen Oram (15061) tightened their grip on Series 1 of the 2015/16 Fireball Frostbites by winning both races in Dun Laoghaire harbour yesterday writes Cormac Bradley. Despite the suggestion that the weather of the weekend would have a…

Dublin Bay Sailing Club Commodore Pat Shannon will retire at tonight's agm. In his final report to members of Ireland's biggest yacht racing club, Shannon leads his annual review with the club's response to the 'misconceived project' of a berth for…