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#WIORA - Following Wednesday's wild offshore spin, competition for places in WIORA was heating up yesterday (Friday 24 July), with a number of close-quarters incidents despite the size of Galway Bay, writes Jim Grealish. In class 2, WIORA Commodore Simon…

#DBSC - Dublin Bay Sailing Club results for 25 July 2015: BENETEAU 31.7 - 1. After You Too (Michael Blaney), 2. Crazy Horse (F Heath & I Schuster), 3. Prospect (Chris Johnston) BENETEAU 31.7 Echo- 1. Crazy Horse (F Heath &…

#SmokeMortar - Murlough Beach on the Co Down coast was red-flagged by attending RNLI lifeguards on Thursday afternoon (23 July) after the discovery of an object that turned out to be a smoke mortar. Lifeguards sprang into action after a…

#RNLI - Following Thursday's callout to a yacht with engine trouble off Greystones, Wicklow RNLI's all-weather lifeboat launched at 3.45pm yesterday afternoon (Friday 24 July) to a Swedish registered yacht with a rope-fouled propeller, 10 miles north-east of Wicklow Harbour.…

#RNLI - Volunteers from Lough Ree RNLI assisted a family of four last week after the cruiser they were in ran aground. The crew was requested to launch their inshore lifeboat at 11.30am on Thursday 16 July following a report that…

#OnTV - The fruits of John Creedon's epic journey along the full length of the Wild Atlantic Way will be for all to see when the first of his new three-part TV series airs on RTÉ One tomorrow evening. Creedon’s…

#Swim360 - Two years ago they became the first people to navigate Asia's longest river from source to sea by kayak when they completed the 16,000-mile Silk Roads to Shanghai. Now David Burns and Maghnus Collins are undertaking another great challenge…

#Rowing: Coleraine man Joel Cassells won a silver medal at the World Under-23 Championships today. The 21-year-old was in the number two seat in the Britain lightweight quadruple sculls which were 2.1 seconds off the gold medal position in Plovdiv,…

#MarineScience - Canada's Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Gail Shea joined Kathryn Sullivan, US Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and NOAA Administrator and Marine Minister Simon Coveney to issue a statement yesterday (Friday 24 July) welcoming the second…

#Ports&ShippingReview – Over the last fortnight, Jehan Ashmore has reported on the shipping scene with the following stories below. An independent report by SEMRU of NUI Galway claims that a planned International Shipping Services Centre (ISSC) could put the Irish…

#Fishing - Fishing harbours in Galway are set to share in a €200,000 funding bonus, as Galway Bay FM reports. The additional funding under the 2015 Fishery Harbour Capital Investment Programme will go to the small craft harbour development at…

#Rowing: Erik Rowan gave Ireland a very good start to the fourth day of the World Under-23 Championships in Plovdiv in Bulgaria with a fine win in the D Final of the men’s single sculls. The race was notably close…

#wildatlanticway – There's an elemental quality to Ireland's Atlantic seaboard which can be more than matched by the weather the ocean throws at it. In the recent Transatlantic Race, the participants commented – often forcefully - on the extreme sailing…

#lasertrials – 2014 ISAF Youth Sailing Silver Medallist Seafra Guilfoyle is receiving treatment for a slipped disk but refuses to rule himself out of the running for the forthcoming Laser Olympic Trial that featured in this morning's Water Rat Column.…

#Rowing: Ireland qualified two boats for C Finals in the evening session at the World Under-23 Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. In the lightweight double sculls C/D semi-final, Liam Keane and Stephen O’Connor did well to take the third qualification spot.…

#rosslare – Iarnród Éireann, Port Authority for Rosslare Europort, has held the first meeting of a new Stakeholder Advisory Group for the Europort, with representatives of port customers (shipping companies), the local authority, business and tourism locally, hauliers, fishing, employees…

#FerryContract- The Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht is seeking Expressions of Interest for the operation of a passenger ferry service between Whiddy Island and the Co. Cork mainland. The contract term for the operation of the passenger ferry…

#rnli – Lifeboat crew with Larne RNLI took their new D class lifeboat out on its first exercise to Brown's Bay last night (Thursday 23 July) following its arrival at the station. The lifeboat is to be named Terry and…

#ThirdSister- A Japanese shipyard has delivered Ardmore Chinook, the third newbuild out of series of four tankers for Ardmore Shipping Corporation. The 25,000dwt tonnes IMO2 product and chemical tanker Ardmore Chinook was delivered by Fukuoka Shipbuilding Co. Ltd from their…

#rossbrinboatyard – After 31 years in business at Rossbrin boatyard in Schull, West Cork, Edmund and Erika Krugel are retiring at the end of the month, handing over to James Murphy and his partner Bernadette Wilcox. Murphy has been with…