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Route Des Princes Update 7am – 5 Multihulls Arrive in Dun Laoghaire Harbour
19th June 2013 Route des Princes
#routedesprinces – After a light air sail up the Irish Sea, five of a fleet of nine Route des Princes multihulls are now berthed alongside the East Pier in Dun Laoghaire, arriving overnight. In spite of holding the lead at…
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#RNLI - Arklow RNLI supporters are being asked to come out and walk or jog a midnight mile - four laps of the running track at Coral Leisure Centre - in Arklow this Friday 21 June. The walk/run will take…
#Offshore - BBC News reports that a sailor who went missing last week during a solo voyage from Plymouth to Portugal has been located and airlifted to hospital after falling overboard. The 66-year-old man set off last Monday 10 June…
#RNLI - Portaferry RNLI launched on Saturday afternoon 15 June to go to the rescue of a small craft which had lost power in Strangford Lough, Co Down. The volunteer lifeboat crew was alerted at 1.10pm following a call that…
#Surfing - Two national broadcasters will base themselves in Bundoran this week ahead of the Sea Sessions Surf Music Festival at the weekend. Today FM’s KC Show will broadcast live from the Bundoran RNLI Lifeboat Station tomorrow 19 June and…
#MaritimeFestival – As previously reported on Afloat.ie the 2nd John Barry Maritime Festival (20-23 June) starts this week and is a celebration of the Wexford-born Commodore John Barry, father of the US Navy. The four-day festival covers Wexford's rich maritime…
#quicksand – HM Coastguard is once again reminding people of the dangers of quicksand and mud in Morecambe Bay after three rescues in just over a fortnight. The first incident was reported to Liverpool Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) on…
#routedesprinces – Damian Foxall leads the Route des Princes race this lunchtime, rounding the Fastnet rock to get his first glimpse of home in several months. [Scroll down the page to listen to the podcast]. From on board Omansail, Foxall…
# ROWING: Rowing Ireland has announced the appointment of Gordon Reid as a full time Belfast-based Club and Coach Development Officer. Reid will be responsible for leading the development and improvement of the Rowing Ireland club development system within…
#BelfastLough – Belfast's Harland and Wolff Group (H&W) continues to operate as an expanding diverse engineering business. The group has a number of special capabilities related to marine engineering and design, ship repair, and including offshore wind-farm fabrication. The company…
#cruiserracing.ie – ICRA didn't nominate a 'Boat-of-the-Regatta' at its Tralee–based championships but with all the praise from RORC about Ireland's dual handicap system, Afloat.ie reckons we should hear it for Ray McGibney's vintage Dehler 34 Dis-a-Ray, which we know well…
The Irish Cruiser Racing Associtation (ICRA) has been given a ringing endorsement of the scoring system deployed at the cruiser national championships in Tralee by the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) in London who see the Irish dual scoring system 'providing…
#TransatJV – Kerry's Damian Foxall will use this week's Irish stop of the Route des Princes Multihull race to announce his next International offshore sailing campaign. The new venture by the Irish Volvo Ocean race winner and his French skipper Sidney…
Kinsale Yacht Club Open the Door on New Clubhouse Just in Time for the Sovereign's Cup
18th June 2013 Sovereign's Cup
Kinsale Yacht Club officially opened its club house just in time to host the Sovereign's Cup for cruiser classes and 1720s next week (27th-30th June). The south coast club will also stage the International Federation of Disabled Sailing World Championships…
#fireball – The Irish Fireball scene moved away from the Tuesday evening and Saturday afternoon racing in Dublin Bay to the scenic venue of Carlingford Lough Yacht Club in the South-East corner of Northern Ireland. The club, which currently enjoys…
#rorc – The 120-mile race to Guernsey produced some of the toughest conditions in this year's RORC Season's Points Championship so far. However one of the smallest yachts in the race claimed overall victory in the 85 strong fleet writes…
#portfofcork – Are you a budding photographer with a keen interest in all things related to Cork Harbour and the Port of Cork? If so then you should enter the Port of Cork Photography Competition. Through the lens of people…
Francis Joyon has shattered the North Atlantic record: 5 days, 2 hours, 56 minutes and 10 seconds or in other words a time that is 16 hours, 34 minutes and 30 seconds less than the previous record set by Thomas…
#etchells – At the Etchells World Championship in Rosignano, Italy the top Irish boat was Richard Burrows and crew from Howth who finished 12th in the 41–boat fleet. (download results below as a pdf file). There was no wind and no…