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After riding out the southwest to west gales on the North Coast on Friday night and early Saturday morning by finding shelter at Rathmulllan in Lough Swilly, Robert Marchant's Fulmar 32 Fulmar Fever from Dunmore East resumed racing, and finished…

The 64-metre superyacht Scout, which recently lit up Cork’s Kinsale marina, arrived in Dun Laoghaire Harbour on Sunday morning (June 30th). The Dublin Port Pilot Boat Tolka escorted it to the town's Carlisle Pier number two berth. As Afloat readers…

Andrew Crosbie and Dan O'Connell are tied on points at the top of the scoreboard (see below) at the Rankin dinghy 'Worlds' after the first three races sailed at the Royal Cork Yacht Club, Crosshaven, on Saturday. Both are on nine points with John…

Patience is a virtue they say and that is what was needed this morning when Belfast Lough was like a mirror and the Bangor Regatta fleet was motionless in the Marina. However word was that this forced stoppage was very…

Saturday's Drumshanbo Royal Irish Yacht Club Regatta 2024 featured racing across 32 divisions for over 130 boats, ranging from ocean-going cruisers to 12-foot dinghies off Dun Laoghaire Harbour. Racing was postponed for an hour to allow a light northerly wind…

A UK towage company, SMS Towage of Hessle, Hull, England, which has operations including Belfast Harbour, has been acquired by Boluda Towage, a division of Boluda Corporación Marítima of Valencia, Spain, writes Jehan Ashmore. Boluda Towage has signed an agreement…

A Scottish shipyard on the Clyde has announced the handover of the first of twin newbuild dual-fuel ferries for CalMac is facing a “slight delay,” with delivery pushed back to the middle of August. The delivery of the first newbuild…

Never mind what's going on elsewhere In Ireland this weekend; with Shania Twain in Belfast's Ormeau Park, Taylor Swift at the Aviva, the All-Ireland Quarter GAA Finals in Croke Park and the Foyle Maritime Festival in Derry, there was plenty…

Leading alternative investment firm Elkstone has announced a new partnership with Irish Olympic sailor Finn Lynch. The Irish athlete first represented Ireland at the 2016 Olympic Games, and he secured his place at the 2024 games after a bronze medal…

The K25 team will represent Howth Yacht Club in the Royal Yacht Squadron’s Commodore’s Invitational Regatta, which will be raced from Cowes in the Isle of Wight next week between Monday 1 and Wednesday 3 July. This is an inter…

Newcastle RNLI’s all-weather lifeboat, the Leonard Kent, was requested to launch around 7.20pm on Thursday evening (27 June) after HM Coastguard received a pan-pan message from a yacht some 20 miles south-east of Newcastle in Co Down, Northern Ireland. The…

Our header photo really says it all. It was 2011 when Rives Potts' now four times Bermuda Race winner Carina rounded the Fastnet Rock in conditions a whole world away from the murky early morning eleven hours earlier, when George…

The Rankin dinghy 'Worlds' will be sailed out of the Royal Cork Yacht Club at Crosshaven this weekend. The highly reverered class based across Cork Harbour in Cobh was revived in 2016 and is moving to the world's oldest yacht…

The Italian J/70 Cup Event starts today in Riva del Garda. Team Wildcard, the only Irish entry for this year's highly competitive event, will fly the flag for Ireland. Team Wildcard from Royal Cork Yacht Club comprises Harry Twomey, Neil…

Blue light and voluntary rescue services will participate in an “emergency services open day” which is being held as part of the “Coastival” festival in Dun Laoghaire. Free guided tours of the Naval Service patrol ship LÉ George Bernard Shaw…

Monkstown Bay Sailing Club's weekly evening leagues have big numbers on the water in Cork Harbour. Twenty-six dinghies have registered to race Class 1 in the June League. After seven races, the club’s Laser ‘veteran, David O’Connell, took over the…