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Two wins from two races sailed today at the Flying Fifteen British Isles Championships 2024 at Strangford Lough Yacht Club for Graham Vials and Chris Turner in Floaty McFloatface moves the Derwent Reservoir and Lyme Regis Sailing Club pair to…

With only one race on Wednesday, in order to achieve the advertised programme, Howard Steavenson event PRO called for three races (in a wind varying from 4 to 10 knots) for the Squib fleet today at the UK British National…

Neither Paul O'Higgins's JPK 10.80 Rockabill VI or Chris Power-Smith's J122 Aurelia were on the DBSC race track last night as both will race Round Ireland on Saturday. Still, Rockabill VI remains four points clear at the top of the Dublin Bay…

Northern Ireland’s sailing community handed in an unprecedented 4,000 expired marine flares at disposal events held at Portrush Yacht Club, Bangor Marina and Lough Erne Yacht on Saturday 15 June. As previously reported on Afloat.ie, RYA Northern Ireland organised these…

The Marine Institute welcomes 22 undergraduate students this month to its facilities in Oranmore, Co Galway and Newport, Co Mayo as part of the 2024 Summer Bursary Scholarship Programme. The bursary scheme enables students to gain valuable practical experience and…

Twenty-four dinghies are entered in Monkstown Bay Sailing Club’s Class 1 dinghies June League. Racing in Cork Harbour is on Tuesdays and Fridays. The 505 crew of Brian Jones and Gary Frost are leading the class after five races, with…

Taoiseach Simon Harris and Tánaiste Micheál Martin, alongside Waterways Ireland, were in Clones on Wednesday (19 June) to officially open Phase 2 of the Ulster Canal redevelopment project, following a more than €20 million investment. The redevelopment project was carried…

Owen O’Connell leads Cove Sailing Club’s Wednesday night Dinghy League, racing his TR3. He is on 10 points, ahead of Rankin No.12, sailed by Maurice and Frances Kidney, on 12. David Radley is third on 15. Seventeen boats have raced…

The Irish South & West Fish Producers Organisation based in Castletownbere, West Cork, has called on the Minister for the Marine to meet with it to discuss a Liquidity Scheme to assist the struggling inshore sector and ensure its very…

They may call it the Crosshaven Traditional Boat Weekend, but if it hadn’t been for the presence of the Cornish lugger Barnabas, the traditional boats would have been on the sidelines in face of the impact of classic timber yachts…

The Irish Marine Federation (IMF) attended the European Boating Industry (EBI) General Assembly in Barcelona earlier this month. Hosted by the Spanish member, Asociación Nacional de Empresas Nauticas (ANEN), in collaboration with the Marina Port Vell, the Port of Barcelona…

The importance of aquaculture in providing a sustainable food supply was highlighted by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation’s (FAO) director general Dr Qu Dongyu on a recent visit to south Galway bay. Speaking at Kellys’ Oyster farm, Dr Dongyu…

The economic gap between the north and west of Ireland and the rest of the State is growing, with underinvestment in infrastructure such as ports, a conference has heard. The challenges facing rural and island communities were discussed at the…

The past weekend’s weather experience of “Four Seasons In A Day” may have disrupted the sailing programme for the Crosshaven Traditional Boat Weekend, but some interesting boats had made their way to the venue beforehand, and classic yacht connoisseurs had…

Two young Irish sailors are set to play leading parts in this year’s running of the biennial Newport to Bermuda Race. Luke Galvin and Eoin McKeon - both ‘graduates’ of the Irish National Sailing School in Dun Laoghaire – will compete…

24 Water Wags turned out for the AIB DBSC race on Wednesday evening  June 19th at Dun Laoghaire.  Race Officer Tadgh Donnelly set a three round windward leeward course with a final fourth beat to finish at the weather mark…