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Wednesday 1900hrs: When Pete Smyth and his weary and calm-plagued crew with the Ker 46 Searcher finally finished the SSE Renewables Round Ireland Race at 15:32 this (Wednesday) afternoon, it was intriguing to note that they'd sailed 63 miles less…

Mystic Meg will shortly retire to the Wicklow hills, satisfied with her 2024 Round Ireland Race predictions. Once the weather pattern emerged, it was not a hard task, but the size of the leads over the next boats at the…

Marine Minister Charlie McConalogue, T.D., held a crucial meeting with representatives from the fishing industry on Tuesday evening, June 25th. The discussions centred around the upcoming 2025 fishing opportunity negotiations and were reported to be 'quite productive'. The gathering was…

A British aviation and aerospace company has created an Irish subsidiary to supply two King Air aircraft for the new Irish Coast Guard contract. 2Excel Aviation has formed 2Excel Ireland to provide fixed-wing Coast Guard Services for Bristow Ireland. This…

A 64 metre superyacht has berthed recently in Cork’s Kinsale marina. The vessel named Scout was designed by Jonny Horsfield’s H2 Yacht Design. Horsfield, who graduated from Coventry University after studying car design, established his yacht design company in 1994.…

The Cabinet has approved Uisce Éireann’s multi-billion euro plan to extract water from the river Shannon to supply Dublin, the east and midlands region. The project, which aroused some local environmental opposition when first flagged by Uisce Éireann some years…

Every time I hear the beginnings of Sinatra singing The Summer Wind, it's immediately accompanied by personal visions of classic American-designed yachts by Sparkman & Stephens, John Alden, PhilipRhodes or - best of all - Jim McCurdy, sailing serenely in…

A new but delayed £70 million Liverpool Ferry Terminal opened its doors for the first time to passengers yesterday, reports Manx Radio, following the arrival from Douglas of the fast-craft Manannan. The inaugural commercial call of the Isle of Man…

Wednesday 1230 hrs: The meteorological community is in a state of excitement. With climate change and weird weather generally, we’d thought that old-fashioned clearcut low pressure areas heading slightly north of east across the Atlantic were a thing of the…

We've always believed thet all truly good works are best done by stealth, and so it has proved. On Friday night (June 21st, MadMidsummmer's Day) we heard a whisper that there'd been movement on the entombed Moonduster in Trondheim in…

Hong Kong businessman Karl Kwok has entered the TP52 Beau Geste into the 2024 Maples Group IRC European championships at the Royal Irish Yacht Club on Dublin Bay this September. The entry is one of the first of the expected…

Three creative artists from Kerry have produced a special sand art collage on Magherabeg Cut on the shores of Brandon Bay to mark World Sand Dune Day coming this Saturday 29 June. Silke Michels, Zoë Ui Fhaolain Green and Emer…

Larne RNLI rescued four kayakers on Monday afternoon (24 June) after they got pushed out to sea by an offshore wind off Browns Bay and started to drift. The volunteer crew were requested to launch their inshore lifeboat at 2.12pm…

Portaferry RNLI’s pagers sounded on Sunday afternoon (23 June) after Belfast Coastguard received an ermergency position indication radio beacon (EPIRB) alert close to Portavogie. The inshore lifeboat launched at 1.05pm amid good conditions on Northern Ireland’s Co Down coast, with…

Tuesday (Day 4) 1930hrs: Eric de Turckheim’s Teasing Machine surprised no one by taking the monohull line honours in the SSE Renewables Round Ireland Yacht Race at 1921 in Wicklow on Tuesday evening (25 June), writes WM Nixon. Yet a…

The North Channel Race is a well established offshore event on the Clyde Cruising Club racing calendar, and it was great to see such strong support from the RC35 fleet, writes Jim Dervin. After an 8pm start off Inverkip Marina…