Irish Marine Federation
The Grand Canal around Tullamore is expected to be busy with boat traffic between the 16th and 24th of August because of the Tullamore Fleadh. Masters and owners of craft on the inland waterway are reminded of their responsibility to…
The Fireball Europeans got under way today with two races in La Rochelle, and seven Irish boats are sailing among the 88-boat fleet. Results have only been posted for one race so far, and with ten teams caught out on…
The 52-boat Figaro fleet left Dingle on Sunday bound for Dieppe via the Fastnet, with a start under the cliffs in a strong south-westerly giving the fleet an early upwind workout. The fleet is now approaching Lands End, still surfing…
Howth sailor Tom Fitzpatrick took the latest leg of the Match Racing Tour of Ireland this weekend, pipping home sailor John Sheehy in the final of the Helly Hansen Leinster Match Racing Open. The event, staged in Dun Laoghaire's Royal…
It looks like an Indian summer (kind of...) has come our way so we can advantage of these mild days and enjoy what’s going on around the country. The Achill Yawls are still out in all their glory in Co.…
Plain sailing for a good turnout at Howth Yacht Club for the East Coast Championships yesterday (16th August 2009) in fresh enough easterly wind, where Xebec took Class 2 IRC, Pepperbox Class 2 Echo, Alliance Class 3 IRC and Turnabout…
The secret of good navigation is to steer around the rocks, a lesson learnt this year by some of the 1000 competitors in Sweden's Tjörn Runt. The event is the annual long distance sailing competition that takes place around the…
Royal Cork Optimist Sailor Cian Byrne did the business on the final day of the UK Optimist Junior Nationals in Largs yesterday writes Tom Crosbie. Cian's three third places on day 6 of the 12 race series were enough to…
Westerly winds gusting to 25 knots brought some of the best sailing conditions of the season to Dublin Bay on Saturday. With only six races left to the end of the DBSC 2009 season points are adding up across the…
While the previous Rolex Fastnet Race is remembered for the course record time being demolished, the only record broken in this year's running of the Royal Ocean Racing Club's biennial 608 nautical-mile classic was one relating to competitor patience, as…
The fourth leg of this year’s Solitaire du Figaro sets off from Dingle at noon local time tomorrow, at 511 miles the longest and the last of the series, and another classic mix of coastal and offshore sailing. After nearly…
HOWTH YACHT CLUB EAST COAST CHAMPIONSHIPS (O'ALL) 16/08/2009 Class 2 IRC: 1, Xebec T Giles HYC (4.00); 2, Dux A Gore-Grimes HYC (9.00); 3, Sunburn I Byrne HYC (10.00); 4, Toughnut D Skehan HYC (15.00); 5, Pepperbox C & M…
We now know that Jacques Cousteau wasn't quite accurate when he called the the sea the 'silent world', but to be fair to the French underwater explorer, that was before advances in acoustic technology allowed us listen in to the…
Typically the Rolex Fastnet Race is all but concluded by the Friday morning, five days after the start. But by this morning, only around one third of the fleet have reached the finish off Plymouth, for the Royal Ocean Racing…
Dun Laoghaire Harbour Company is to open the East Pier Battery to the public later this month as part of a plan to develop the battery as a major cultural and heirtage centre.
A full tide and light southerly winds gently swept Shannagh (S.Gill/P.MacDiarmada) to a win in tonight's Dublin Bay Sailing Club Ruffian race. Second in the Ruffian race was Larry Power's Paramour. The combined cruiser and one design classes headed south…
