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Further tributes have been paid to marine scientist, sailor and classic boat activist Padraic de Bhaldraithe, who has died aged 77. As The Sunday Independent reports, it was among the rock pools and on the deck of Galway Hookers, still…

The largest Galway Hooker ever built is due to be donated to the Mayor of Galway Cllr Peter Keane and Bádoirí an Cladaigh in the Claddagh Basin on Saturday (July 20). The classic boat building and training group will maintain…

The 1963 classic S&S 43 Clarion of Wight, well-known in Ireland for her offshore racing successes and long-distance cruises (including the Arctic) while under the ownership of Rory O'Hanlon of Dun Laoghaire in the early 1970s, is in a bad way.…

President Michael D Higgins has led the tributes to the late Padraic de Bhalraithe, "The Boatman of Barna", whose natural talents as a teacher and mentor went far beyond the classrooms of Galway and Connemara. These talents enabled him to…

The life and times of the Asgard yacht, from its revolutionary history to its restoration, are the themes of a talk by National Museum of Ireland (NMI) curator Sandra Heise this week. Entitled “Asgard: From Gun-Running to Recent Conservation”, the…

The 25ft community-built Shannon hooker Sally O'Keeffe of Querrin and Kilrush in County Clare has successfully completed three long open sea passages to join the huge traditional fleets taking part in the current Festivals of Sail & the Sea at…

The Hook Sub-Aqua Club, based in the Hook Peninsula 20 miles south of New Ross, Co.Wexford, has laid a memorial plaque on the wreck of the SS.Lismore, which sank off Hook Head on July 11, 1924. As already reported by…

Afloat.ie regrets to record the death of Padraic de Bhaldraithe of Barna, Co Galway. A leading figure for decades in the revival of the special traditional sailing and rowing boats of Connemara and their use in Galway Bay, he had…

Even by the antique standards of many local one design classes in Ireland, the 125th (Quasquicentennial) Celebrations last year of the 1898-founded jackyard-topsail-setting Howth 17s were quite something, with the class's Event Captain Dave O'Shea seeing through a busy and…

The restored ship’s cabin, where Irish polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton spent his last hours, has been delivered to the Kildare museum, which is named after him. The cabin from The Quest, which was anchored off south Georgia when he…

Support for Gaza where the death toll of Palestinians has surpassed 38,100 will be highlighted by the south Galway community of Kinvara during next month’s Cruinniú na mBád regatta. Kinvara has a long record of supporting the Palestinian people, and…

Re-building the classic Mylne-designed Dublin Bay 24 Zephyra at The Apprenticeshop in Maine has been so educationally rewarding that they took five years to do the job. This was in order to allow as manytrainees as possible to be involved…

A commemoration service will be held on Sunday in the Memorial Garden at the County Wexford fishing village of Kilmore Quay to recall the sinking of the City of Cork Steam Packet Company's ship, Lismore, off Hook Head a hundred…

The Galway Hooker Sailing Club is going to trailer three traditional Hookers to Brest aboard Brittany Ferries on Wednesday Week on their way to "make Waves at Brest Maritime Festival" which, the club says, "marks a significant milestone for us,…

It's seventeen years since Afloat.ie stumbled upon the forgotten Dublin Bay 24 Zephyra out the back of a castle in Mayo while walking the dog. The undergrowth around the Alfred Mylne-designed classic was breaking through the tiles and concrete at…

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