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14th April 2025
Keep your boat clean and ready with the innovative EirGlide drive-up dock. Modular, maintenance-free, and crafted in Ireland to suit all RIBs, powerboats, and sports boats
Keep your boat clean and ready with the innovative EirGlide drive-up dock. Modular, maintenance-free, and crafted in Ireland to suit all RIBs, powerboats, and sports boats

Summer is on the way, and the team at MarineServices.ie is ready to help you! Marine Services is the commercial arm of the Irish National Sailing and Powerboat School, which is well known for its services to the TV and Film Industry. However, as a result of its solutions, Marine Services is also a stockist of many useful marine products for the leisure boater.

MarineServices.ie We’re stocked to help you! New supplies arrive for the 2025 seasonMarineServices.ie We’re stocked to help you! New supplies arrive for the 2025 season

ePropulsion

As you may well be aware from the conversion to the Elan 36, Marine Services stocks the popular Spirit 1.0 and eLite engine from ePropulsion; these little engines are perfect for tenders on yachts and as auxiliary engines on small keelboats and cruising dinghies. Forget all the hassle of petrol engines including oil leaks, petrol leaks and unreliability, we have an electric solution for you! Prices start from as little as €1,250 inc VAT

Discover the ePropulsion Spirit 1.0 and eLite engines! Reliable, clean, and perfect for tenders or small sailboats. Prices start from €1,250 inc VAT. Upgrade your boating experience today!Discover the ePropulsion Spirit 1.0 and eLite engines! Reliable, clean, and perfect for tenders or small sailboats. Prices start from €1,250 inc VAT. Upgrade your boating experience today!

Selva Outboards

If you prefer combustion enginees, we have a large stock of Selva Outboards. We offer nationwide, onsite servicing, including computer diagnostics of the entire Selva and Yamaha range. These engines are developed by Yamaha and supplied from Selva HQ in Italy.

The Dorado XS outboard from Selva The Dorado XS outboard from Selva 

For recreational users, these engines boast our market-leading 5-year warranty and are available with a sport tune from the factory, giving 2-stroke performance from a 4-stroke engine.

For commercial users of particular interest in fishing vessels, we can de-tune the engines from the factory – with the XS range giving higher torque for a lower KW rating. Keeping your licence fees lower.

Airfloat modular pontoon system

Looking to keep your boat out of the water and clean, ready for use all the time? Did you know Marine Services partially owns the Airfloat modular pontoon system?

For 2025, we have the new EirGlide system for drive-up docks suitable for any RIB, powerboat, or sports boat. As our system is modular, we can adapt it to the needs of your boat! Our solution is designed, manufactured, and supplied in Ireland and is maintenance-free! If you are looking for a truly long-lasting solution, don’t hesitate to get in touch!

A 6.5 m RIB on an Eirglide modular pontoon system installed in Dun Laoghaire by Marine ServicesA 6.5 m RIB on an Eirglide modular pontoon system installed in Dun Laoghaire by Marine Services

For any enquiries, please contact [email protected]

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The Irish National Sailing and Powerboat School is based on Dun Laoghaire's West Pier on Dublin Bay and in the heart of Ireland's marine leisure capital.

Whether you are looking at beginners start sailing course, a junior course or something more advanced in yacht racing, the INSS prides itself in being able to provide it as Ireland's largest sailing school.

Since its establishment in 1978, INSS says it has provided sailing and powerboat training to approximately 170,000 trainees. The school has a team of full-time instructors and they operate all year round. Lead by the father and son team of Alistair and Kenneth Rumball, the school has a great passion for the sport of sailing and boating and it enjoys nothing more than introducing it to beginners for the first time. 

Programmes include:

  • Shorebased Courses, including VHF, First Aid, Navigation
  • Powerboat Courses
  • Junior Sailing
  • Schools and College Sailing
  • Adult Dinghy and Yacht Training
  • Corporate Sailing & Events

History of the INSS

Set up by Alistair Rumball in 1978, the sailing school had very humble beginnings, with the original clubhouse situated on the first floor of what is now a charity shop on Dun Laoghaire's main street. Through the late 1970s and 1980s, the business began to establish a foothold, and Alistair's late brother Arthur set up the chandler Viking Marine during this period, which he ran until selling on to its present owners in 1999.

In 1991, the Irish National Sailing School relocated to its current premises at the foot of the West Pier. Throughout the 1990s the business continued to build on its reputation and became the training institution of choice for budding sailors. The 2000s saw the business break barriers - firstly by introducing more people to the water than any other organisation, and secondly pioneering low-cost course fees, thereby rubbishing the assertion that sailing is an expensive sport.