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Mayo Sailing Club's Joan Mulloy has signed up for the 2024 Double Handed World Offshore Championships in September. That adds to a busy sailing schedule as she is also looking forward to the next stage of 'The Famous Project' in…

An Irish crew onboard the Volvo 70 Tschuss 2 has broken Sweden's Gotland Runt Offshore Race speed record in what is s the world's largest annual ocean race. Ireland's Johnny Mordaunt, Simon Johnson, Cian Guilfoyle and Sonia Zugel were onboard the boat…

Our header photo really says it all. It was 2011 when Rives Potts' now four times Bermuda Race winner Carina rounded the Fastnet Rock in conditions a whole world away from the murky early morning eleven hours earlier, when George…

INSS ‘graduates’ Luke Galvin and Eoin McKeon recorded strong performances in the 53rd running of the biennial Newport Bermuda Race which finished earlier this week. Bowman on OC86, a Maxz86, Luke was second across the finish line in the early…

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…

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…

162 boats set sail from Newport, racing towards the Gulf Stream and kicking off the 53rd Newport Bermuda Race. For this first time in its 118-year history, the American race set sail from Fort Adams in Newport. As Afloat reported…

Ireland’s Joan Mulloy and Pamela Lee were on hand alongside their teammates in The Famous Project to see the launch of their Maxi trimaran IDEC SPORT in front of the Multiplast shipyard in Vannes, France on Friday (31 May). After…

The Transat CIC, the legendary solo race across the North Atlantic, commenced on Sunday with 48 sailors setting sail from Lorient, Brittany towards New York. Blessed with sunny skies, cumulus clouds, and a decent 10-15kts of Westerly wind, the sailors…

The Famous Project crew have completed on their first all-female ocean passage across the Atlantic on their MOD70 The Famous Project Limosa. The seven-strong crew — which included Ireland’s own Joan Mulloy — arrived in Portimao, Portugal from Antigua on…

Maiden has won the McIntyre Ocean Globe Race, taking first in IRC handicap rankings against a 14-strong fleet of very experienced and committed sailors. And Maiden’s sailors have also been written into the history books as the first ever all-women…

With the RORC’s new Griffin Project for training young sailors recently launched in a blaze of publicity, there have been the usual demands that something similar should be delivered for Ireland. But Sailing on Saturday would suggest that, over the…

The French legend Pen Duick VI FR (14), skippered by the indomitable Marie Tabarly, has taken provisional line honours in the final leg of the inaugural McIntyre Ocean Globe Race – and in the days ahead could potentially win the…

The International Association of Cape Horners (IACH) has announced that nominations for the 2024 Cape Horn Hall of Fame Awards are now open. The awards aim to honour the most accomplished sailors who have sailed around the challenging Cape Horn,…

Fresh from their third-place finish in the RORC Caribbean 600’s multihull class and multiple training laps around the island of Antigua itself, the seven-strong The Famous Project crew — which includes Ireland’s own Pamela Lee and Joan Mulloy — have…

The ocean-isolated island group of Bermuda, know to the cognoscenti as The Onion Patch, has the same special attraction for the American cruiser-racer sailors of New England as the distant island of Hy Brasil had in ancient times for voyaging…