Irish Sailing and Yacht Club News. Regattas, Race Reports & Results
Notice of Race Now Available for Fifth Edition of France’s Drheam Cup in 2024
12th October 2023 Sailing Events
The Notice of Race is now available for the fifth edition of the Drheam Cup, which will take place from 11-21 July 2024. As previously reported on Afloat.ie, the competition’s three courses will be identical to the previous edition’s, between…
Large-Scale Construction Work Starts at Rosslare Europort for Post-Brexit Checks
12th October 2023 Rosslare Europort
New infrastructure works at Rosslare Europort have started so to enable handling post-Brexit checks on goods in bound to the country from those outside of the EU. The works at the strategically located port in Co. Wexford will as RTE…
Irish Marine Scientist Appointed New Chair of ICES Advisory Committee
12th October 2023 Marine Science
Dr Colm Lordan, an Irish marine scientist with over 25 years of experience at the Marine Institute and involvement with the International Council for Exploration of the Sea (ICES) since 1993, has been appointed as the new Chair of the…
Deepest Container Port in Scotland, Greenock (Clydeport) Welcomes Largest Ever Container Vessel
12th October 2023 Ports & Shipping
The deepest container ship terminal in Scotland, at the Port of Greenock (Clydeport) has welcomed the largest container vessel ever to berth at the facility. The port which recently won a Green champion award, hosted the 300m long MSC Magnum…
Dublin Port Company has received the final grant of planning permission for its innovative Liffey-Tolka Project. The project will establish a new and transformative public space featuring a dedicated 1.4km cycle and pedestrian path connecting the River Liffey with the…
In the 1250-mile Trans-Tasman Sydney-Auckland Race, which started last Saturday, the "Irish boat", Mike Martin's TP 52 Frantic (ex-Eamonn Conneelly's Patches, with Clontarf's Trevor Smyth on the strength) is looking good. Four of the five competitors elected to go to…
Consortium Encourages UK Businesses to Engage in £1.6 Billion Contract for RFA Supply Ships
12th October 2023 Shipyards
Shipyard Harland & Wolff along with Navantia UK and BMT which formed the consortium, Team Resolute, have encouraged businesses in the United Kingdom, in particular SMEs, to get involved in the £1.6 billion contract from the UK Ministry of Defence…
Royal Irish's Saskia Tidey Picked for Team GB as Ten Sailors Revealed as First Athletes for Paris 2024
11th October 2023 Royal Irish Yacht Club
Dun Laoghaire Harbour's Saskia Tidey will make her third Olympic Games appearance in 2024 after being named as one of ten sailors for Team GB. Returning for another tilt at Olympic glory is Saskia Tidey, who, with two previous Olympic…
Digital Innovation Project Could "Revolutionise" Coastal Tourism - Western Development Commission
11th October 2023 Aquatic Tourism
Coastal tourism could be “revolutionised” by a new EU-funded project to improve the digital capabilities of the blue economy on the Atlantic seaboard, the Western Development Commission (WDC) says. The WDC has announced details of the Digital Innovation in the…
Promoted
At BJ Marine, we know the continued popularity of boating on Ireland’s inland waterways and the exceptional cruising grounds available to us, writes BJ's General Manager James Kirwan. We found that many major boat manufacturers had evolved their motorboat designs to…
Ireland Reaffirms Pledge to Protect 30 Per Cent of Marine Areas By 2030
11th October 2023 Marine Planning
Ireland has reaffirmed a pledge to protect 30 per cent of Ireland’s marine areas by 2030. Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien reaffirmed the original commitment made by Minister of State for Heritage Malcolm Noonan at a seminar involving the European…
Sligo Bay RNLI Catch a Big One as Popular Annual Seafood Night Raises More Than €6,500
11th October 2023 RNLI Lifeboats
The volunteer crew of Sligo Bay RNLI served up another fish supper last Friday (6 October) to 200 guests at The Strand Bar in Strandhill. The seafood night raised an amazing €6,587, all of which will go towards training and…
BirdWatch Ireland has welcomed the announcement of a new scheme for the protection and conservation of breeding waders. €30 million has been set aside for the Breeding Wader EIP (European Innovation Partnership), according to the Minister of State for Heritage…
The Norwegian Star, the largest-ever cruise ship to drop anchor in Lough Foyle, arrived spectacularly at 7am, marking the end of the 2023 cruise season for Foyle Port. The ship has a gross tonnage of 91,740 and a length of…
Bremore Ireland Port has unveiled its vision for what it says “will become the first new deepwater port development since the foundation of the Irish State.” The ‘Vision for Bremore Ireland Port’ developed by Henning Larsen,’ a leading global architecture…
Dublin Port Company Commits to Sustainable Port City Development with Signing of Agenda 2030 by AIVP
11th October 2023 Dublin Port
Dublin Port Company (DPC)has announced that it has officially signed the Agenda 2030 by AIVP (International Association of Ports and Cities). DPC Chief Executive Barry O’Connell was joined at Dublin Port’s Substation today by José Sanchez, Director of the Agenda…
The Late Liam Shanahan Snr Exemplified Modern Ireland’s Success Ashore And Afloat
11th October 2023 National YC
Liam Shanahan Senr was widely known in the sailing community as a determined offshore racing and cruising owner-skipper and a pillar of the National Yacht Club in Dun Laoghaire, both as a longtime Club Trustee and a racing and sea-going…
Renewables Will Be Fast-Tracked Under British Labour Government, Party Pledges
11th October 2023 Power From the Sea
The British Labour Party has promised to fast-track infrastructure such as wind turbines, pylons and solar farms through the planning system and to protect developers from legal challenges. The Labour Party has promised British voters it will pledge to protect…
Mayo Mayhem Attracts Top Names for Ireland's Biggest Windsurfing Competition
11th October 2023 Surfing
Mayo Mayhem, Ireland's biggest windsurfing competition, was held last Friday and Saturday on Elly Beach Belmullet Co Mayo. This year, the Mayhem event achieved a ranked two-star event on the International Windsurfing Tour. Elly Beach was filled with colour as…
After their win in the Maxi A World Championships in Porto Cervo, Italy in September, a crew with some of Ireland's top superyacht racing talent onboard Galateia took third overall in the MAA division at Les Voiles de St. Tropez Regatta…