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Crossing the finish line off Royan at 14:06:20 hrs this afternoon, Ireland’s Tom Dolan (Smurfit Kappa-Kingspan) won the 515 nautical miles of Stage 2 of the 55th La Solitaire Figaro Paprec, which started from Gijón, NW Spain, on Sunday afternoon.…

Sailors with Blessington Sailing Club (SC) and Galway City Sailing Club (GCSC) won the cruiser and dinghy classes in this year’s Cong-Galway race. Conal and Aoibheann McGuire of Blessington SC led the cruiser fleet in their Hawk 20, finishing in…

The Blue Shark, a boat owned by Kevin O’Brien from Galway’s Claddagh, won the “best dressed boat” at this year’s “Blessing of the Bay” in Galway city. The annual blessing in the Claddagh on the river Corrib estuary extends to…

Ireland’s Tom Dolan remains firmly on course to win the second stage of La Solitaire du Figaro Paprec, the 515 miles leg from Gijón to Royan. With just 30 miles to go to the finish line at 0930hrs local time…

The latest Irish Maritime Development Office (IMDO) Unitised Traffic Report for Q1 and Q2 of 2024 has been published with an Executive Summary below. The IMDO operates as part of the Marine Institute and is Ireland’s national dedicated development, promotional,…

Reigning Irish Cruiser Racing Association (ICRA) Boat of the Year (IRC), David and James Dwyer's all-beating Swuzzlebubble looks on target to retain the cruiser-racer accolade after the latest update on the Boat of the Year Award scoreboard on September 3rd. …

The Royal St George Yacht Club in Dun Laoghaire will be hosting the fourth Squib Championship of the season over the weekend of 7-8 September. Twenty-one entries have been received from Lough Derg YC, Royal North of Ireland YC, Killyleagh…

Enniskillen RNLI will be throwing open the doors of its inshore lifeboat station with an open day this Saturday 7 September. Visitors will have an opportunity to explore the lifeboat station, which was officially opened in 2023. During the event,…

A row has emerged over the hosting of the historic Liffey Swim, with two separate events scheduled for this month. According to RTÉ News, Leinster Open Sea have accused Swim Ireland, the sport’s national governing body, of trying to take…

Rain clouds coming off the mountains to the north of Barcelona produced some challenging and dynamic conditions with enormous shifts in the wind on day one of the Louis Vuitton Cup’s second round robin — the stage of the Challenger…

With a clear lead of over five nautical miles on a course which should now be a straight line to the La Solitaire du Figaro finish off Royan, Ireland’s Tom Dolan (Smurfit Kappa-Kingspan) will be hoping above all else that…

Kinsale Yacht Club is on standby for the arrival of 62 International Dragon Teams, representing 14 countries and four continents from across the globe, to compete in the 80th Dragon Gold Cup, which gets underway with a practice race on…

What a TREMENDOUS event that just was! Three days of racing in a combination of windward/leeward and round-the-can courses makes for happy sailors. The triangles elicited some debate with the supertight first reaches necessitating a call between a running kite…

Here at UK Sailmakers Ireland, we are expanding rapidly to handle our increasing workload. We have hired two more staff members, bringing our total to eight. After a busy summer, we are pleased to report that we were up to…

Plans to redevelop and enhance Belfast Harbour’s cruise and offshore renewable energy facilities have been launched by the port. The harbour on Belfast Lough has described a vision of making the city a hub for future offshore wind development, not…

Two Irish crews were among the 41 entries for the UK 420 National Championships at Dale Yacht Club in southwest Wales. Cora McNaughton and Sean Cronin from Blessington SC and Malahide SC, and Daniel Copthorne and Matt Mapplebeck from Schull…

Over 200,000 lives at sea have been saved in the past ten years by a migrant rescue service set up by a Malta-based business couple ten years ago. The Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) has expanded rescue work from the…

It was a very poignant morning out at Mornington beach last Wednesday (August 28th) as the Drogheda Port Company hosted a unique event to unveil the 2024 port art commission. The annual commission on a maritime theme is normally very…

In North Wales, construction work has finally started on a border control post at the Port of Holyhead, which will carry out post-Brexit checks on goods from the Republic of Ireland. The ferry port, which is owned by Stena Line…

The sixth RS Aero World Championships concluded on Friday (August 30th) at Hayling Island Sailing Club (HISC), UK. 175 entries representing 18 countries, including a four-strong team from Ireland, competed in the 12 races over five days. The event, expertly…