Afloat – Ireland's Sailing and Boating Magazine
The third Waterways Ireland Classic Boat regatta attracted more than a hundred boats to Lough Derg Yacht Club at Dromineer for the weekend of September 13th-14th. Upwards of 72 boats had been entered for the six designated racing classes –…
Kinsale hosted the annual Irish South Coast Dragon Championship sponsored by Dragon sailor and local chandler James Matthews last weekend seeing some very close racing in a variety of light breezes.
A legal notice published in the Irish Times today advises that a petition for the winding up of Premier Marine and Leisure limited by the High Court was presented to the High court by the Collector General on September 9th.
Irish renewable engineering firm OpenHydro has successfully installed its new 'open-centre' design tidal turbines on the sea-bed at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney, Scotland. The turbines, each six metres in diameter, have been specially designed with an open…
"She was probably the only man-made object that I came across that had a personality, had a soul." That's how Capt Tom McCarthy, a former skipper of the Asgard II, described Ireland's only sail training vessel. His was just one…
Ireland has always punched well above its weight on the Sail Training circuit. The reasons for this were the qualities of Asgard II and its crew rather than Ireland's reputation as a nation of seafarers. It would be a great…
Nicholas 'Nin' O'Leary added another piece of silverware to the O'Leary family trophy room last weekend, taking the national match-racing championships with only one loss out of 11 races sailed. The event was sailed in the ISA's Sailfleet J80s.
Incumbent and current All-Ireland Sailing Champion Stefan Hyde was deposed as J24 national champion over the weekend, when the Carrickfergus crew of Taz took the J24 National Championship title at Carlingford Lough.
While Ireland's slalom windsurfers have already wrapped up their season, the wave-sailors are just kicking off theirs, hooking in for a season of gales and big winter swells for some beachfront action. Round two took place last weekend, on Achill…
Poolbeg Yacht and Boat Club has announced it is to carry out an inquiry in to the death of a crewman that occurred during its annual Sean Whiston race at the weekend.
A 46 year-old Dublin yachtsman died yesterday morning following an accident on a coastal passage from Wicklow to Poolbeg Yacht and Boat Club in Dublin city, the Coastguard has confirmed.
There have been further calls from around the country to echo yesterday's Irish Marine Federation (IMF) suggestion that the Jeanie Johnston replace Asgard II as a sail training ship, if only on a temporary basis. In a number of articles…
Q: Do I need to be able to swim?A: No it is not necessary to be able to swim but it may make you feel more comfortable while at sea if you can.
An organisation representing marine trade interests has called on Government to approach the owners of Ireland's two other Tall ships to fill the role of Asgard. The state's sole sail training brigantine sank off the French coast yesterday leaving the…
The Irish Government and French authorities are piecing together the last hours of the state owned Asgard II after she sank en route to La Rochelle yesterday. Although she sank in deep water 20 miles off the French coast but…
Volvo race headquarters confirmed this afternoon that the Limerick sailor Ger O'Rourke will sail the second Irish VOR boat under the Dutch flag and it will be the eighth entry into the round the world race.
Team Delta Lloyd (ex ABN AMRO ONE) departed Cobh (14:20 Thursday.) Ger O'Rourke helmed her out past Roches point and into the Atlantic. The boat flew the RWYC of Ireland ensign.
There is mounting speculation over what led to the loss of the Asgard II in the Bay of Biscay early this morning.
Ireland's most famous sail training vessel, the Asgard II, has sunk off the coast of France. The five crew and 20 trainees on board abandoned ship early this morning after issuing distress calls last night. It is not yet know…
Ger O'Rourke's Volvo 70 limped back to dock in Cork last night to effect repairs on hydraulic systems. The first-generation Volvo Ocean Race boat was escorted into the Haulbowline naval base just after 8pm last night by a local RIB.
