Afloat – Ireland's Sailing and Boating Magazine
After five races sailed at the Jura Scottish Series 2024 on Loch Fyne, John Stamp's Corby 33 Jacob VII leads a 13-boat IRC 1 fleet from a strong challenge from J109 designs that hold the next three positions overall. Jacob…
Lambay Race Magic Takes The Day For Lough Ree SB20 at Wave Regatta (Vid Here!)
26th May 2024 Wave Regatta
The long-forecast serious rain didn't reach the Wave Regatta venue at Howth until 2200hrs yesterday (Saturday 25th May), and even then, most of the power had gone out after a day during which there'd been about twice as much sunshine…
Ireland pocketed two medals and progressed to five A Finals on day two of racing in Lucerne, Switzerland, at rowing's World Cup II. Siobhán McCrohan takes gold in the Lightweight Women's Single, and Tiarnán O'Donnell opens his international career with…
National Champions Lead Flying Fifteen Western Championships in Connemara
25th May 2024 Flying Fifteen
National Champions Niall and Ronan O'Briain of Flying Fifteen Chonamara lead the 15-boat Flying Fifteen Western Championships after two races sailed in overcast and cool conditions with intermittent rain off the Galway coast. The National Yacht Club's Shane McCarthy and…
Bundoran Lifeboat Joins Emergency Response to Boater in Distress Off Mullaghmore
25th May 2024 RNLI Lifeboats
Bundoran RNLI’s volunteers were called on Saturday morning (25 May) to assist in a water rescue off Mullaghmore in Co Sligo. It was reported that a casualty had fallen from a boat and was struggling in the water. The alarm…
Royal St. George Yacht Club's J122 Aurelia Wins Kinsale's Inistearaght Race
25th May 2024 Inistearaght Race
Finishing in a sub-one-day elapsed time frame, Royal St. George Yacht Club's Chris Power Smith, on board his J122 Aurelia, won line honours and IRC victory on Saturday in Kinsale Yacht Club's eight-boat offshore Inistearaght Race. Having won line honours…
Dublin Bay Sailing Club's fifth AIB Saturday race of the 2024 season was sailed on May 25th in blustery south easterly winds on a sunny Dublin Bay. There were several reasons that turnouts were down outside of this afternoon's European…
Elmside Neighbours Lead 'George Invitational' Team Racing Championship at Dun Laoghaire Harbour
25th May 2024 Team Racing
Elmside Neighbours lead the 'George Invitational' Team Racing Championship after a colourful ten rounds sailed at Dun Laoghaire Harbour this afternoon. Set against the backdrop of the home of Team Racing in Dun Laoghaire, the Royal St George Yacht Club…
A new cruise venture in Galway Bay, rowing training and seaweed and shellfish gathering are among marine activities profiled in a new maritime TV series on Irish language television station TG4. The series Pobal Cois Fharraige profiles the stretch of…
The GP14 O'Tiarnaigh Challenge at Mullingar Sailing Club proved to be a thrilling event with 30 entries and 29 boats competing on the start line. The competition served as excellent preparation for the upcoming World Championships in Pla Heli in…
NY-Vendee Fleet Competes in Vendee Liberty Exhibition Speed Trials on Upper New York Harbour
25th May 2024 Vendee Globe
The wind gods only partially delivered for the NY-Vendee fleet competing in the Vendee Liberty exhibition speed trials on upper New York Harbour on Friday with puffs of breeze deciding the fortunes of the fleet. Battling north and south winds…
Support Urged For #Fight4Fishing Campaign After Killybegs Pre-Election Hustings
25th May 2024 Fishing
A new campaign to highlight issues affecting the fishing industry in the run-up to the local and European elections has been initiated in Donegal. The #Fight4Fishing pre-election campaign was launched at a “hustings” in Killybegs to hear the views of…
Ireland’s Tom Dolan and his French co-skipper Paul Morvan this morning finished a gruelling 740 miles long offshore race for the Trophée Banque Populaire Grand Ouest in seventh place from a star-studded field containing some of the most successful French…
It’ll Take a Seismic Kinetic Event for Ireland to Take National Security Seriously - Senator Gerard Craughwell
25th May 2024 Navy
Only one of Ireland’s naval fleet is operational because there are no crews. Independent Senator Gerard Craughwell writes that Ireland’s waters are also EU waters. Ireland is the ‘lame duck’ in securing the European Union’s (EU) maritime domain, but particularly both its…
While some major regattas of a national and international variety are scheduled for Dun Laoghaire later in the “summer”, the local regatta scene gets underway in two weeks when the Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club hosts the first of the…
SSE Renewables Round Ireland From Wicklow Attracts International Offshore Glitterati
25th May 2024 W M Nixon
With recent additions to the entry list including such glitterati as Pete Smyth of the Royal Irish YC with his newly-acquired Ker 46 Searcher (she was formerly Tonnere de Breskens to give the late great Dutch skipper Piet Vroon his…
World Cup II is off to a good start for Irish rowing. The weather stayed good in the morning for the majority of the racing. However, the Rotsee saw a big change in the afternoon, with strong winds, rain, and…
From a selective look at the damp and occasionally drizzly weather stats issued from Howth today (Friday, May 24th), you might be tempted to talk of “hot racing on a soft day” to describe the first outing in the Porche-sponsored…
Foyle Maritime Festival: A Spectacular Celebration of Maritime Heritage and Culture
24th May 2024 Foyle Port
The much-anticipated Foyle Maritime Festival is set to return to the historic walled city of Derry in Northern Ireland from Thursday, June 27th to Sunday, June 30th. This vibrant festival is expected to attract over 150,000 visitors from around the world…
New €2.16 Million Sea Survival Training Pool Officially Opened in Greencastle, Co. Donegal
24th May 2024 BIM
The Minister for Marine, Charlie McConalogue, T.D, has officially opened the new €2.16 million national sea survival training pool at the Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM), National Fisheries College of Ireland (NFCI) in Greencastle, Co. Donegal. Minister McConalogue expressed his delight…