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Cork Tug Retrieves Stricken Cargo Ship From Over Third Of Way To Canada
25th August 2019 Ports & Shipping
A tug from a Cork-based salvage company has spent a week at sea on a mission to tow a stricken cargo ship to safety here — from over a third of the way to Canada, as the Irish Examiner reports.…
#Rowing: The Ireland women’s four gave a good account of themselves on their first competitive outing together, just missing out on direct qualification from their heat of the World Rowing Championships in Linz, Austria. Tara Hanlon, Eimear Lambe, Aifric Keogh…
Motor Cruiser With Two People & Three Dogs On Board Rescued By Wicklow Lifeboat
25th August 2019 RNLI Lifeboats
Wicklow RNLI brought two people and three dogs to safety yesterday afternoon (Saturday 24 August) after their 33ft motor cruiser got fouled in ropes off the Wicklow coast. The all-weather lifeboat Jock & Annie Slater put to sea shortly at…
#Rowing: Aoife Casey and Denise Walsh finished fourth in their heat and qualified for the quarter-finals of the lightweight double sculls at the World Rowing Championships in Linz, Austria. The top three in the race will all have ambitions of…
Fintan McCarthy and Paul O'Donovan Untroubled in World Championship Heat Win
25th August 2019 Rowing
#Rowing: Ireland’s Fintan McCarthy and Paul O’Donovan won their heat to qualify directly for their quarter-final of the lightweight double sculls at the World Rowing Championships in Austria this morning. The Skibbereen-UCC combination were well in command all through. There…
Women's Pair Straight Through but O'Donovan and O'Driscoll Must Go Again at World Championships
25th August 2019 Rowing
#Rowing: Monika Dukarska and Aileen Crowley took an encouraging second place in their heat as they qualified for the quarter finals in the women’s pair at the World Rowing Championships in Linz, Austria. The United States looked to have the…
Greystones Sailing Club yacht Eleuthera (Frank Whelan) was the winner of Saturday's final Viking Marine ISORA Coastal Series Race from Dun Laoghaire on Dublin Bay to Greystones Harbour in County Wicklow. Only eight of the 14 starters finished the 40-mile…
Dublin Bay Sailing Club (DBSC) sent a fleet south on a 'passage' race for to Greystones in County Wicklow yesterday. Participating Cruiser Classes were one, three and five finished at Greystones in time for today's BJ Marine 'Taste of Greystones'…
#Canoeing: Jenny Egan took eighth in her semi-final of the K1 500 metres and moved into the C Final at the canoe sprint World Championships in Szeged in Hungary today. The top three qualified for the A Final and stayed…
Sailors have completed 6 of the scheduled 11 races at the end of Day two at the Irish Laser Nationals at Ballyholme Yacht Club on Belfast Lough. Conditions have been tricky for sailors and Race Officer Sheila Lewis and her…
Sweltering late summer heat in Japan has prompted sailing officials to relax rules on the wearing of lifejackets during the recent Tokyo 2020 test events, as France 24 reports. Doctors recommended competitors in the Ready Steady Tokyo windsurfing final on…
“Breeze On” at the 2019 J24 Irish National Championships at Lough Erne Yacht Club
24th August 2019 J24
While the official entry was thirty-one for the 2019 J24 Irish National Championships at Lough Erne Yacht Club, twenty-eight made it to the first start line including five under 25 teams writes Elaine O'Mahoney. The under 25 team from Royal…
Crews Not Endangered By Poor State Of RIB Launching System, Says Naval Service
24th August 2019 Navy
The Naval Service denies any personnel on the LÉ Samuel Beckett were put in danger by the poor state of equipment used to raise and lower RIBs into the water, as The Irish Times reports. The statement followed an inspection…
A man has died after getting into difficulty swimming in Galway Bay yesterday (Friday 23 August). Independent.ie reports that the man aged in his late 70s had been swimming off Salthill around noon yesterday when he got into difficulty. His…
Tours of Naval Patrol Ship in Port of Galway Tomorrow Sunday 25 August
24th August 2019 Galway Harbour
Naval Service patrol ship LÉ Samuel Beckett (which this week detained a Portuguese fishing vessel) will be open for public tours when it is docked in the Port of Galway tomorrow, Sunday 25 August. According to GalwayDaily, Naval Service crew…
BJ Marine 'Taste of Greystones' Regatta This Weekend Celebrates a Unique Town & Harbour
23rd August 2019 W M Nixon
The problem with Greystones is that it faces the sea writes W M Nixon. Or at the very least, there isn’t a part of the north Wicklow town in which you aren’t very aware that the sea is nearby. The…
One of the things I have done in my life is an iceberg watch on the bow of an offshore yacht racing in the Atlantic during the dark hours of night, keeping an eye out for ‘growlers’. These are small…
#Canoeing: Barry Watkins qualified for the B Final of the men’s K1 1,000 metres at the canoe sprint World Championships in Szeged in Hungary. He finished sixth in his semi-final. He had earlier finished sixth in the B Final of…
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Greetings to all J109 sailors! As the summer draws to a close and our seasonal pricing programme starts (please do get in touch for special offers now!), we thought it would be timely to reflect on what has been an…
In the week when there was a “macro-committee” meeting of the organising team for the Subaru Ireland sponsored Flying Fifteen World Championship 2019, a slightly reduced fleet took part in the penultimate race of the Flying Fifteen 2019 DBSC midweek…
