Afloat – Ireland's Sailing and Boating Magazine
Lady Min Restoration: The Attraction of Boats in the Life of a Family
28th November 2018 Tom MacSweeney
Hello and welcome to my weekly Podcast …. Tom MacSweeney here …. There is a great lot to be said about the pride of a family in a boat and there is nothing wrong with being old when age is…
Cork Harbour Topper & Laser Frostbite Series Concludes at Royal Cork Yacht Club
27th November 2018 Royal Cork YC
The annual Topper and Laser Frostbite Series concluded following racing each weekend during November. Fifty-one sailors registered and we were delighted to welcome sailors from around Cork Harbour and further afield. The weather varied from light on week one to…
UCD Sailing Club Hosting Charity Team Racing Event in Aid of 'Movember'
27th November 2018 Team Racing
UCD Sailing Club is hosting a charity run team racing event in aid of the Movember foundation on the 1st of December out of the Royal Irish Yacht Club in Dun Laoghaire Harbour. Club members have been working hard growing…
Balbriggan Harbour Area Redevelopment Offers Potential for Old Town with Young Population
27th November 2018 Coastal Notes
When you’ve an ancient port town which happens to have the youngest population in all Ireland, clearly you face problems when the local authority proposes plans to upgrade the old harbour area to bring it more in line with the…
Minister Welcomes Inland Fisheries Ireland Funding For ‘Fishing Futures’ Project In Wicklow
27th November 2018 Angling
#Angling - Fishing Futures, a project targeting local community groups in Wicklow, has been awarded funding from Inland Fisheries Ireland to help support its work. The project, which is organised by the Wicklow Travellers Group, allows young people to experience…
The scourge of bow stickers stuffing rubbish bins and polluting waters the world over could soon be a thing of the past thanks to a new biodegradable variant. YachtRacing.life reports on the new stickers from race boat supplier PROtect Tapes,…
Goodbody's J109 'White Mischief' Regains Overall DBSC Turkey Shoot Lead
27th November 2018 Turkey Shoot
The crew that recovered a man overboard and then retired from the race last Sunday has moved into the overall lead of the DBSC Citroen South Dublin Turkey Shoot Series. After four races sailed, and one discard applied, Tim and…
As the country's biggest racing club continues to run races on a year-round basis, with this month's Turkey Shoot series making record turnouts, last night Dublin Bay Sailing Club Commodore Chris Moore addressed members at the club AGM with this report of…
Gale Warning For Irish Coastal Waters As Storm Diana Comes To Batter The Country
27th November 2018 Weather
Met Éireann says a Status Yellow gale warning is in effect on all Irish coastal waters and on the Irish Sea as of 6am this morning (Tuesday 27 November) as the first of two waves of stormy weather conditions passes…
The 2018 South Coast of Ireland Offshore Racing Association (SCORA) AGM will take place in the Royal Cork Yacht Club on Tue December 4th at 7.30pm. Among the items on the agenda will be a discussion on the future of…
St Colman’s Community College in Midleton, Co Cork was named School of the Year in the recent Ocean Hero Awards presented by the Clean Coasts programme at the Clayton Hotel Cork City recently. This year Clean Coasts’ Ocean Hero Awards…
Easterlies were in place again for this weekend’s Laser action in Howth. Unlike last weeks’ pleasant smooth rolling sea, the breeze was stronger and the ebb tide made for a steeper chop which was much harder work. With winds ranging…
Irish Team Racing Association Lends Support to INSS & Gonzaga College January Initiative
26th November 2018 Team Racing
The Irish Team Racing Association has given its support to the new Schools team racing initiative launched by Gonzaga College and the Irish National Sailing School. The INSS event will consist of one day's team racing using the INSC’s fleet…
Members of Dublin’s dockland communities gathered at Poolbeg Yacht Club to celebrate more than 25 years of the Rinn Voyager Sailing Project. Those in attendance included former volunteers, organisers and participants of the project over the years and saw the…
Tom Dolan’s series of talks on his remarkable 2018 offshore season continues in Dublin at the National Yacht Club tomorrow evening, Tuesday 27 November. Last week the Figaro debutante regaled the members of the Royal Cork in Crosshaven with tales…
Arctic Beluga Among Whale Species Recorded In Irish Waters In New Research
26th November 2018 Marine Wildlife
The Beluga whale — a species mainly found in the Arctic Circle — has been recorded in Irish territorial waters as part of a groundbreaking three-year research project into our offshore habitats for marine wildlife. On Friday (23 November) the…
One of the Kinsale RNLI volunteers honoured for their role in the rescue of 30 crew from the tall ship Astrid in July 2013 has been jailed for seven years on drug distrubution charges. As The Irish Times reports, Liam O’Connell was…
The fourth round of the 2018/19 DMYC dinghy Frostbite Series offered to be a healthy affair with a projected forecast of 10 – 14 knots from the east, a bit of sunshine and an air temperature of 6/7⁰. After a…
Sean Craig Takes Third at Radial UK Inlands at Grafham, Mark Lyttle Fourth in Full Rig
25th November 2018 Laser
Irish sailors were in the mix at the UK Laser Master Inlands at Grafham Water this weekend. Royal St. George's Sean Craig took third overall in the Radials and in the much bigger fleet of Full rigs, the National Yacht Club's…
Royal North Ireland Yacht Club 'Frostie' Series Reaches Halfway Stage for RS400 Fleet
25th November 2018 RS Sailing
Sunday 25th November was the fourth day and halfway point of the Frosty series at Royal North of Ireland Yacht Club, 23 RS400s hit the start line, easterly 16-27 knot wind with big waves made for entertaining racing in an…
