West Cork Sailing & Boating News
Schull Harbour Regeneration Plan Directors Mull Over ’Next Actions’ After Expiry of Planning Permission
8th January 2023 West Cork
Directors of the Schull Community Harbour Development Company Limited (SCHDC) say they have met to discuss “next actions” and “continue to consider all options available” following the expiry of planning permission for redevelopment of the West Cork harbour. In a…
Port of Kinsale’s Lobster Pot Christmas Creation Named ‘Unusual Tree of the Day’ by Alastair Campbell
7th January 2023 Kinsale
Tony Blair’s former spin doctor has bestowed an unusual honour upon the Port of Kinsale’s special Christmas tree. Earlier this week, Alastair Campbell named the lobster pot creation by local fisherman Eamonn O’Neill has his ‘Unusual Tree of the Day’…
Kinsale RNLI’s volunteer lifeboat crew along with the assistance of four coastguard units rescued two stranded dogs on Bank Holiday Monday (2 January). The dogs had gotten into difficulty at the bottom of a cliff near Nohoval Cove in West…
Kinsale Cruisers Race for 30th Gunsmoke Bell Trophy Honours on St. Stephen's Day
26th December 2022 Kinsale
2022 was a special year for Kinsale Yacht Club’s St. Stephens Day race for the Gunsmoke Bell Trophy. This year marked thirty years of race sponsorship by long-standing club member Sammy Cohen. For the nine boats that took part this…
Kinsale Yacht Club Recruiting Instructors for 2023 Junior Sailing Courses
26th December 2022 Kinsale
Kinsale Yacht Club in West Cork is now recruiting instructors and assistants for its 2023 junior sailing courses. These courses will run for six weeks from 26 June to 5 August 2023. Interested parties should send an email to [email protected]…
Belated Celebration to Mark Retirement of Baltimore Lifeboat’s Former Coxswain Kieran Cotter
26th December 2022 RNLI Lifeboats
Baltimore RNLI will host a proper send-off for its retired former coxswain Kieran Cotter this Tuesday evening 27 December from 8pm at Jacob’s Bar in the West Cork village. As previously reported on Afloat.ie, Cotter retired at the end of…
1200 UTC 11th January 2023: RORC says this time should be double underlined in the calendar of those wishing to enter next year’s Rolex Fastnet Race, as it will be the moment when registration officially opens for the 50th edition…
When you sail west past Mizen Head in the deep south, or Malin Head in the far north, you know you’re getting into the real Atlantic territory, where they do things differently afloat and ashore. For although the hundreds of…
Castletownbere RNLI lifeboat was launched today (Monday 5th December 2022) at 12:45 to go to the immediate assistance of a fishing trawler, drifting without power, between Dinish Island and Bere Island in West Cork. A thirty-metre fishing vessel raised the…
Kinsale Yacht Club's Maeve Cotter Announced as Dragon Gold Cup 2024 Director
4th December 2022 Dragon
Maeve Cotter will act as the regatta director for Kinsale's staging of the Dragon Gold Cup in 2024. Cotter is a former Commodore of Glandore Harbour Yacht Club and the current Rear Commodore of Kinsale YC. She takes up the role…
Kinsale Yacht Club honoured its Under 25 team and presented them with awards for their achievement to mark the success of the club’s project which, through the support of members, bought a J24, which they named Kinsailor and sailed successfully…
Kinsale Yacht Club Gets Set for 'Full-Strength' 2023 Simply Blue Group Sponsored Sovereign’s Cup Regatta
25th November 2022 Sovereign's Cup
Sovereign's Cup Regatta Director Tony Scannell has published the Notice of Race (downloadable below) for next June's 15th Cup for Cruisers, Coastal and White Sails fleets. Scannell confirmed Kinsale Yacht Club is looking forward to welcoming everyone back to a 'full-strength'…
Cork’s community boatyard, Meitheal Mara, has appointed writer, sailor and adventurer, Jasper Winn, as its “writer-in-motion”. His task is to write a book about its history since foundation in 1993, analysing what it has achieved and looking to its future.…
Irish Team Racing National Championships at Baltimore Cancelled Due to Strong Wind Forecast
17th November 2022 Team Racing
The Irish Team Racing Association (ITRA) National Championships 2022 has been 'disappointingly' cancelled due to very strong southerly then westerly winds this weekend. The forecasted sea state for Baltimore Harbour in West Cork of up to 2m and 40-knot squalls…
Dun Laoghaire’s Classic Water Wags Continue To Increase With Two New-Builds In West Cork
15th November 2022 Water Wag
It could be argued that the progress of the Dublin Bay Water Wag Class has been unstoppable since its foundation in 1887 by Ben Middleton and his friends as the world’s first One-Design fleet. There may have been times in…
Major Kinsale Design Input For New 54 Metre Sloop With Supra-National Links
9th November 2022 Kinsale
Today’s largest sailing superyachts are so much a world unto themselves that they lead a sort of independent and supra-national existence. The name of Argentine-born designer Juan Kouyoumdjian (an ancestor was Armenian) may be best known in Ireland for his…