Irish Powerboat News. RIB's, Motor Yachts and Cruiser Updates
Heights of Abraham and Grandstand Motor Sports became the inaugural Powerboat P1 SuperStock Champions at the Lymington Grand Prix of the Sea on Saturday. The Superstock series visited Galway this Summer.Rupert Pugh and Dan Whapples finished second in the afternoon's…
Britain's premier powerboat series races into the spiritual home of the sport this weekend as the P1 SuperStock Championship powers into Southampton for the penultimate round of its 2010 competition.Councillor, John Hannides, Cabinet Member for Leisure, Culture and Heritage, has…
Lisnaskea driver Will Chambers was the winner of the Formula Two ISA National Powerboat Racing Championships run by Youghal Bay Boat Club. This new club did themselves proud under the direction of OOD and Club Commodore Padraig Brooks. A well attended event,…
Youghal Harbour comes alive this Sunday when the only round of the ISA National Powerboat Championships to be held in Cork this year rolls into town and down the slipway. This will be the penultimate round of this year's series…
Northern Ireland's Powerboat Racing Festival kicks off at Ballyronan Marina, Lough Neagh on August 22nd. North East Powerboat and Racing Club are staging the event that is also round four of the Irish National Championships. The club promises a great…
Eight Red Bay RIBs and 35 crew have completed a 240 nautical mile cruise and visited five Scottish Islands. Not bad for a 2 day cruise! This is the second cruise Tom McLauglhin of Red Bay has organised and boats…
Excalibur RIBs of Cork have been busy this summer not only with a new 65 knot RIB for Round Ireland record holder Philip Fitzgibbon but also with new boats for Civil Defence teams in two locations around the coast. Joe…
Youghal Boat Club hosts its first national powerboat race hosted this weekend. Commodore Padraig Brooks sends this report: "All of our committee have been working hard these past few weeks, in conjunction with the Ardmore Pattern Festival committee to bring…
People don’t generally associate Ribs with fishing, their perception is that the hooks will puncture the tubes. One man Hamish Currie has disproved this theory, Hamish who runs one of the top charter angling businesses in Ireland has just taken…
Team Pulsar Show Strength in Around Ireland Powerboat Challenge
17th June 2010 Around Ireland Offshore Powerboat Race 2010
Around Ireland Race organiser Justin McInerney's Team Pulsar Racing had two boats in this month's inaugural Around Ireland Powerboat Race, a powrboat race that lived up to its billing as a tough one. Reliability and consistency were key components that…
Final Results (and Photos) of the Around Ireland Powerboat Race
14th June 2010 Around Ireland Offshore Powerboat Race 2010
The Around Powerboat Race 2010 finished in Galway Bay yesterday (Saturday 12 June) with German entry Cinzano Bianco claiming the overall prize with an average speed of 38 knots over the 7 day period. Cinzano Bianco driven by Markus Hendricks…
Cinzano leads the Around Ireland Powerboat Race again, blasting away in a northwesterly direction from the Fastnet Rock at close to 55 knots. Close on her heels was the Newstalk/Galway Girl boat, navigated by event organiser Enda O'Coineen, but in…
The boats competing in the Around Ireland Powerboat Race roared into Waterford yesterday and will take a day off to prepare for the leg to Fenit on Friday morning. The weather down the Irish sea from Bangor was described as…
Around Ireland Offshore Powerboat Race Arrives in Waterford
9th June 2010 Around Ireland Offshore Powerboat Race 2010
Local Galway Flyer was forced to retire from the second leg of the race due to an electrical failure yesterday but after a tow in to Bangor the high speed powerboat started the third leg from Bangor to Waterford this…
Charity Jetski Team to Shadow Around Ireland Powerboats
8th June 2010 Around Ireland Offshore Powerboat Race 2010
Two county Clare businessmen have begun their bid to circumnavigate Ireland on jet-skis to raise funds for the Tipperary, Limerick and Clare branch of the Cystic Fibrosis Association of Ireland (CFAI). The men and their water and land-based support teams…
Heights of Abraham Storms to Galway Powerboat Success
7th June 2010 Around Ireland Offshore Powerboat Race 2010
Heights of Abraham completed a clean sweep at the Galway Grand Prix of the Sea on Monday after another imperious display of offshore powerboat racing secured back-to-back titles for the Matlock-based team. A combination of aggressive handling and punishing throttle…
