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Afloat October/November 2010 What's in the Latest Edition Of Afloat Magazine in shops Tuesday 5th October. Report Will Reveal How Asgard II Sank What caused the loss of Ireland's sail training vessel Telephone Navigation Finding your way afloat with the…

The sailing community is mourning the loss of Irish speed sailing record holder John Kenny (37) following a tragedy last Wednesday night at Hanover Quay in Dublin. John's funeral took place this morning at St. Patrick's Church, Ringsend. Details HERE.…

Dublin windsurfer Oisin Van Gelderen has an anxious wait for verification that he broke the Irish Speed Sailing record yesterday. "I know for sure my Max Speed of 47.17 knots is the fastest any Irish sailor has ever done" he…

Police in Northern Ireland have launched an investigation after a six-year-old boy was critically injured when he was struck by a speedboat near Carlingford Lough in Co Down. Stuart Wilson was on a wake-board being towed by another boat when the…

Sailing is mourning the loss of two important stalwarts this week. In Dublin Franz Winkelmann, a former commodore of the National YC in Dun Laoghaire died last Sunday. In Cork, Patricia Kaiser a former board member of the Irish Sailing…

It's taken 12 months of frustrating campaigning but there is light at the end of the tunnel for thousands of berth owners in Spain where the authorities have finally called-off plans to impose the dreaded 'Ley de Costas' according to…

It was an Independence day party of a different kind - a boarding party - that led to an Irishman getting his marching orders from the US Department of Homeland Security. While on a pleasure cruise off Long Island, Dave…

The US Coast Guard has suspended the search for Eoin Curran, a 30-year-old computer programmer who fell overboard in the Long Island sound on Sunday. Curran, from Templeogue, was knocked overboard from a Sonar keelboat in a squall, and disappeared…

An Irish man who fell overboard while sailing in the Long Island sound has died. Eoin Curran, 30, from Templeogue, was knocked overboard when his Sonar keelboat was hit by a squall. Curran was not wearing a lifejacket at the…

The blockade-breaking protest ship MV Rachel Corrie could be on the seas again within weeks, with reports that the Israeli authorities are ready to release the ship from Ashdod. The Rachel Corrie carried Irish protesters as part of a wave…

Former Lord Mayor of Dublin and Veteran activist and politician Sean Dublin Bay Loftus has died aged 82. He was best known for changing his name by deed poll in his tireless and successful campaigning against repeated attempts to develop…

Well-known Irish adventurer Mark Pollock is in a stable but serious condition in the Royal Berkshire Hospital this evening after a fall from an upper floor window. The Belfast-born explorer fell 25 feet from a bedroom window in a house…

Afloat magazine has released a digital edition bringing you boating news straight to your desktop in an exciting page turning format. If you've missed your copy in the newsagents or you are overseas, don't worry, the rich media edition of…

The Cruising Rally Association (CRA), best known as the organiser of the annual Caribbean 1500 Rally from Hampton VA to the British Virgin Islands, and World Cruising Club (WCC), organizers of the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC), from Las Palmas…

Three intrepid young British yachtsmen, Luke Yeates, Jack Gifford and Will Shepherd, have taken up the challenge by the Scandinavian Classic Yacht Trust, SCYT, for British classic yacht owners to retrace Uffa Fox's famous 1000 mile, 1930 voyage from Cowes…

The 100ft Canting Keel Maxi Leopard 3 has broken its own record for a 24-hour run, covering 495 nautical miles. The previous record stood at 466.4NM. The record is in a special category for craft with powered winches, and doesn't…