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Cruising Association Delighted Members Paul and Rachel Chandler are Safe
15th November 2010 Cruising
The Cruising Association is delighted that members Paul and Rachel Chandler are safe after their ordeal and hopes that they will soon be reunited with friends and family. President Stuart Bradley says "It has been a truly awful ordeal for…
With one week to go before the ARC 2010 fleet leave Las Palmas for Rodney Bay in Saint Lucia, there are no Irish yachts entered in a fleet of 205 yachts drawn from 28 nations. Crews from the yachts already berthed in…
Replica 600 BC Ship Returns Triumphant After 20,000 Mile Circumnavigation of Africa
3rd November 2010 Cruising
Phoenicia, the replica 600BC wooden ship, has arrived triumphantly back in Syria having completed a 20,000 mile circumnavigation of Africa. The journey was intended to recreate the first circumnavigation of Africa, thought to have been achieved by Phoenician mariners around…
South East Cruising School is no longer operating in Irish waters and in a letter to Afloat magazine, Principal Charlie Kavanagh, outlined his reasons for closure. The letter is reproduced below. The Marine Survey Office (MSO) was offered a right…
A trimaran reportedly built in Ireland has ended up wrecked on a beach in Hawaii. A large portion of the massive craft was washed ashore on Kailua beach last week forcing island authorities to cut it up and remove it.…
Two old seadogs are preparing to cross the Atlantic in a small sailing boat in aid of the world's poorest children. Rudi Teichmann, a retired sea captain now living in Ballinspittle, Co. Cork and his friend Gerhard Meschter who lives…
It's not often we get a mega yacht (a private boat above 70m or 230 feet) in Dublin bay. The Skat is currently lying on Sir John Rogerson’s Quay. Click HERE and have a look at the images at the bottom…
