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6th April 2021

Ship With Cargo of Boats Adrift Off Norwegian Coast

The Eemslift Hendrika moments before a number of its crew jumped from its deck as it listed dangerously to starboard

The crew of a Dutch cargo vessel were rescued by helicopter as their ship developed a heavy list in the Norwegian Sea late on Monday (5 April).

Now there are concerns that the Eemslift Hendrika, which remains adrift with its cargo of boats, could capsize and cause a serious pollution incident.

According to Marine Industry News, shifting cargo on deck caused the vessel to destabilise amid extreme weather with 15-metre swells some 60 miles off Ålesund in Norway.

Dramatic footage from Norway’s coastguard shows some the 12 crew leaping into the water as the vessel listed dangerously.

Along with its cargo of boats, including a motor yacht, the Eemslift Hendrika has some 350 tonnes of heavy oil and 50 tonnes of diesel fuel.

“What is important is that we now get measures taken so that we can prevent the vessel from posing an environmental hazard. That is our main focus,” Hans Petter Mortensholm of the Norwegian Coastal Administration said.

Marine Industry News has more on the story HERE.

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New York Yacht Club’s biennial Invitational Cup

Ireland has a proud history in New York Yacht Club’s biennial Invitational Cup, with Irish participation from the very start and a podium result in 2019.

In 2009, two Irish Clubs, Royal St. George in Dun Laoghaire and Royal Cork in Crosshaven, entered into New York's newest sailing competition that was reminiscent of Newport’s America’s Cup days when 19 yacht club teams from 14 nations descended on this “City by the Sea”.

The Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup is a competition between yacht clubs, with strict eligibility rules ensuring that each team is comprised exclusively of amateur sailors.

The competition, which was first run in 2009, has drawn entries from 49 clubs from 22 nations on all six inhabited continents.

The New York Yacht Club won the inaugural event in 2009, with the Royal Canadian Yacht Club winning in 2011 and 2013, England's Royal Thames Yacht Club winning in 2015 and Southern Yacht Club from New Orleans winning in 2017.

In 2019 the regatta was sailed for the first time in the New York Yacht Club’s fleet of IC37 yachts, and Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, from Australia, became the first Southern Hemisphere club to win the trophy. And it was in this edition that Anthony O’Leary’s Royal Cork team took the bronze medal.