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Royal Cork Yacht Club Cruisers Are Back Training in Cork Harbour 13th May 2021 As Afloat reported earlier, the cruisers are being launched for training purposes this month. Racing itself won't resume until after June 7, so the training sessions will be used to get racers prepared and up to speed for events like the Sovereigns Cup and the resumption of evening cruiser racing next month. (Above and below) The Grand Soleil 37 Prince of Tides Photo: Bob Bateman As well as the plan for RCYC keelboats, other adult sailors, including National 18s and Lasers, are being told by their Class Ca...

Currach Created from Recycled Materials Built for St Patrick's Festival in Barcelona 16th March 2021 The currach made by artist Mark Redden in Barcelona for St Patrick's Day.  An Irish currach made entirely from recycled and salvaged material is to be launched by artist and boatbuilder Mark Redden in Barcelona, Spain on St Patrick’s Day. As The Times Ireland reports today, “Saoirse” has been built over the past year by Redden as part of a project to investigate the level of plastic pollution in fish. Redden has modelled this vessel on the Connemara version while using only materials...

Cork Harbour Information It’s one of the largest natural harbours in the world – and those living near Cork Harbour insist that it’s also one of the most interesting. This was the last port of call for the most famous liner in history, the Titanic, but it has been transformed into a centre for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry. The harbour has been a working port and a strategic defensive hub for centuries, and it has been one of Ireland's major employment hubs since the early 1900s. Traditional heavy industries have waned since the late 20th century, with the likes of the closur...

Blaze at Cork Harbour Grain Store ‘Was Third in Four Months’ 10th January 2021 A smoke plume rises from the fire at the grain storage facility on Ringaskiddy’s deepwater quay Credit: Twitter/Tom MacSweeney Yesterday’s fire at a grain storage facility in Ringaskiddy was the third such incident in the past fourth months, firefighters have said. According to The Irish Times, concerns have been brewing as it emerged that local residents learned of the blaze from the media rather than the Port of Cork and Cork County Council’s notification system. As previously reported on Afloat.ie, t...

New Film Shows How Tree Went From Oak to Boat in Iron Age Replica Project 14th December 2020 The replica logboat was modelled on the sunken boat that measures some 7.5m long, 0.61m wide and 0.4m deep. An oak tree’s transformation from trunk to replica iron age boat on Connemara's Lough Corrib has been filmed as part of a University College Cork (UCC) project. Entitled "A New Logboat for Lough Corrib: The Pallasboy Project", the film was made over 20 months and documents how the logboat was modelled on a 2,400-year-old vessel found at the bottom of Lough Corrib. The original was partially ...