Scottish Waters
Brian Pahlmann Joins RYA Scotland Team as New Regional Development Officer
1st July 2022 Scottish Waters
Brian Pahlmann joins the team at RYA Scotland as the regional development officer (RDO) for the North of Scotland and the Islands. Hailing from the United States and with a strong background in community sports and active lifestyles, Pahlmann is…
Conditions Test Mettle of Scottish Youths and Juniors at Largs Over Weekend
20th June 2022 Scottish Waters
As part of the RYA Regional Junior Championships, RYA Scotland hosted Scottish youth and junior sailors at Largs Sailing Club in testing conditions this past weekend of 18-19 June. High west and northwest winds dominated the weekend, with volunteers and…
Organisers Cancel Scotland’s Boat Show 2022, Citing Increased Costs and Shortage of Boats for Sale
16th June 2022 Scottish Waters
Scotland’s Boat Show has been cancelled for 2022, with organisers citing mounting costs and a shortage of boats for sale, as Marine Industry News reports. The event had been set to take place this October at Kip Marina, Inverclyde —…
A win in the final race for the appropriately named Final Call II in Kip Regatta at the weekend clinched an overall first in the RC 35 division for John Minnis’s Archambault 35 from Royal Ulster and Royal North of…
RYA Scotland are looking to identify a team of young sailors from Scotland to go to the British Keelboat League Championship Finals in Southampton in September 2022. An online information session on Tuesday 24 May at 7pm will set out…
Young Adults Learn to Sail in Tough Conditions on Scotland’s West Coast
11th May 2022 Scottish Waters
The Our Isles and Oceans’ group of inexperienced sailors witnessed upwards of 30-knot winds in the Sound of Mull in Scotland today. The Our Isles and Oceans 68-foot Clipper Round the World racing yacht set sail from Tobermory Harbour this…
Pregnancies in bottlenose dolphins can now be determined from images captured by drone, according to new research. As the Irish Examiner reports, marine scientists from University of Aberdeen and Duke University have flown drones over the Moray Firth Special Area…
Shirley Robertson & Dee Caffari Go Double Handed for the 2022 Offshore Season
6th January 2022 Rd Britain & Ireland
Two of Britain's most decorated female sailors will be teaming up for the upcoming 2022 Double Handed Offshore Season. Dee Caffari and Shirley Robertson will be sailing together throughout 2022 in the UK Double Handed Offshore Series, racing a new…
Saskia Tidey’s Tokyo 2020 49erFX Partner Charlotte Dobson Retires From Olympic Sailing
19th December 2021 Tokyo 2020
The 49erFX partner of Dun Laoghaire’s Saskia Tidey at Tokyo 2020 has spoken of her fond memories of competing at the highest level as she called time on her Olympic career. As previously reported on Afloat.ie, Charlotte Dobson was among…
Firm With Irish HQ Installs Portside Pontoon for Servicing Scotland’s Largest Wind Farm
10th December 2021 Scottish Waters
An Irish company has installed a new pontoon for the servicing of Scotland’s largest offshore wind farm, as Marine Industry News reports. Inland and Coastal Marina Systems, which is headquartered in Banagher in Co Offaly, was contracted to provide for…
Royal Ulster’s John Minnis Picks up His Scottish Series Trophy at Clyde Cruising Club’s Annual Prizegiving
30th November 2021 Scottish Series
The North Rotunda in Glasgow was the swanky venue for the Clyde Cruising Club’s Annual Prizegiving last weekend and there to pick up his prizes won at the Scottish Series way back at the end of May was Royal Ulster’s…
Royal St. George Team Racers Win Millennium Trophy at Dun Laoghaire Harbour
1st November 2021 Team Racing
The Royal St. George Yacht Club were the convincing winner after 24 races of the J/80 Millennium Bowl Team Racing event at Dun Laoghaire Harbour at the weekend. Saturday saw Dublin Bay Race Officer Barry O'Neill complete 18 races that…
Artemis Technologies, founded in 2017, is the lead partner in the Belfast Maritime Consortium, a 13-member syndicate working on designing and building zero-emission high-speed ferries in the city through the creation of its unique electric hydrofoiling propulsion system, which is…
Belfast Lough Seal Spotted With Can Stuck on Jaw Rescued in Scotland
19th October 2021 Marine Wildlife
A young harbour seal spotted in Belfast Lough earlier this month with an aluminium can stuck on its lower jaw has been rescued by police in Scotland. The Irish News reports that the juvenile marine mammal had swum across the…
Global Marine SubSea Cable Laying in Scottish & Northern Irish Waters
18th October 2021 Northern Ireland Waters
The Essex based subsea engineering company, Global Marine, is planning to install the Scot-NI 3 and Scot-NI 4 Telecommunications cables in Scottish and Northern Irish waters on behalf of British Telecommunications plc, between November 1st and December 20th this year.…
Morrish Wins Ceilidh Cup for Royal Northern & Clyde Yacht Club
12th October 2021 RYA Northern Ireland
Blustery conditions made for challenging racing for the seven teams competing in the Ceilidh Cup / Scottish Student Sailing (SSS) Match Racing event, hosted at the Royal Northern and Clyde Yacht Club in Rhu, Scotland, on Saturday 9th & Sunday…