Join the Dublin Bay Old Gaffers Association for the regatta, featuring races and a flotilla on May 23-25 at Poolbeg.

Yet despite this development, sailors distrusted the bermudan rig. The gaff rig allowed sails to be readily reduced in high winds by taking down the topmast and sail, while the early brass slides had ...

Sportin’ Life brought back a blue marlin that weighed in at 449.4 pounds to take the lead in the SC Blue Marlin Invitational.

The biggest yacht to be built in an Essex seaside town for nearly 50 years has been completed - with a mission to sail it around the world. The Laerling, a 52ft gaff-rigged steel ketch ...

The fifth restored Dublin Bay 21, ‘Oola’, debuted amid excitement, capturing the essence of Ireland's historic sailing culture ...

Beadle and Edwards put her up for sale in 1911 at which point she slipped into obscurity until the early 1950s. Therefore, ...

The hook stuck the fish perfectly and kept it pinned all the way to the boat. In the 300 to 400 casts ... And the head is solid, creating a secure place for rigging. Below the head, a piece ...

The 52ft gaff-rigged steel ketch, named Laerling ... At the ceremony, biochemist Chris Torrance, 56, said: "To sail the seven seas into our sunset years with Peta is all my dreams come true." Laerling ...