Owners and operators of personal water craft and power propelled boats are warned that speeding and navigating without due care, likely to cause danger, injury or damage to persons, vessels or property, are offences making the Master or Owner of the vessel liable to prosecution.
All craft should not exceed moderate speed within TWO HUNDRED METRES of any bank, jetty, wharf, pier, beach or vessel anchored or moored.
Water ski-ing or aquaplaning behind speedboats, the operation of personal water craft or any craft at speed is entirely prohibited when within two hundred metres of any public beach, bathing place or residential property within the jurisdiction of the Dublin Port Company, viz: all the water within the area from Rory O’Moore Bridge over the River Liffey and an imaginary line drawn from the Baily Lighthouse extending through North Burford Bank Buoy to South Burford Bank Buoy to Sorrento Point at Dalkey on the South side, but excluding Dun Laoghaire Harbour.
Attention is also drawn to the fact that small boats sailing, rowing or proceeding under power within the limits of the Harbour are strictly required to keep out of the fairway channel.
The fairway extends to No. 3 bar buoy, No. 1 bar buoy and Dublin Bay buoy at which point ships lining up for their approach to the channel may be restricted in their ability to manoeuvre.
All private or leisure craft are prohibited from entering or approaching any of the basins, berths or jetties within the port
Captain David T. Dignam
Harbour Master.
1st January 2010