Kinsale - Deep Sea Angling, Wildlife & Diving.

Fáilte ar bord HARPY and welcome to Kinsale, Ireland - home of great sea fishing and great food for you, your family, your friends. We offer great value in Angling Trips and Wildlife Tours from the centre of Kinsale.

We also perform hydrographic surveys with in-house side-scan and multi-beam sonars and Search and Recover (SAR) services with our ROVs. For qualified divers we offer trips to local wrecks and scenic sites.

We would love you to enjoy the great angling and sea adventures that await from Kinsale aboard HARPY.

HARPY is a safe, fast, 43', 450 hp, aquastar deep-sea charter angling/dive/survey boat and safety boat plying daily from Kinsale harbour. She boasts a large, comfortable, heated island wheelhouse with Free WiFi aboard.

HARPY has great space for 12 anglers or divers plus equipment.

HARPYs island wheelhouse means that almost the full 43' length, each side, is available for use.

We can organize Guesthouse & self-catering accommodation for you in Kinsale, Co. Cork.

Underwater SAR Services (Search and Recovery) with sidescan sonars and ROVs. Also Hydrographic survey services available.

Need Airport and Ferry pickup & return? Call us.

For complete package for individual person or groups of professional anglers, tourists, divers or surveyors, from point of arrival to point of return - we do it all. We want to help get the most from your visit to historic Kinsale.

HARPY heading out on an ANGLING or a WHALEWATCH or a WILDLIFE Tour trip.

Kinsale has been the winner of many EC tourism and environment prizes over past and recent years.

We are a proud member of the Irish Charter Skippers Association.

17-June-2024: Propellor of WW1 german u-boat UC-42 recovered to Kinsale by HARPY.

Tight lines!

Problems ahead...

Dec/25: On 12/Dec/2025 NETHERLANDS, FRANCE, GERMANY & POLAND (a minority EU grouping) voted away Ireland's HAGUE PREFERENCE MECHANISM, (a mechanism the EU promised IRELAND when we joined the EU they said would protect IRELAND's small, economically-fragile fishing fleet and fishing infrastructure, including fish processing plants, from economic shocks). This betrayal marks the introduction of crippling fish-quota cuts upon Ireland's fishing fleet that will be devastating for Irish coastal communities and fishers. Kinsale is just one such community.

These quota cuts are additional to recent large quotas "taken" from Ireland to appease the UK at Brexit-time so that other, powerful, EU states could access the UK fish stocks. These new cuts now imposed on Ireland painfully reminds us of the obvious - successive Irish Governments have been unable to bargain within the EU for fair access for Ireland to her own resources and ALSO that powerful minority groups make a mockery of so so-called EU democracy. Meanwhile, the huge fleets from other EU states are allowed overfish our stocks while Ireland (denied access to its own stocks in some cases like TUNA, etc.) is made to pay for the greedy self-interest of our so-called EU partners. THE EU IS FAILING IRELAND and her fishing industry and will do the same again to Irelands farmers if the MERCUSOR deal is passed.

Jan/2026: UPDATE! Mercusor was passed by the EU in January 2026 against Irelands wishes. So much for preserving the quality of Irish food or the alleged carcinogenic risks from imported south American beef.

Feb/2026: Matters have just got worse! We are now only allowed 3 pollack per person aboard angling charter boats! That is has com to this beggars the question to those behind the EU Common Fishery Policy - HOW have ye messed up so much that we have arrived at this point.