This month features TWO Super Grand Prix events! In the North St Mary’s Loch Super Grand Prix is on the 29/30 May with Head Coach Lewis Smith and in the South the Queen Mary Super Grand Prix is on 22/23 May.

NB- The UKLA will be sponsoring the Super Grand Prix in 2021 so you’ll get top quality coaching and racing for a fraction of the usual cost!

Don’t forget you must be a member of the UKLA to take part in a Super Grand Prix.

SGP SOUTH

Entries opened last week for the Southern Super Grand Prix at Queen Mary SC event on 22/23 May. Within hours the coaching day was sold out and there are now 76 boats entered for the Sunday racing across all 3 fleets.

As well as the UKLA subsidising the coaching costs we are very excited to have 4 sponsors involved - Noble Marine, Ovington, Sailingfast and Southeast Sailboats. Thank you to all our sponsors.

If you wish to order food on the Saturday, it is limited to 30 due to Covid restrictions and bookable here:

https://www.queenmary.org.uk/sailing/club-fleets/laser-fleet/ Scroll down and you will see the Chicken Chasseur or Veggie option. Strictly bookable online and we are limiting numbers to 30. Plus LIVE music!

Following the success of our Super Grand Prix events in 2019 we are hoping to continue the experience in 2021 (Covid permitting!) For this special Golden Anniversary year the UKLA is planning to fund some of the coaching costs, including paying for a coach on the Sunday. The Sunday coaching would be for all racers- briefings/de briefings and on the water support. We want to give something back to our valued members, and it therefore goes without saying that to take part in a SGP you must be a UKLA member!

SGP NORTH

St Mary’s Loch Sailing Club lies in the heart of the Scottish Borders, 40 mins from J15 of the M74 and 45 minutes south of Edinburgh. The club sits within one of Scotland’s most picturesque settings but with five valleys surrounding the loch, the weather can generate some challenging sailing conditions.

In 2021, StMLSC is celebrating its 60th year. It is a family friendly club with a long history of racing and training, fantastic facilities and a much-improved launching beach. The club has large grounds and can offer camping for visitors to the regatta. So please come and join in our diamond anniversary, feel free to camp and enjoy perhaps the most rural setting of all the UK’s sailing clubs. And bring a bottle of something to toast what should be a fun, challenging but above all an enjoyable event.

The Super Grand Prix (SGP) is a fun weekend event consisting of top quality coaching, evening social and competitive racing. Developed to encourage club sailors to take the first steps to an open meeting, and provide a bigger, more sociable event for everyone.

Primarily aimed at club sailors, but not exclusively so, valuing diversity in the fleet, encouraging all ages, gender and rigs to come together to celebrate everything that is the ILCA, with the emphasis on fun. Helping to grow and sustain a healthy club base across the regions, building confidence to take an active part, create ambassadors, whilst helping sailors develop skills and ability to get the most out of ILCA sailing.

There are currently three broad regions - South, Midlands and North.

SUPER GRAND PRIX 2021

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