ILCA UK Chair blog #127
You will see our calendar starting to fill up. For Masters sailors, the 2025 SUZUKI ILCA MASTER EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS at Hayling Island in June is now open. This is a great chance for GBR sailors to sail a European Championship on home waters. If you are a competent club sailor, why not come along? Or maybe you have been out of sailing for a while, well its not too late to come to this! We have the ILCA UK Masters Nationals the weekend before and a Masters event in Parkstone in early May (both will open soon).
Last week I mentioned Our first two National Opens (formerly Qualifiers) are at WPNSA on 15/16 March and 22/23 March and these are now open for entry. These events are open meetings, run to a high-level, with sailors from competent club sailors to British Sailing Team members. They are a great opportunity to sail against the best and to learn and improve your skills. And they are open to volunteers (15/16) too and here (22/23)
I talked about motivations and aspirations for racing in Blog 122 and this seemed to resonate with some of you. That blog was also about dreams and targets and removing obstacles to those is important to achieving those. Then I mentioned ILCA equipment in Blog #125 – ILCA UK have an excellent video to help you rig your boat to a high level.
Finally two further ILCA UK videos to get your season going :
ILCA technique for upwind/downwind in light and heavy air
Snippets
2025 ILCA Handbook is now available online.
ILCA UK Events
Entries to National Open 1 (formerly qualifier) 1 and National Open 2
You can now renew your membership for 2025. Not a member yet? JOIN NOW
See our calendar - last winter training is available to book.
ILCA UK training - all remaining training for winter/spring is now open. BOOK here
Entries for the 2025 RYA Youth National Championships are now open
ILCA UK have two National Opens at WPNSA on 11/12 Oct and 18/19 Oct - the latter clashes with the U21s Europeans so discretionary points may apply for the qualification ladder but not for the first weekend (we moved from 25/26 Oct to 11/12 Oct to avoid a double clash).
Other news
ILCA UK Youth Winter Trophy at Datchet Water Sailing Club - ILCA 4 fleet report
ILCA UK Youth Winter Trophy at Datchet Water Sailing Club - ILCA 6 fleet report
The Los Angeles 2028 Olympic cycle will start in Mallorca
NI Sailing Team dominate Celtic Cup with clean sweep victory
Call to action: Abandoned Boats Changing Lives for Youth Sailors in St. Vincent and the Grenadines