ILCA UK Chair Blog #137
Lotte Johnson
British Sailing Team are in action at the World Championships in China, which started today. Follow the racing including live tracking and results on Event website. Good luck to sailors taking part.
Update on Women’s Training from Jonathan Stirling
The ILCA Women’s Coaching Programme is going great guns. Last week our sponsor Wildwind ran their first ever Women’s ILCA Clinic coached by NED International Maartje van Dam. They’ll be a write up in Y&Y but ‘best week ever’ was the verdict of one experienced ILCA sailor.
Next weekend Ellie Cumpsty is delivering the Programme at King George SC with complementary club racing on the Sunday.
Booking is now live for the ILCA Women’s Programme at WPNSA on 31st May hosted by the Andrew Simpson Performance Academy and coached by.George Povall, Molly Sacker and Coco Barrett. This is a fantastic opportunity for our women sailors to brush up their sea sailing ahead of the summer’s events. We will be running another event at Stokes Bay on 26th July - details to follow - and we are planning to extend to at least two other venues over the season to cover more of the country.
And booking is now open for the fantastic ILCA Women’s Regatta at Rutland Water SC over the weekend of 28th/29th June.
Snippets
Keep an eye on the ILCA Calendar for details as these sessions sell out quickly.
2025 Women’s Regatta at Rutland will open for entries this Friday! (9th May)
You will see our calendar starting to fill up.
Finally I was asked about the entry list for the British Nationals at Parkstone in 1982 - well here you go
PS Are you interested in Team Racing - Eurilca has a European Championship and are inviting entries from ILCA UK? See here
2025 ILCA Handbook is now available online.
ILCA UK Events
Entries to Masters Nationals
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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). Masters Inlands date is confimred for 25/26 Oct.
Other news
2025 ILCA7 Masters Spring Qualifier at Parkstone Yacht Club
2025 ILCA6 Masters Spring Qualifier at Parkstone Yacht Club
ILCA Midland Grand Prix at Attenborough Sailing Club
2025 ILCA UK National Open 2 at the WPNSA - ILCA 4 fleet report
2025 ILCA UK National Open 2 at the WPNSA - ILCA 6 fleet report
2025 ILCA UK National Open 2 at the WPNSA - ILCA 7 fleet report
Video of National Open 2
Also we also had three really good write-ups from that first weekend:
2025 ILCA UK National Open 1 at the WPNSA - ILCA 7 fleet report
2025 ILCA UK National Open 1 at the WPNSA - ILCA 4 fleet report
2025 ILCA UK National Open 1 at the WPNSA- ILCA 6 fleet report
National Open 1 video Here it is.
Finally have you seen the tracking? Here are the links - ILCA UK National Open 1 ILCA UK National Open 2 James Foster did a nice debriefing of the racing using the tracking data, see here. ILCA7 briefing. ILCA4 briefing.
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