ILCA UK Chair Blog #151
James Harle
Short blog this week as it feels like the start of the year with lots to do. Our Sailing sub-committee meet tonight followed by the main Committee next Monday with updates due on all our activities. As usual, it is a busy autumn with five National events planned in come months. First-up is our first National Open (formerly Qualifier) in Scotland for some time – at East Lothian on 20/21 September. We would really like to see as many entries as possible especially from the “north” and Scotland. These events are open to all competent club sailors - we would love to see as many as possible. Also if you are not a member, you can join for a reduced fee at this event for remainder of year. Then then have two National Opens at WPNSA on consecutive weeks (to help with logistics). Finally, we have our Inlands at Draycote in the West Midlands and the Masters Inlands at Grafham in Cambridgeshire.
Of course there are many other regattas across the country. In September alone I see Grands Prix in Thames Valley, East, Midlands, North, Lakeland / Borders and Scotland. We continue our Regional Youth Series in Lymington and Scotland. And our training program starts this weekend and continues all weekend. There’s Women’s training in Parkstone this month.
Regular readers of this blog know that the class in the UK is in robust health. But it is the same abroad. The 2025 ILCA 6 & ILCA 7 Masters World Championships take place in Italy this month and there are 455 entries with 28 countries in ILCA7 fleet alone. Yours truly is taking a rest but there are 18 sailors from UK.
Snippets
ILCA UK Events
You will see our calendar starting to fill up.
Other news
2025 ILCA UK National and Open Championships at Plas Heli Welsh National Sailing Academy
Here is Nationals video
2025 Suzuki Master European Championship
2025 ILCA UK Masters Nationals video
2025 ILCAUK Masters Nationals at Hayling Island Sailing Club - ILCA 6 report
2025 ILCAUK Masters Nationals at Hayling Island Sailing Club - ILCA 7 report
QM ILCA initiative has gone from zero to international in six months
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