ILCA UK Chair Blog #153
Short one today. Entries close this evening for our East Lothian National Open – our first in Scotland for some time. Sadly, I have a repetitive arm strain (too much working the mainsheet upwind at the Euro Masters in mid June ! ) that requires a couple of weeks rest so I can’t make it but it made think of all the places I have sailed an ILCA / Laser. Having been brought sailing in Dublin, that includes many clubs around Ireland. It also includes most continents – Worlds in Mississippi, La Rochelle, Sweden, Japan, Tenerife, Cape Town, Mexico, Perth and Adelaide as well regattas and training camps all over Europe and the rest of the world. That’s what a life of ILCA / Laser sailing brings you ! And in the last 30 years I have sailed in many clubs around the UK. And while I have been to Largs for Optimists, I don’t recall ever sailing an ILCA in Scotland so I am sorry to be missing that.
A message from James Hynes, Chair of our Sailing SC. We are keen on training up some more volunteer mark layers for our events. We will pair up those interested with experienced mark layers to understand how it all works. Please let Ellie in office know and she is pass on to James.
Also a message from Brett Lewis, our Safety Officer. The success of our class can clearly be seen in the number of sailors who regularly attend our National Opens specially in venues such as WPNSA and HISC. As we’ve previously said that none of this can happen without an army of volunteers to ensure we deliver these high quality events. As the class safety officer, I’m aware that some of the volunteer roles that we need to fill require an element of skill and knowledge around safety. With this in mind, we plan to run ILCA specific Safety Boat and PB2 courses at the same venues and weekends as our ILCA training weekends. More details on dates and locations will follow.
Snippets
ILCA UK Events
You will see our calendar starting to fill up.
Other news
ILCA Women's Coaching day at Parkstone Yacht Club
ILCA Thames Valley Series Grand Prix at Island Barn Reservoir Sailing Club
ILCA Northern Championship at Leigh & Lowton Sailing Club
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