ILCA UK Chair Blog #164
ILCA UK is delighted to announce an expansion of our Regional Youth Series. The Youth Series was set-up to provide a link between the ILCA UK Nationals Opens and club racings / local regattas, by providing high quality racing in a consistent format in each region. My thanks to Mike Powell, our Youth officer, and before that Roger Hakes, and the rest of the Youth sub-committee.
Mike Powell, says:
Building on the success of the 2025 Series, we are now launching our 2026 Regional Youth Series. We have tweaked the format slightly so to increase the accessibility of our youth events at a regional level. The format is 5 separate regional series across the UK with 4 events per region/series taking place at a variety of venues. More detail, including the Notification of Series (Dates/Venues etc), is now available on our ILCA Youth Webpage.
2025 saw the launch of the ILCA Youth Series visiting 8 different clubs across England, Scotland & Wales where we had an amazing 230 different sailors attending the events!
These events delivered very close racing in a mixture of conditions in coastal and inland locations. Thankyou to everyone that took part and to all the volunteers/clubs for making the Youth series a success. A special mention to our series sponsor, Harken who have supported us through all the events; Thankyou. The results for the 2025 Youth Series have now been published. We have contacted our winners across the 3 fleets and arranged for prize giving to take place at the upcoming RYA Dinghy Show for sailors that can attend or at the National Open events in March for sailors who are unable to attend the Dinghy Show.
The ILCA UK calendar is starting to take shape so you can start planning the season ahead.
Winter training 2025/2026
Most of our remaining winter programme is available for booking - look through the training calendar and find something for your self in your region
Events 2026
National Opens
National Open 1 - Warsash SC - 14/15 March 2026
National Open 2 - WPNSA - 21/22 March 2026
National Open 3 - WPNSA 28/29 March 2026
Skills Week
ILCA Skills Week 2026 WPNSA - 15/20 August 2026 (Provisional - may move by one day)
National & Open Championships
Unfortunately, due to clashes with international regattas, we could not accept dates offered by the Hayling Island Sailing Club to host our nationals in 2026. We therefore confirmed that the 2026 Nationals will be held in JULY at WPNSA. He hope to go back to HISC soon!
ILCA UK Open & National Championships 2026 WPNSA - 22-28th July 2026
Masters events (over 30)
Introduction to Masters sailing - ILCA UK NEW Masters rep Gareth Humphrey
Master Series WPNSA - 23-24th May 2026
Masters National Championships Parkstone YC - 3-5 July 2026
Masters Inland Championships Draycote Water SC - 7-8 November 2026
Snippets
Youth World Championships 2026 - Notice of Selection
In case you are interested, here is a link to my 2nd message as ILCA President.