UKLA Chair blog #9
September and through to the weekend just finished was an incredibly busy month for ILCA sailors and the UKLA. As well as UKLA open regional training, we had four major open meetings (three main Qualifiers and one Masters Qualifier). I have also heard reports of strong turnouts at clubs around the country as well as well-attended open meetings. ILCA sailing and the UKLA are vibrant with strong numbers. But we are not sitting back, with the UKLA Committee in the process of agreeing our strategic initiatives for the year ahead, which we would like to share with the class in due course. We are also meeting this week to discuss your feedback on the Nationals with recommendations.
Looking ahead, this weekend we have a Super Grand-prix on 8th/9th Oct at Burton Sailing Club with tickets still available until the 5th. There are several UKLA training events and various open meetings in our calendar for October and beyond on www.ilca.uk. We also have quite a few masters heading off to the Europeans in Spain and then at the start of November is the ever-popular inlands at Grafham. With a short sail to the racing area and tactical lake conditions, I would encourage those who don’t often attend our Qualifiers to come along.
Thanks to those who offered their time in response to last week’s blog – we had a great response with around ten offers of help!
Finally, today we are launching a WhatsApp Group for ILCA class captains in clubs across the UK to allow us to better communicate with each other. If you are a class captain, please click link contained within the email to join the group or please feel free to send on to others who are ILCA Class Captains.
All the best
Mark
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