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ILCA UK AGM 2024
2024 ILCA UK AGM will be held during the Nationals at WPNSA
15th August 2024
This year’s AGM will be held during the Nationals.
If you have ideas for the class and would like to help to implement them, please join the main committee or any subcommittee of your interest.
Committee meetings take place once a month over zoom and, in between, sub-committes and groups work on various projects.
The success of our class is thanks to those committed individuals that make things happen for the benefit of all.
Send us a line with what would you like to get involved with. Please email nominations or questions and ideas to office@ilca.uk
We are looking forward to achieving even more next year.
Be part of the ILCA UK Team!
UKLA AGM 2023
2023 UKLA AGM will be held during the Qualifier 4 at Paignton SC
16th September 2023
We opted for a hybrid meeting (in person and online) to give as many members a chance to participate as possible.
If you have ideas for the class and would like to help to implement them, please join the main committee or any subgroup of your interest.
Committee meetings take place once a month over zoom and, in between, sub-groups work on various projects.
The success of our class is thanks to those committed individuals that make things happen for the benefit of all.
Send us a line with what would you like to get involved with. Please email nominations or questions and ideas to office@ilca.uk
We are looking forward to achieving even more next year.
Be part of UKLA Team!
Masters News July
By UKLA
Masters Nationals have been and gone, but the season is not over!
Read about the Nationals below and plan ahead for the European event in the Autumn.
Masters Nationals 1-3rd July 2022
@Shaunroster
The Master European Championships
The Master European Championships for the ILCA 6 and ILCA 7 takes place at L'Escala, Spain 7-13 October 2022.
Racing takes place in Roses Bay, a favourite venue for the Masters, the town is located on the opposite side of the bay to Roses town.
First round entries close on Friday 15 July and we would encourage all those wishing to attend to register an application (no fee at the application stage).
Entries are unlimited and there will be a second round of entries which opens on 26 July so this is not the absolute deadline but it is helpful to the organisers if numbers can be established early (number of race courses, IROs, IJs etc).
See below for event support.
UKLA//ASC Performance Academy partnered to support event in L’Escala.
This support includes:
On the water support during the event on the 7th -13th October
Daily Briefing and Debriefings, including individual feedback and development points
£770 per sailor
7 days total
This package will be delivered by our expert team of ILCA Coaches and is open to all sailors.
This support does not include boat charter or sailor accommodation and you can book it from 15th July as well.
Nationals garments
As the nationals are looming, we have organised a yearly event garments!
T-shirts and hoodies in various colours are now on sale with an option to be delivered to the venue
UKLA AGM 2022
2022 UKLA AGM will be held during the National Championships at Hayling Island SC on 20th July 2022
The plan for the evening is a Curry Night at 6pm followed by daily prize giving and AGM.
As always, we welcome new members of the team so please do consider joining the team. Committee members work in small sub-groups depending on the area of interest/specialism and current projects and report progress at committee meetings which take place one evening a month over zoom.
You can also be part of various sub groups without being on the committee. If you have a few spare hours that you would like to dedicate to the class, let us know too!
We are looking for fresh ideas and parents/sailors that can help us achieve great things for our class.
We are all very friendly and dedicated and have sailor’s matters at heart.
Please email nominations to office@ilca.uk
Happy Holidays
The UKLA Team would like to wish all members, their families and friends Happy Holidays and Happy New Year.
We hope you enjoyed sailing with us this year and you are looking forward to more racing and training next year!
I would like to thank the committee who have devoted their time to the class and make things happen in the background.
We are very lucky to have an exceptionally knowledgeable and enthusiastic team that leads this fantastic class to successes.
I would also like to thank the sailors, parents, officials and all volunteers for their continuous support - the class could not function without you!
THANK YOU
From Ellie
AGM 2021 Agenda and reports
As notified earlier this month, the 2021 UKLA AGM will take place on 16th August 2021.
Please click below to see relevant documents ahead of the meeting:
Draft Minutes of the 2020 AGM
AGM Reports:
The UKLA Team is looking forward to welcoming you at the meeting.
UKLA AGM 2021
2021 UKLA AGM will be held during the National Championships in Weymouth on 16th August 2021.
The plan for the evening is a Curry Night at 6pm followed by daily prize giving and AGM with a prize draw.
Please look through the list of available posts and if you can commit to a virtual meeting one evening a month and work in smaller groups on various projects, please consider joining the team.
Our class is very busy and successful, because of the work that committee does in the background.
We are looking for fresh ideas and parents/sailors that can help us achieve great things for our class.
We are all very friendly and dedicated and have sailor’s matters at heart.
Please email nominations to office@ilca.uk
Stokes Bay Open and Masters Qualifier - Andrew Simpson Foundation fundraising evening
At the Stokes Bay event we will welcome representatives from the Andrew Simpson Foundation that will spend some time to tell us about the charity and the important work they do.
You will be able to donate on the day, or you can click or scan the QR code below
There is still time to enter - entries close at midnight tonight (16th June) - enter through the portal
Please also pre-book your Friday and Saturday meal through the portal to help the catering team with the numbers and organisation on the day.
Friday night choices:
- Breaded cod fillet with chips and minted mushy peas
- Chicken/bacon lattice with crispy potatoes & coleslaw
- Spinach/leek lattice with crispy potatoes & coleslaw
- Loaded veg quiche with potatoes and salad
Saturday night:
Mexican themed meal: Meat or vegetarian burrito with spicy rice, avocado salad, salsa and tortilla chips.
UKLA South Coast Anniversary Open Regatta - 8/9 May 2021 - WPNSA
Just over a week to go until our first UKLA run event this year at WPNSA. The forecast is currently looking good, if you haven’t entered yet then please don’t wait.
The ILCA 4s and ILCA 7s will race on the Saturday and the ILCA 6s on Sunday. First race each day starting at 11:30am. 3 races per fleet.
Please note the change to the NORs - Amendment One deleting section 4.9 (Competitors may only enter for one day with one Rig).
Event registration will be done online, it will be the sailor’s responsibility to keep their details up to date (including sail number changes etc) via our new event management system (Sailing Club Manager).
You should have used it to renew your membership and enter this event with.
Portal can be found here
Good luck from the UKLA team
Letter from EurILCA
Members.
Please read the below EurILCA letter:
“Dear District officer,
As you may know, in response to new requirements under World Sailing’s Olympic Equipment Policy, our class has recently welcomed six new builders of class-legal equipment. Due to existing trademark restrictions, these builders are selling new boats, sails and other gear under the ILCA brand name.
Although no one wanted to see this change, it is an inevitable result of opening the market to new builders and has allowed our Class to remain in the Olympic Games for both men and women. Overall, this transition to an open and competitive builder environment will be a huge boost to our class and EurILCA is excited about the future.
Although the Class’s legal representatives advise the Class maintains a strong position with respect to the use of the LASER brand and the sunburst logo, EurILCA is committed to spending its time and money on promoting great events and bringing more people into our sport rather than engaging in legal disputes.
The transition to ILCA is already well underway with increasing numbers of ILCA branded boats and sails appearing across Europe. Again, this transition was not our first choice but, in the end, it proved to be inevitable. In order to avoid any unnecessary disputes over trademarks, EurILCA is now changing over from the old names and sunburst logo to the new ILCA name and logo for all our events. In addition, EurILCA has started an immediate review of the website, logos, Notice of Race(s) and other communications to remove the sunburst logo and word Laser ahead of the forthcoming season. This should become apparent over the coming weeks.
We expect ILCA to issue further guidance on this topic in the near future along with advice for naming events and proper usage of the ILCA name and logo on your District website and documents. EurILCA encourages you all to follow our lead for the transition to the ILCA brand now and take proactive steps. Velum Limited is using the sunburst logo and Laser name for its boats and the breakaway class, The Laser Class. Our combined transition will help to identify us, the World Sailing recognised Olympic single-hander and to distinguish us from the new non-class legal boats.
2021 also marks the 50th anniversary for the ILCA Class Association. The boat was designed in 1969 with factory production in 1970 and the International Laser Class Association founded in 1971. Over the years our boat has been named the TGIF, the Weekender, the Laser and now the ILCA. Rebranding in line with the 50th anniversary will accelerate our transition and growth as we start to see a way forward from Covid-19. Look for more news to follow on the anniversary celebrations. The EurILCA team is looking forward to the opportunities ahead and we hope to see you all out on the water soon.
Kind regards,
The EurILCA team
2021 ILCA Under-21 World Championships
Applications for entry for the following ILCA World Championship will be accepted beginning Wednesday, 17 March 2021:
2021 ILCA Under-21 World Championships
For the above event, the deadline for receiving PAID applications for initial allocation of places is 29 April 2021 at 23:59 Central US Time.
You are encouraged to complete an entry application as soon as possible after it becomes available. Only applications received by the application closing date are eligible for allocated places. Late applications will be accepted after the initial round of Entry offers.
Information about all ILCA Laser World Championships and access to applications is available through the ILCA events page https://sailing.laserinternational.org/
Best regards,
The ILCA Team
International Laser Class Association
Website: http://www.laserinternational.org
UKLA Qualifier Stokes Bay
The Stokes Bay Qualifier scheduled for the beginning of March has regrettably been cancelled due to the restrictions the government has placed on us by Covid-19.
The other 2 Qualifiers in March at WPNSA are currently under review and a decision on them will be made after the government’s update on the easing of lockdown in mid-February.
We are currently trying hard to organise events (not qualifiers) to replace those that have been lost. We hope to bring you news on them as soon as decisions have been made.
For those seeking to qualify for ILCA/EurILCA events, please review the Qualification Documents posted on there UKLA website. The Committee introduced more flexibility to Qualification than in the past and there are instructions on how to seek consideration for Average Points or Discretion when appropriate.
UKLA Team
2021 is HERE
Welcome to 2021!
As most of us could not see the end of 2020 any quicker, we prepped ourselves for 2021 with certain expectations that it could only get better!
And then…
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Yes. I was quite speechless when the new lockdown restrictions were announced and crashed my hopes….
HOWEVER, the only way out of this is to move forward, and so the entire committee yet again rolled their sleeves and continued to plan and improve so that we can make the best out of the situation we are in.
Our Sailing Secretary Keith Videlo together with our PRO Paul Jackson and other team members are working in the background preparing for the season kick off. We want to be ready for when the situation improves and government gives us a green light for normality to start resuming. We hope to run as many events listed in the calendar as possible, but safety of all comes first, so lets be patient.
Apart from the qualifiers and nationals, we are getting ready for training and Grand Prix Circuits to resume and are very much looking forward to welcoming as many of you as possible at Super Grand Prix Events. Further details from Tony can be found here.
Our head of Media and Comms - Guy Noble also has been extremely busy since his day one. Guy has come with en exciting vision to bring UKLA archives into the daylight and to continue to capture UKLA’s history in the making. You may have wondered what happened to Gybe? Gybe took a break after our lovely editor Alison moved on to another project and Guy will be bringing it back to you in a newly redesigned format as a Year Book. All singing and dancing big thanks go to Guy for devoting his time to this project which should be landing on your doorstep very soon.
I hope you are using your lockdown wisely and working on your fitness so that you can hike that extra harder when you are reunited with your boat.
Ellie
Draycote Water Sailing Club Laser Performance supported Open Meeting 8th August 2020
by Richard Mason
Well… the day came when the first open meeting had happened and what a day it was! Sunshine, 25 degrees Celsius with big blue sky and 20 mph of wind. Driving to Draycote water sailing club with the feeling of what will it be like after watching and reading all the videos and procedures. We were met but the normal professionalism and organisation the club has always had. Rigging away and getting ready for 4 races back to back with just under 40 boats.
The race team headed out and set a great inner / outer course with square start lines all day. Racing started on time with the ILCA 7/Standard fleet having no recalls all day and some great racing. The ILCA 6/Radial and ILCA 4/4.7 fleet had to spoil things by having one recall then got sorted and had an excellent days racing.
The ILCA 6/Standard rigs were won by Joe Scurrah from Carsington SC taking overall first, followed by Marcellus Pryor and sailing legend Steve Irish from the home club in second and third. There were quite a few swimming on the run from time to time but cooling of in the water in the heat was fun too.
The ILCA 7/Radials had some much closer racing with Alister Brown from Great Moor SC in first overall, followed by Dan Keeran from Tamworth SC and George Fareday ELSC only being beaten into third on discard. Simon Gadsby came in forth from NCSC. There were a few girls in the ILCA 6/Radial fleet and Iris Singleton from DWSC was first girl in the fleet.
There were two ILCA 4/4.7 rigs on the water; Alice Davis DWSC went on to beat Aimee Bray from Banbury SC. Well done girls great to see you enjoying the racing.
I think I speak for everyone by saying a huge THANK YOU to everyone involved in making this happen. Marcellus Pryor for sorting the event out (thanks loads), the PRO Matt Rowley and his support team Jon Hughes, Andy Abbis, Mike Powell and two juniors Ted and Jess who are starting racing and helped out (soon to be in laser we hope) and of course Dave Rowe. Well done everyone, you were first class!
Full results can be found here
Hope to see you all at another event soon
Runners & Riders ILCA 4/4.7 at the UKLA 2020 Nationals
by Barney Procter and Guy Noble
Will the British ILCA4 sailors make it back from the European Championship in Vilamoura to compete in the 2020 UKLA Nationals?
For the lucky few who managed to get away to train or compete it’s not without risks. There is a chance the government will take Portugal off the list of countries from which returnees will have to quarantine on Thursday – fingers crossed.
Putting the prospects of the travellers to one side, who can we expect to do well in the ILCA4 fleet at the UKLA Nationals this year? Or may be this isn’t the right question…. With the smaller rig the ILCA4 is a great entry point for those aspiring to compete at a high level but it also must be remembered that sailing is great fun and these guys should be having a blast. Some will have that burning ambition to win clearly established by a very young age, others will be looking to their racing for different rewards. For many it's the camaraderie, just meeting up with mates and doing something enjoyable – this may well morph into a passion but speaking as a master sailing is just great fun and there is no reason why it shouldn’t be a life long pastime.
With the ILCA7 (full rig) ILCA6 (Radial) ILCA4 (4.7) covering so many age groups and abilities it’s hardly surprising that the 200 boat limit (50 for the ILCA4) for the UKLA 2020 National Championships was sold out within hours although UKLA are still trying to accommodate more entries. Previous pre regatta write-ups have covered Masters entrants and the senior ILCA7 fleet and the ILCA6 will follow but here we are looking at the ICLA4 fleet.
2020 has been a challenging year for all sailors, but possibly no more so than for the 4.7 Laser fleet. The year started with the hand warming prospect of Europeans over Easter in Vilamoura, followed by the Worlds in Lake Garda, and then topped off with a pasty munching Nationals in Marazion. A competitive autumn and spring series, spiced up with some Radial returnees keen to compete at these wonderful venues, led to great racing. The highlight being Sunderland, which proved to be a world class venue with a grandstand view for those armchair sailors.
The Europeans in Vilamoura has belatedly gone ahead, which will make attendance of the UK Nationals challenging for Anaya Morris, Carys Atwell, Coco Barrett, Dru Townsend, Freddie Howarth, Jack Graham-Troll, Max Steel and Oliver Allen-Wilcox. We wish them all great success and thank them for carrying the flag for us.
Honor Procter
Many of the remaining 2019 GBR Squaddies have moved up to the Radial Fleet, leaving Honor Procter and Oliver Woodley and a handful of others to welcome the new cohort. After a summer of cliff jumping and paddle-boarding, Honor is physically up to the task if a bit rusty. She’s looking forward to competing against old friends and making new ones, which is the key point of a national championships. That said, no quarter will be given, so all must be on their mettle.
This leaves the field open to a new wave of challengers that will be looking to stamp their authority.
Many of these sailors moving up from other classes, having been frustrated by cancelled competitions, so will be keen to exhibit their talents. Not least amongst these are Arwen Fflur fresh from the Optimist, a determined young lady with great enthusiasm and a ready smile, and Henry Koe, robbed of staking his claim on the Topper fleet, is a young gentleman but deadly on the start line... watch out! We look forward to some gripping family rivalries between the Hackers “battle of the sexes” and the Tylecote brothers, who have some unfinished business.
It’s great to see Wales with a strong representation of seven competitors, possibly the largest Welsh team for a generation, which is a testament to the hard work of Performance Managers Paul Simes and Sarah McGovern.
Weymouth is a fantastic venue, which has enough variety to test the best of sailors but with the convenience of great ashore facilities.
The 14-day forecast suggests some changeable weather, which will provide plenty of challenges for all. If your tactics are not working out, a great sailor once said his secret was to “go left on the first beat, right on every other… and then sail faster than everyone else… simples”.
The week is being sponsored by several great companies that provide valuable services to the sailors and each day of racing will have a title sponsor.
UKLA is grateful to Ovington Boats Sailingfast Sailboats.co.uk Southeast Sailboats Noble Marine for their support.
UKLA AGM 2020 Notice
This year’s AGM is held a bit later as we were hoping for the covid situation to stabilise. So far, we are planning for the meeting to be online only via Zoom platform, however should Government restriction ease and it will be deemed safe to do so, we will conside a “real” meeting. This is to be confirmed closer to date.
INTERNATIONAL UKLA ASSOCIATION - 48th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Dear members -
Notice is hereby given that the 2020 Annual General Meeting of the International Laser UK Class Association will be held online via Zoom platform, on Saturday, 26th September 2020 at 7.00 p.m. BST.
Meeting link can be found here
To date, the following officers offered themselves for re-election and further nominations have been received:
Nominations for officers duly proposed by and seconded by a full member may be submitted in writing along with the nominee’s consent to office@laser.org.uk by Sunday 29th August 2020.
Notice of any other proper business must also be given by that time.
Progress Report on New Class Builders
JUNE 12, 2020
In a previous article, ILCA outlined the new requirements mandated in World Sailing’s Olympic Equipment Policy for allowing new builders access to markets for Olympic sailing equipment. This article will attempt to summarize the new procedures put in place by ILCA and give a brief status report on the ongoing process to bring on new manufacturers.
In response to concerns over European Union antitrust law, World Sailing has adopted a new Olympic Equipment Policy for its Olympic classes beginning with the 2024 Olympics. Generally, the policy mandates that all Olympic classes allow interested and qualified manufacturers of boats and equipment to gain access to the market through an open process. Recognizing the importance of the 4-year Olympic cycle the idea is that this process occurs early enough to insure equipment from new manufacturers to be universally available well in advance of the Olympic games.
World Sailing’s policy is general, it applies to manufacturers of boats and related equipment such as foils, spars and sails. Obviously, this is a big change for ILCA so the approach has been to first tackle bringing on the new builders (hull manufacturers) and then follow in the coming months to opening to parts manufacturers. More detail will come on that in the future.
It should be pointed out that of the current Olympic classes, ours is the most impacted by this new policy as our class sees the most sales of boats and equipment worldwide each year. This also means our class is the most visible in World Sailing’s efforts to comply with EU antitrust law.
The actual process for opening to new builders has been described in detail in a previous article. The process can be generally summarized as falling into four main Stages:
1. Initial Application – Open to any applicant and reviewed on broad criteria to ensure that the applicant is reasonably likely to be able to meet the detailed requirements and understand fully what is involved in the process.
2. Detailed Submission – All applicants who were successful in passing the first Stage were then invited to submit a fully detailed application covering a full range of information on experience, personnel, manufacturing capability and facilities, marketing experience, a business plan etc. During this process applicants were required to sign non-disclosure agreements and were then provided with full information on all the technical and contractual requirements needed to become a class builder.
3. Pre-Production Samples – If the applicant is successful in satisfying the requirements of the detailed review they are then granted provisional builder status. This allows them to purchase the required moulds etc. from the class and set up for initial production. They are then required to produce 10 hulls as a final approval criterion. If they successfully meet all the construction manual requirements in producing the 10 boats they will then be granted full class builder status.
4. Ongoing Review – All new builders will be subject to regular checks by the class and World Sailing to ensure that they continue to fully meet the requirements of the class construction manual and the World Sailing Olympic agreement.
At the heart of this process is the principle that has underpinned the success of the class for nearly 50 years: that every boat built by any manufacturer is as identical as possible to the boats from other manufacturers, and that it is the sailor who determines the results of any race, not the equipment. ILCA is taking this very seriously and, as previously reported, has recently significantly augmented its technical staff – both to help confirm new builders as they work through the process but, more important, to ensure ongoing compliance with the build manual.
The process is now well underway. Out of over 30 initial applications, seven builders were initially offered the opportunity to become new class builders after Stage 2, as detailed in a previous press article, subject to their signing the required contracts and completing the necessary technical approvals and construction of test boats. To date six of these have elected to proceed and are now in Stage 3. All six are commencing preparations to manufacture boats. A small number of additional builders are still engaged in Stage 2 of the process and may be added to the list of builders over the next few months.
Of the 6 builders currently proceeding three, Ovington, Devoti and Nautivela, have received their moulds while the other three, Rio Tecna, Element 6 Evolution and Zou Inter Marine, have moulds in transport and should receive them in the coming weeks. All three of the European builders have been impacted by issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic and, obviously this has slowed their progress towards becoming approved builders. Still, both Ovington and Devoti have been able to start work on producing their first test boats with Nautivela now also in making progress. Depending on how soon each can get back to full operation they could be producing their first new boats for sale within a couple of months – currently projecting a summer timeline. It is anticipated that the rest of the builders could be producing boats in the early fall. Once again, it needs to be stressed that any predictions on when new boats will become available will depend critically on further impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Once the new builders have completed the approval process and are in full production the ILCA Technical Team will begin the process of bringing on new manufacturers of foils, spars and sails. In addition, they will begin the process of ensuring ongoing compliance with the build manual.
It is important to again stress that ILCA is fully committed to maintaining the strict one-design nature of the class – that all existing boats can compete side-by-side with boats from new builders in tests of sailor against sailor, not equipment against equipment – and, critically, at the cheapest price possible. The first step in that process is for the ILCA Technical Team to work with all of the builders – new and legacy – to ensure strict compliance with the build manual. After that the team will work to make sure of ongoing compliance – through regular inspections of the manufacturers, development of in-field spot tests of boats and equipment and sailor feedback. The one-design principle is critical to our class and its long term future and the class aims to make this the centerpiece as we move forward with new manufacturers.
Obviously, this compliance comes with a cost and ILCA has developed a plan for funding this oversight in a manner which should minimally impact the price of boats and equipment. Future articles will outline this plan in more detail and will also look at the proposed procedure for ensuring compliance with the build manual and maintaining the strict one-design nature of the boats.
2020 - Annual General Meeting
This year’s 48th Annual General Meeting was meant to be held at the Nationals event at Mounts Bay.
Unfortunately, the current COVID 19 restrictions have meant we have had to cancel this event. We are now actively looking at alternative options to enable the 2020 Annual General Meeting and voting process to take place.
The date and format of the AGM is yet to be determined – watch this space. We will communicate via the news item on the website and other channels once details are confirmed.
In the meantime, if you would like to be become part of the team as a committee member or as a non-committee member, we would love to hear from you contact page
The VR-Sport.tv and VR Super Store Spring e-National Championships
This past long weekend saw the Spring e-Nationals and finals of the popular May Laser Lockdown Ladder Series.
After four weeks of Lockdown virtual e-Sailing, Mike O’Donovan (Laser Standard) was on the top of the leaderboard with Max Steele and Keijiro Kikkawa (both from the 4.7 fleet) equal on points in second place, with Sam Whaley (Laser Standard), Scott Forbes (Laser Radial) and Arthur Farley (Laser Radial) not far behind.
The Spring e-Nationals and class selection finals took place at the glorious virtual venue of Cowes, and as always consisted of a monohull, catamaran, and a double hander. All three days had stunning weather, although the virtual world seemed to be a little less sunny and more shifty than the real world, but still ‘champagne’ sailing conditions.
Hot off the heels of his impressive performance at the Battle of the Splashes between GBR and Australia, Sam Whaley also pulled out the stops at the Laser e-Nationals, taking the gold bib at the end of the first day, ahead of Arthur Farley in second and Max Steele in third, with Mike O’Donovan achieving fourth placing. Sam continued his good form and held onto the yellow bib after day 2, ahead of George Sunderland (Standard) in second, Arthur Farley in third with Tim Evans from the Laser 4.7 fleet in fourth.
It was therefore all to race for going into the final day, especially to secure the class selection at the RYA’s Class e-Championships. On the final day, with some tactical wizardry and understanding of the virtual sailing ruleset, Arthur Farley pipped Sam Whaley into second. George Sunderland pulled out another strong performance in third place with Mike O’Donovan again achieving fourth.
Overall, this meant that Sam Whaley (Laser Standard) won the Spring e-Nationals with Arthur Farley (Laser Radial) in second place, and George Sunderland (Laser Standard) taking Bronze. Max Steele (first Laser 4.7) came in 4th place, ahead of Mike O’Donovan (Laser Standard) in 5th. Fellow Scott, Lorna Drummond (Laser Radial) was the first lady, in a very strong 6th place overall.
However, when looking at the performance over the whole of the Laser Lockdown Ladder Series, Mike O’Donovan ended a mere one point ahead of Sam Whaley in second. Max Steele (Laser 4.7’s) ended in third place overall, just two points ahead of Arthur Farley (first Radial) in 4th place.
This means that, although Sam Whaley is crowned our Spring e-National Champion, Mike O’Donovan has won the selection series to represent the Laser Standard class at the RYA Class e-Championships; with Arthur Farley winning the selection series to represent the Laser Radial Class and Max Steele the Laser 4.7’s.
Given how the world has become increasingly virtual, it is fitting that we have secured prizes generously sponsored by VRsport TV and VR Super Store
Check out the Sponsor Corner of what other deals are avaiable to UKLA members