ILCA GBR

The ILCA6 Women’s World Championships start tomorrow in Dublin Bay. Six GBR ILCA6 sailors will be competing.

During the past week, the charter boats in Dún Laoghaire have transitioned from ILCA7s to ILCA6 and the women have been able to practice in Dublin Bay during the day and enjoy the craic of Irish hospitality in the evenings - Hannah even joined in the folk music scene 🎶
Good luck to all the competitors!

Follow their progress here:
https://2026ilca6women.ilca-worlds.org/

📸British Sailing Team
📸Sailing Lens

GBR ILCA7 sailors put in fantastic performances at their World Championships in Dublin Bay last week. Another year with 3 GBR in the top 🔟, with a fabulous display of consistency. All credit to the talented sailors and their support team. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

🥉Micky Beckett
5️⃣ Elliot Hanson
9️⃣ Fin Dickinson
38 Alistair Brown
39 Arthur Farley
84 James Foster
91 Kai Wolgram
94 Sam Whaley
138 James Percival-Cooke

https://2026ilca7men.ilca-worlds.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2026/08/FINAL-Results-Men.html

The charter boats have now been converted into ILCA6 for the Women’s World Championships starting next week.

The scoring for this event is another new trial system. It’s complicated and SI 18 needs careful reading to understand how it works. I “think” it works as per this graphic, but this is based off the Provisional Results and is not the official….. 🤔

The event will publish what is the official version in due course…..

🇬🇧 Elliot Hanson leads the ILCA 7 World Championship after 11 races

A strong day for the British sailors in Dun Laoghaire sees Elliot Hanson move into the overall lead of the 2026 ILCA 7 Men’s World Championship.

With 11 races completed and two discards:

🥇 Elliot Hanson — 1st | 62 pts
🥉 Michael Beckett — 3rd | 65 pts
6️⃣ Finley Dickinson — 6th | 83 pts

Elliot Hanson holds a two-point advantage over Singapore’s Ryan Lo, with fellow sailor Micky Beckett just three points behind. Fin Dickinson is also well placed in 6th, giving GBR three sailors inside the top six going into tomorrow’s Medal Race Series.

🇬🇧 Arthur Farley and Alastair Brown are also racing in the Gold Fleet as the championship moves towards its conclusion.

Provisional standings after 11 races | 29 August 2026

A fantastic position for the GBR team heading into the closing stages. 🇬🇧⛵️

https://www.sailwave.com/results/2026_ILCA_Men_Worlds.htm

DunLaoghaire

ILCA7 World Championships
Day 4 photos of the GBR ILCA sailors.

Two days down for the ILCA7 World Championships in Dun Laoghaire.

The cream is already rising to the top, but the hard work put into the preliminary series of 5 races only counts the overall result going forward into the Final Series.

So tomorrow racing is split into Gold/Silver/Bronze fleets etc.

https://www.sailwave.com/results/2026_ILCA_Men_Worlds.htm

Racing got underway today at the 2026 ILCA 7 Men’s World Championship in Dún Laoghaire, with the first three races of the qualifying series completed.
A partly sunny start to the day with 6–7 knots of wind and small waves, the breeze built to around 8 knots under cloudy skies, before rising further to 10–11 knots in the late afternoon with waves building to around a metre and light rain.

Follow the GBR sailors progress here:
https://www.sailwave.com/results/2026_ILCA_Men_Worlds.htm

The San Pedro Olympic Classes Regatta for the ILCA7 held two medal races in near perfect conditions inside Los Angeles Port to conclude another Sailing Grand Slam event.

Micky Beckett finished 7th & 1st to hold onto🥉.
Elliot Hanson finished 2nd & 4th to end the week in 6️⃣.

https://register.sanpedroocr.org/en/default/races/race

The sailors return to the UK now to prepare for the World Championships in Dublin Bay in September.

The San Pedro Olympic Classes Regatta for the ILCA6♦️held two medal races in near perfect conditions inside Los Angeles Port to conclude another Sailing Grand Slam event.

Hannah Snellgrove finished 8th & 3rd to hold onto an impressive🥇overall.
Matilda Nicholls finished 7th & 2nd to move up to 8️⃣ overall.

https://register.sanpedroocr.org/en/default/races/race

The sailors return to the UK now to prepare for the World Championships in Dublin Bay in September.

This evening is the Finals Medal Racing for the top 10 sailors in the Sailing Grand Slam Olympic Classes Regatta on the LA28 Olympic waters of San Pedro. GBR will have 4 sailors competing; Hannah, Matilda, Micky & Elliot.

Winds have varied, but on the whole it has been windy power sailing conditions on relatively flat water with the right being favoured near the Port of Los Angeles.

The event has been trialling the Vakaros RaceSense system, an electronic system for immediate monitoring of OCS, which has resulted in far fewer recalls than is normally seen. It also has the benefit of live tracking for spectators.

Each class will sail 2 Finals Races, the overall scores from the week’s racing will be condensed for the Finals per SI 7.1.7:
The top 10 boats assigned to compete in the Finals will have their Qualification Series score adjusted as follows:
a) When the scoring difference between two consecutive boats is greater than 9 points, the
score of the lower-placed boat will be reduced so that the difference with the boat ahead of her is 9 points.
b) When the scoring difference between two consecutive boats is less than or equal to 9 points
and the score of the boat ahead has been changed, the points difference is maintained by adjusting the lower placed boat’s score.
c) If after applying SI 7.1.7 (a) and (b) the score of any boat is greater than 18 points more than the score of the boat in third place, the score of such a boat will be changed so that the difference is 18 points.
d) If after applying SI 7.1.7(a) to (c) there is a tie between two or more boats, it shall be broken by their rank in the Qualification Series.

The ILCA6 start at 22:30, the ILCA7 at 23:30 (BST) Follow the Finals Medal Racing here:
ILCA 6 Gold:
https://player.vakaros.com/watch/TMEJS1RdjguSQkJcFdsZ/ILCA%206%20Gold
ILCA 7 Gold:
https://player.vakaros.com/watch/TMEJS1RdjguSQkJcFdsZ/ILCA%207%20Gold

Standings after the Qualifier Racing:
ILCA6♦️
🥇Hannah Snellgrove
🔟 Matilda Nicholls
15 Daisy Collingridge
ILCA7
🥉Micky Beckett
7️⃣ Elliot Hanson
19 Fin Dickinson

Results:
https://register.sanpedroocr.org/en/default/races/race-resultsall