British International 420 Class

Remember this🤔

TBT our summer events over the last couple of years, flying the flag for Team GBR and showing the world what we can do💪

Only 35 days before we’ll be parading through the streets of Biscarrosse waving our 🇬🇧 to officially open the 2026 World Championships🔥🤩

Team kit is now open for order - make sure to get your size in ASAP 🤙😎 Swipe to the end for a sneak peek of the new design👀

Only a week or two left before exam season is over - come on team 420🚀🚀🚀

What we like to see🔥

💨+🌊=🤙🤙🤙

What a great weekend down in racing alongside the Flying 15s and Fireballs on the English Riviera🏞️

Thank you to all the race team & volunteers that made it possible🙏

Getting the itch to go sailing? What better way is there to celebrate the end of exam season than with GP3 at the Northern Y&J Champs on 21/22 June in Derwent❓With starts for a range of different classes across the weekend, you can sail alongside the best of British Youth & Junior sailing ⛵️

Get signed up on the website 🔜

📸RTYC / 50 North Photography

Racing on the south coast is better than revising. Enough said🤐

Get yourself signed up to Grand Prix 2 this weekend in if you want a couple of days break🚀

Bored of A-levels and GCSEs?

We are too! Can’t wait for the exam season to be over and get back out on the water🌊

With many of our sailors starting their school exams tomorrow, we want to wish every one of you GOOD LUCK🚀

Just think…in just over a month’s time we’ll be back out on the water, getting geared up for an epic summer for team GBR 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Still getting the hours in afloat in the meantime? Make sure you share your photos and tag so we can keep the motivation up to get our sailors through the next few weeks💪💪

Weybiza + 🌊+💨+☀️ = Spring Champs 26🤙

What a weekend we have had😍

2 days of tight racing in a range of wind & waves down in Weymouth Bay just wrapped up, continuing the good vibes on from the Youth Nationals a few weeks ago😎

Great fun to be able to sail alongside the 470 ranker too, giving the fleet the opportunity to get inspired for what could be to come🚀

Thank you as always to for being fantastic hosts, to and for keeping the fleet kitted & rigged up, and to all the event team who made it happen💪

Well done to all our competitors and good luck to all our sailors returning to school to sit GCSE and A-level exams before an epic summer of racing 420s⛵️⛵️⛵️

📸Abbie Self /

What a week🤙

4 days of tight racing pushed the fleet to both extremes of conditions, with the limits being well and truly pushed on day 1 right down to AP for the breeze to fill in on day 3… the Youth Nationals 2026 really did deliver the very best of British Sailing for team 420💪

After the ultimate battle of skill in the tightest of medal races, we crowned our Youth National Champions🥇🥈🥉

🥇Overall & Male/Mixed Youth National Champions🏆: Hugo Fletcher & Alex Flint

🥈Overall & Female Youth National Champions🏆: India Eastwood & Isla Fletcher

🥉Overall: Joe Jones & Hennie Burlton

U17 Youth National Champions🏆: Pippa Shepherd & Lauren Mecklenburgh

Congratulations to the whole fleet for pushing your skills to the limit and battling it out at the biggest event in British Youth Sailing🚀

Thank you to & as well as all coaches & volunteers for running 4 days of brilliant racing on the solent and to & for keeping the fleet kitted & rigged up⛵️🌊

📸Martin Allen/RYA & George Self

Youth Nationals we are ready🚀

After 2 days of sailing out on the solent in glamorous conditions, boats have been cleaned, polished, registered and rigged ready to go for day 1 tomorrow🌊

Thank you to .libby_ , , , .fletcher and for the expert advice and coaching to get the fleet ready to rumble for 4 days of some of the best racing in the UK at the Youth Nationals in , and to & for helping get us kitted 🆙

Bring on day 1💪💪💪

📋Statement from the class.