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Lucy Luxford NZL Selection for the 2025 Solidarity Program

Wed 18 Dec 2024 10:52pm

ILCA.nz is proud to announce that Lucy Luxford has been selected to represent New Zealand in the 2025 Solidarity Program.
 
This program encourages young female sailors (ages 13-16) to participate in a world-class sailing championship and aims to foster a lasting love for sailing among young girls and support their development within the sport.
 
Lucy aims to progress through the youth classes and the solidarity program has provided a once in a lifetime opportunity to international experience in the ILCA 4 within a supportive and collaborative experience.  Past representatives have expressed how much they learned as well as the long lasting friendships they have made.
 
Good luck Lucy!

2025 Oceania 4.7 Youth Solidarity Program

Thu 5 Sep 2024 9:39pm

Calling on any NZ female youth sailors who are interested in attending the 2025 Youth Solidarity Program.

We can send one sailor from NZ.

Applicants must be;
• A NZ citizen
• A member of ILCA.nz
• An ILCA 4 female sailor aged 13-16 years as at 1 January 2025 with a minimum body weight of 50kg.

More details at: https://ilca.au/2025-youth-solidarity-program-launched
 

Auckland Anniversary Regatta

Tue 23 Jan 2024 7:21am

ILCA racing at Tamaki YC
Briefing 11:30am
First race 12:30pm, 3 races back to back
Enter at the club on the day
Sailing Instructions

Sailing fair and proud of it

Thu 26 Oct 2023 5:41am
Hi everyone,

As the new season starts it a great time to reflect on how fairly each and every one of us sail.

The answer is that 99% of ILCA sailors play fair 99% of the time, and that fantastic. Thanks to everyone who respects their fellow sailors, plays fair and plays by the rules. It's great that ILCA is blessed with such a great bunch of fair sailors.

There are of course times when we have a momentary lapse, and either forget the rules or forget that if we have forgotten the rules, or that dammed weather mark just jumped up by itself and hit us, we should take the initiative and do our turn/s. Be fair, do the penalty, deal with it then and there and then carry on and set about recovering.
 
Sure it's tempting to think "it's just a club race" or "I did not mean to hit the mark, it was the marks fault", or maybe "I did not really impact their race" or even "there's no judge so that odd extra pump and roll will not get picked up", let alone "well port is pretty close to starboard". 
 
Let's put all the excuses away once and for all. We all know marks are not to be hit. We all know we can't just be pumping, rocking and rolling when we feel like it and really all of us know port should give way, every time. 
 
So let's all play fair 100% of the time. If you do unfortunately infringe you probably know deep down that you have. You normally at least have a pretty dam good idea that you have probably infringed, particularly if someone takes the trouble to hail you about it! It does not matter whether you are a world ranked sailor in a world championship or a casual club racer anywhere. If you think you have had a hiccup, do your turns, feel good about playing the game fairly then carry on. Avoid any ill feeling and know you have done the right thing.
 
Let's all sail by the rules, but at the same time let's not annoy everyone else in the fleet by being a pain and trying to over use (or misuse) every last nuance of the rules to squeeze out the opposition. 
 
So this season let's have 100% of ILCA sailors play fair 100% of the time. Let's all feel good about how we sail, every time we sail, regardless of if we are at the front or back of our fleet; ILCA 4,ILCA 6 or ILCA 7; Youth, Open or Master; Pupuke, Bluff or anywhere in between, or even at a World Champs if we are lucky enough to be there.
 
Sail fair, enjoy sailing fair and let's all be proud of it.
 
Thanks
Nick Page

2023 ILCA.nz Chairmans Report

Wed 25 Oct 2023 10:02pm

It was great to have a 2022/23 season free of Covid disruptions and with many successful regattas completed. Standouts were an extremely successful nationals at Murrays Bay, the very well attended NI Freshwater champs at Taupo and of course George Lane as ILCA 6 Men’s World Championship win and George Gautrey’s podium finish at the ILCA 7 worlds. It was also good to see many other NZ ILCA sailors competing internationally, at Youth, Open and Masters levels.
 
Our Nationals at Murrays Bay were again a great success. We had excellent fleets in both the ILCA 6 and 7 at all levels. There was plenty of variety in conditions on the water, excellently run races and a fantastic host club. We again had a good response to our free entry initiative for any sailor who has not competed at an ILCA nationals for 10 years and have decided to continue this at Napier again this season. It is a significant financial commitment for the class, but we believe helps attract new sailors and lays a foundation for ongoing class success.
 
We will also be continuing with our always popular pre-Nationals free coaching sessions again this year, which have become a popular feature of the days before the nationals, again using paid coaches.
 
The NI Freshwater Championship, sailed for the first time last season in March at Taupo, was very successful and we will be repeating it again this season. Many sailors from around the NI took the opportunity to get together and enjoy some late season high quality racing at a central location, and LTYC were great and enthusiastic hosts for the event.
 
We are looking froward to this season Nationals in Napier and  have confirmed the Nationals for 2025 will be at Nelson Yacht Club, the venue of several previous very successful contests but one we have not visited for some time.
 
Financially we again had a satisfactory year, and the Association remains in good financial health.
 
We have progressed the move to embedding the name change of our Association to ILCA.nz as discussed last year and will be continuing to progressively transition the website etc to the new name.
 
Thanks to the committee, and especially Ken and Mike for all the work they do behind the scenes.
 
We are always keen to have anyone interested join the committee or propose or discuss any ILCA (Laser) issue. You are always welcome to contact me or any member of the committee via the NZLA website e mail contacts.
 
 
Nick Page
Chairman NZLA

Caleb Armit 3rd in ILCA 7 Under 21 World Champs

Mon 23 Oct 2023 7:43am

Congratulations to Caleb Armit who has come 3rd in the ILCA 7 Under 21 World Champs in Tanger Morocco.

Fantastic result.

Photos at: facebook.com/YachtingNewZealand

Full ILCA 6 & 7 results - click ILCA 7 to that fleet


 

DripDry Seat Covers for Olympic Fundraising

Thu 28 Sep 2023 3:50am

Check out these DripDry seat covers and support ILCA sailor Eroni Leilua in his Olympic Fundraising campaign.

2024 & 2025 NZ ILCA Champs

Sat 16 Sep 2023 9:41pm
2024 Nationals

Hopefully most of you are planning to be in Napier for the 2024 Nationals.

Measuring Wednesday 17th and racing Thursday 18th through Sunday 21st January.

Free entry again to anyone who has not sailed in an ILCA(Laser) nationals in the last 10 years.

We will as usual have free coaching sessions on Tuesday 16th and Wednesday 17th, details to follow closer to the time.

Don’t forget to book accommodation early as it will be at a premium as the region continues to recover from the floods.

Regatta details here. More to come and entry will be open shortly.

2025 Nationals

We are pleased to announce that the 2025 Nationals will be at Nelson Yacht Club from Wednesday 15th to Sunday 19th January 2025.

It's quite a while since we have been to Nelson for our Nationals. Its a wonderful venue with beautiful sailing on the waters of Tasman Bay so put in the diary as a feature for for your 2025 South Island holiday.

2024 Season events

As well as the Nationals there will be a full slate of events for the 2023/24 season as usual. There are lots of club, local and regional regattas scheduled through the season, check with your club website etc, but a few feature ILCA ones to flag up:

The North Island champs in Napier on 25th/26th November will provide a great warmup for the nationals later in the season at the same venue.

The South Island champs will be at Naval Point on 9th and 10th December, a key leg in the South Island ILCA regatta circuit

Our late season highlight, the North Island Freshwater champs at Taupo 9th and 10th March, which attracted a fleet of 50 at the inaugural regatta last season and is sure to be a favourite again this season.

Keep up to date with the sailing calendar.

We look forward to seeing you all on the water.

Nick Page
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