Once again the ILCA North Island Freshwater Champs will be part of the excellent Bayleys Taupo LTYC 2025 Centreboard Regaata.

• Lake Taupo YC
• 8th & 9th March 2025
• NOR and entry at ltyc.org.nz/25centreboard-regatta

The 2025 Oceania and Australian ILCA Nationals was a great opportunity and I was lucky enough to be a part of the Solidarity Program, which selects a female youth sailor from each state in Australia and from New Zealand and supports them to compete in the Oceania and Australia Nationals.

The program was all about making friends from different places, learning new things, and competing in a high performance regatta with lots of participants. I was given the opportunity to go to Brisbane and compete within this program, where I gained lots of experience sailing the ILCA 4.

More on the Solidarity Program

The sailing in Brisbane was really good with a minimum of 25 degrees everyday and lots of wind. My favourite day was the first one where 36 knot gusts sent us all off the course at the same time, making it very interesting on the ramp while over 200 sailors tried to find their 'dolleys'.

The program supplied a brand-new boat from Performance Sailcraft, a sail for the regatta, coaching, uniform, and entry fee. I made friends with people from all around Australia which was great fun and also means that I will know lots of people from Australia for my next international regatta.

I want to thank all the people who made it possible for me to be a part of this experience and the people who helped me immensely while I was there. Thanks also to Vaikobi, Performance Sailcraft for supplying our boats, the Australian ILCA association for making everything possible, and the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron for hosting the event.

- Lucy Luxford

We have cancelled the ILCA sailing for the 2025 Auckland Anniversary Regatta.

The current and forecast conditions are too strong for most ILCA sailors. And this has been consistent with the forecast over the past fw days.

So sorry about that. But we will be back racing at Tamaki YC next Saturday.

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!

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
 

laserinternational.org/rules-and-technical/handbook

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

More at Live Sail Die
 

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