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The first day of the 2026 OK Dinghy World Championship at Skovshoved was a day of adages. Consistency is king. You can’t win it on the first day, but you can lose it. It was a very tricky day. And it was all of those things and much more.

We write this report to the sound of hammers chiselling away at mast track, the sight of boats on their sides with full MOT checks on-going, and unfortunately, a couple of new masts being rigged up.

They say the best must be able to sail in all conditions and for the two-day 2026 River Cruiser Open held at the Norfolk Punt Club, twelve of the very best arrived on Saturday to test themselves out in driving rain and very strong gusty winds.

The second event in the 2026 Cambridgeshire Youth League was held at Grafham Water Sailing Club on Saturday 6th June. The CYL consists of five Cambridgeshire sailing clubs: Cam SC, Ely SC, Grafham Water SC, Hunts SC and Paxton Lakes SC.

Last Saturday saw the first Waldringfield SC club team racing event. The day dawned blustery and rainy.

The 2026 Blaze Nationals will see the class coming together en-masse again in June for the season’s showcase event, and will be punctuated by the Blaze’s 30th anniversary year celebrations.

With the African and Oceanian Qualifiers complete it was all change in Grandson, Switzerland with seven Europeans arriving, ready to try and book their ticket to Rio.

We are here in Carnac for our ACO Musto Skiff World Championship, and Yacht Club de Carnac’s team has once again put on a great event from the word go. We have each received a warm welcome by a club that is committed to putting on the best event possible.

On Sunday 7th June, Royal Harwich Yacht club hosted the eastern area GP traveller series. We had 28 boats in total entered for the day: four ILCA 4, eight ILCA 6 and sixteen ILCA 7.

Eryri National Park Authority could pause restrictions on overnight parking it imposed at 11 of its car parks only two months ago – although the U-turn seems mainly to appease night sky watchers and those who like to park at sunrise and sunset. Back in April, the national park, also known as Snowdonia, introduced restrictions…