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This year’s Bulwark trophy was part of a double handed regatta run by Hayling Island Sailing Club. As this event was not paired with the Southern Championships the attendance of visitors was low with only four boats from other clubs.

All four races were completed on the final day, meaning the full race schedule for the entire event was successfully achieved despite the notoriously difficult conditions of Aarhus Bay.

We are a few weeks away from the Dragon European Championship, set to bring one of the summer’s most international sporting events to Helsinki, with over 60 boats, teams from 12 countries with sailors representing over 20 nationalities soon gathering.

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.