The 2025 ILCA Oceania Youth Solidarity Program has launched.

John d’Helin the Program Director promises the program will be better than ever with support now added from Australian Sailing for the coach and coach boat.

The program objective is to actively promote the ILCA 4 class to clubs as the logical transition class for junior and youth sailors. ILCA Oceania aims to grow participation in the ILCA 4 class at the Oceania & Australian Open and Youth ILCA Championships and in ILCA sponsored youth regattas.

Each ILCA Oceania and Australian District will select one youth female sailor, who will receive the benefit of the following support at the 2025 Oceania & Australian Open and Youth ILCA Championships to be held from 1-8 January 2024 at Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron, Brisbane, Queensland.

• Free event and functions entry.
• An ILCA 4 charter boat in race condition.
• Squad coaching during the regatta.
• Youth Solidarity program merchandise.

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

Applications are open here These must be completed on or before 1 October 2024. The selected applicants (one per district) will be chosen by their ILCA district. Selections will be announced in mid October .

More information including the selection criteria is here.

Olympic Sailing schedule is detailed by Sailor Girl Nic Douglass on her web site Here.

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The Australian Sailing Team social media accounts will be the place to go to follow everything happening with the Aussie sailors in Marseilles.

• X @AusSailingTeam
• Facebook @Australian Sailing Team
• Instagram @AusSailingTeam

The 2024 ILCA Under 21 World Championships have concluded  in the Atlantic Ocean waters off the historic city of  Viana do Castelo, Portugal which traces its history back to 1258.. The event ran from July 1st to 8th and was blessed with great sailing conditions. All 12 races were held as scheduled.

There were 13 Australian sailors Frances Beebe. Lili Mcaullay, Ellen Sampson, Evie Saunders, Jack Eickmeyer, Tom Holmes, Lawson Mcaullay, Edward Reid, Isaac Schotte, Max Sturman, Julian Taylor, Lachie Weber and Myles Wilson competing alongside 235 sailors (80 women and 155 men) from 41 countries.

The Australian sailors all put in strong performances with Evie Saunders leading the charge finishing second in the ILCA 6 to Ireland’s Eve McMahon who was dominant posting four wins for a 30 point winning margin.

In the ILCA 7s Theodor Middelthon from Norway had a comfortable win. Isaac Schotte was running 4th mid series but faded in the last days to finish 10th with Edward  Reid 12th and Jack Eickmeyer 13th. Well done all in a hot fleet.

Event links are.

Results
Event Photos
Event Videos 
Event Website
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Olympics sailing will run from July 28th to August 8th in Marseilles.

One of the last warmup regattas prior to the Olympics was Kiel Week 2024 which finished on June 30th. The conditions there were highly varied ranging from light winds to stormy gusts.

Top Australian results were Mara Stransky with a 2nd in the ILCA 6 which saw four Australians finish in the top ten. Zac Littlewood was 4th in the ILCA 7 and Caterina Meyer 14th out of 150 girls in the ILCA 4 fleet.

Detail results are here.