The 2025 Suzuki ILCA Master European Championships officially kicked off today in Hayling Island, Great Britain.
With ideal sailing conditions, both of the scheduled races were completed this afternoon. The wind averaged 9 knots, and the near-flat water provided perfect conditions for the competition.
In the ILCA 6, Canadian sailor Maura Dewey CAN leads the Women’s, Apprentice Master, and Overall standings with 3 points. She is closely followed by Jon Emmett GBR, leader in the Masters’ category, who has 5 points. In third place overall is Thomas Hansson SWE, the Grand Masters’ leader, with 9 points.
In the ILCA 7, Grand Masters Roger Schulz GER and Lennart Cnossen NED are at the top of the overall rankings, with 8 and 9 points, respectively. Race winners Ian Elliott SWE and Benoit Meesemaecker NED sit in third and fourth overall, tied with 10 points each.
Two new races are scheduled for tomorrow, with the first warning signal at 12:00. The forecast predicts similar conditions to today.
Racing will continue every day until Friday, June 20th, when the new Master European champions will be crowned. A total of 128 sailors from 19 countries are being part of the competition.
How to follow the 2025 Suzuki ILCA Master Europeans
News and reports
A daily report with news and results, photos and videos will be published at eurilca.org and in the event website; https://2025-master.eurilca-europeans.org/
Instant notifications
We have created a Telegram channel that you can join to receive instant communications about the event: https://t.me/ilcamastereu25
Photo gallery
We are pleased to inform you that we will be consistently sharing photos on our Smugmug account at https://eurilca.smugmug.com/ILCA-European-Championships/2025/Master
All the photos can be downloaded for free and are intended only for editorial use, and specifically related to this event. If you have any other purpose in mind or if you intend to use the photos for commercial use, please reach out to the photographer directly at thomtouw@me.com.
Newsletter
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Social media
We’ll be spreading contents and streaming some of the action and races live in our Instagram instagram.com/eurilca and Facebook facebook.com/eurilca accounts, so follow us also there.
Race documents
For further information about the event you can download the Notice of Race, Sailing Instructions and other documents here: https://eurilca.eu/event/338/documents
Event website
All the information and links to the different contents mentioned before you can also find them at the official event website: https://2025-master.eurilca-europeans.org/
The 2025 ILCA Master European Championships are organised by EurILCA in conjunction with Hayling Island Sailing Club.
The event is kindly sponsored by Suzuki, and supported by Rooster, Ovington, Hardline Brewery, Tideway, Sailing Fast, Southeast Sailboats, Chichester Harbour Conservancy, and Dynamic Dollies & Racks.
Stay tuned!
The EurILCA Team
Report by Agustín Argüelles – EurILCA | Photos by Thom Touw Photography.
