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Wolds 2023 – Bridlington here we come

Dart 18 World Championship 2023 – Bridlington UKThe Royal Yorkshire Yacht Club (R.Y.Y.C. Bridlington) along with UKIDA, look forward to welcoming you all to the 2023 Dart 18 World Championship.

The Royal Yorkshire Yacht Club is the home to 27 D18s and a regular venue on the UK event circuit. The club produces great racing in Bridlington Bay and is also known for its parties at the cliff top club house venue – pull your sail up in the day and let your hair down at night!

The club has its own campsite and is offering free camping within the entry fee during the event.

10 Championship races will take place between Sunday the 30 th July and Friday 4 th August 2023, along with a practice race on the 29 th July. The event site opens on Wednesday 26 th and closes on the Sunday 6 th August.

There is no sailing qualification needed and no excuse not to be there.

Entries open at midday on Saturday 15 th October and for those that enter early there is a chance to receive the first of several ‘Early Entry Incentives’: 
Incentive 1. is a draw to receive a full refund of your boat entry fee in £. To be eligible for this incentive your entry must be received within the first 40 entries, or by 31 st January 2023 — whichever comes sooner.

For those that have already made up their mind and have packed their bags click, here and enter
 
Entry Form

All entries will be via the UKIDA WebCollect page and for those that are unfamiliar with how this works the following guide may be helpful
How to Enter Guide
For those that want to read a bit more about all the fun that can be had and the opening incentives for booking early, read here – 
Event Information Sheet
Future information will be published via the WebCollect page and announced on the UKIDA Dart 18 Facebook Page along with follow up MailChimp bulletin’s 

See you all in Bridlington!

Dart18 Worlds 2022 not in Vilamoura

Dear Dart 18 sailors,

In 2019 during the Dart 18 Worlds in Thailand, Portugal proposed to organise the Dart18 Worlds Championships in Vilamoura Portugal. The Dart 18 fleet welcomed this proposal. We planned to hold the event in 2021. Unfortunately due to Covid the Vilamoura Worlds were postponed to September 2022.

For the last couple of months the IDA board has been in contact with the organisers in Vilamoura to assist with the organisation. The Vilamoura organisation guaranteed that, despite the lack of information we shouldn’t be worried. We would get a great event. Unfortunately CIMAV informed us last week that they are not able to host our event in September 2022. The costs would be too high for them and they couln’t take the risk. In September it is still high season in Vilamoura. The IDA board then discussed with Vilamoura Sailing, the other sailing club in Vilamoura, if they could host our event in September. Unfortunately the result of these talks are that today they also informed us that they are not able to host our event this September.

So with regret we have to announce that the Dart18 2022 Worlds in Vilamoura will not happen.

Luckily we have a plan B that is very promising. We will have a big international Dart18 event on Lake Garda in the week from 22 to 27 August. At this moment we can’t provide you with the exact dates, entry fee etc. etc. We are discussing all details with the club: Circolo Vela Arco and World Sailing. In the next few days we hope to be able to give more information on the exact dates, the name of the event and the entry fee.

We do understand this all is a big disappointment for you all! We know lots of time has been spent in organising transportation of boats to Portugal, booking accommodation etc. That is the reason we have tried everything to have an event in Vilamoura. Unfortunately Vilamoura couldn’t honour their original commitment.

We hope you can adapt your plans so that we will see most of you on the beautiful Lake Garda this summer. In the next days and weeks we will update you with details of the event.

Kind regards

IDA Committee

Gold Cup Dart 18 – looking back at a great event!

It is possible! Despite all the difficult circumstances we sailed a wunderful regatta in La Rochelle. Thanks to the unbreakable optimisme of our frensh collegues from AFIDART the Gold Cup was an event as close to what we are used to as possible. Obviously we regret that many of our sailors could not travell, espacially our friends from the UK. We all look forward to having the whole fleet back on the water next year from the 10th-16th Septembre 2022 in Vilamoura, Portugal!

Read here about the Gold Cup in La Rochelle