British International 420 Class

Heading into the new season looking for a new partner🤔

We get it. Finding someone to sail with can be tough, whether you're totally new to the class or just looking to mix things up. With a brilliant team of class coaches working hard to deliver our training programme, we've put together a system to help pair up helms and crews at all levels.📈

There are plenty of events and training opportunities coming up in the next few weeks, so get your request in ASAP to make the most of it! DM us for any questions, or check out the link in our bio🧑‍💻

420 British National Championships 2026🔥

The ULTIMATE combination of sailing and social⛵️🕺

After 3 tight days of racing in the waters of Torbay, last night drew an end to our epic event, hosted by 🚀

With wet and wild weather on almost all the races, sailors and boats have been well and truly battered and tested, bringing some of the best quality racing of the year💪

Congratulations to our event winners - Neil & David🏆

Full results coming in the next post👊

As always, a HUGE thank you to ALL of our sponsors for helping make some of the best racing in the UK possible, in particular Gill and Xtremity Sports for your continued support throughout the whole season🙏🙌

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This event concludes the 420 circuit for 2025-26, and what a season it’s been. From the Itchenor GP last September, through so many brilliant venues over the winter, to HISC for the Youth Nationals, and on to Biscarrosse and Nida for team GBR, it’s been a big one👊

For many of our sailors, this will also mark the end of their 420 sailing journeys - we hope you’ve had as much of a blast as we have🚀 The 420 class is well and truly the place to be for youth sailing in the UK, and you guys are the reason why🫡 As with everything in the world of sailing, we know this isn’t goodbye forever, and we can’t wait to see what everyone gets up to next🤙

For those that are sticking around and those just about to join us, the 2026-27 season will kick off with our first event in Itchenor SC at the end of this month, so we’ll see you all there😎

📸Abbie Self

End of an era for these sailors 🥹

Goodbye and Good Luck on your next sailing adventures! 😎⛵️

Day 1️⃣ of the Gill 420 British National Championships in was 🔥🔥🔥

With a building breeze from 10 to 30kts through 3 intense, edge-of-your-seat races, the fleet certainly settled into their groove for the first day of racing😎

50 420s battled it out on the waters of Torbay, with spectacular capsizes all round, even from some of our veterans, leaving a mixed but tight leaderboard heading into the next few days🚀

Thanks to all our race management, safety & volunteer teams for keeping it going💪

Day 2️⃣ is set to take it up a notch…are you ready😜

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3️⃣ days to go now - this time tomorrow the floodgates will open with over 50 420s entering the boat park🚀

Pre-event training starts on Tuesday⏰

Only 4️⃣ days to go now...

📆420 British National Championships 2026

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Just 5️⃣ days to go until the 420 British Nationals 2026 kick off in 😮

With over 50 entries and a cracking social programme lined up, it's looking like it's gonna be a good one💥

Congratulations to all our GCSE level pupils celebrating their results today🥳

That’s the stress done - time to set your sights firmly on the British Nationals, kicking off a week today🚀

‼️Discount Alert‼️

Our legendary sponsors at Xtremity Sports have once again kindly given us a 10% discount ahead of the British Nationals in 😎🤩

As always the shop that has it all will also be offering next day home delivery, so make sure to get all your essentials ordered to get your boats kitted out ready for the event of the year🚀

420 Nationals here we come🫨

Socials schedule is out and there truly is something for everyone… who’s excited 😜🤩😎

Kicking off with Brixham’s got talent🎪, sailing in to our Pirate night🏴‍☠️, singing the night away with Karaoke🎤 , before bringing it home with our iconic Black Tie Dinner🤵

The 420 British Nationals 2026 start in 10 days - sun☀️, sea🌊 and endless social🕺💃 here we come💪