IOCA(Scotland) - the home of Optimist Sailing in Scotland

Welcome to the website of IOCA (Scotland)

Welcome to the home for Optimist Sailors in Scotland. You'll find us scattered around the length and breadth of Scotland - from St Mary's Loch in the south, to Invergordon in the north, via the Clyde, the Forth and several inland lochs. This is a loose, friendly gathering. If you fancy some new scenery, and a warm welcome, why not join us? Helms should be IOCA / RYA grade 2 or above for traveller's events. Grade 3 is recommended for coastal waters. Events are normally split into a coached regatta fleet for those new to racing, and a main fleet. All the traveller events are Open Events run by the host club, and are typically two day events. Racing is normally Saturday lunchtime to mid afternoon Sunday. Main fleet boats are expected to be fully measured and certified: regatta fleet boats do not need formal measurement certificates, but should be seaworthy.

valid buoyancy test;
class rule compliant painter (we recommend 8.1m of 6mm floating line);
bailers;
whistle.

Although you do not need to be a member of IOCA(UK) to attend the open racing events, you are expected to join to be part of the series. Training sessions are only open to IOCA(UK) members.

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News

12:01
22 Jan 12
by Ditta

Scottish Traveller Series 2012

The dates and venues for the Scottish Traveller Series in 2012 have been set. Every effort has been made to tie in with the other Youth Classes - to constitute a Scottish Youth Series. For most of the events this includes Toppers, 420s, Lasers and 29ers.

So dates for your diary are:

21/22 April - Loch Venacher SYS

28/29 April - Annandate - Oppi and Toppers

26/27 May - Dalgety Bay SYS

16/17 June - Helensburgh SYS

30 June - 1st July - Channonry SYS

1/2 Sept - Prestwick SYS

16/17 Sept Tummel Oppi only

Other dates for your diary are the RYA Scotland events on:

24/25 March RYAS Spring Champs, Largs

9/11 June Brown Cup - Loch Earn

18 Aug Volvo Club Champs - Loch Venacher

Did you know: There is an excellent calendar on our website? Click on calendar on the top row, then on calendar again (not scrolling down the Calendar menu). It contains dates for all sorts of fleets besides Optimists!

Site Navigation

Each of the menu options across the top of the page are links to other pages. Some of them have drop-down menus as well - which will also link to other pages. Note that Results appear under the "Calendar" menu - and each year section links to the series results for that year.

A number of the documents on this site (and linked sites) present documents in Adobe pdf format. Adobe Acrobat Reader is a free utility to read these files.

IOCA (UK)

... is the International Optimist Class Association in the UK. They administer the class within the UK, and manage the UK Optimist squads on behalf of the RYA.