Last Update: 16 October 2018, 19:49 GMT

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• 17th October 2018
  Wall Calendar 2019
  A 2019 calendar featuring some of the best images from 2018 has been published.
  Price is £13.99 plus tax and shipping.
• 22nd September 2018
  GER: National Championship 2018, Schwerin
  Andrè Budzien (GER) wins from Tomasz Gaj (POL) and Greg Wilcox (NZL). DEN: National Championship 2018, Marstal
  Anders Andersen wins from Bo Petesen and Lars Andresen, all DEN.
• 5th September 2018
  POL: National Championship 2018, Gdańsk
  Tomasz Gaj won from Pawel Pawlaczyk and Marek Bernat. NED: Dutch National Championship 2018, Oosterzee
  Andreas Pich won from Wolfgang Hofener and Dirk Dame (all GER). FRA: Southern National French Championship 2018, Etang de Lacanau
  Julien Dejugnat won from Alain Renoux and Tim Petetin.
• 24th August 2018
  GBR: National Championship, Brixham
  Charlie Cumbley won from Dave Bourne and Fergus Barnham.
• 15th August 2018
  SWE: National Championship, Träslövsläge
  Fredrik Lööf (SWE) won from Thomas Hansson-Mild (SWE) and Bo Petersen (DEN).
• 6th August 2018
  Top 10 gear list at worlds
  We added the gear used by the top ten at the worlds in Warnemünde to the results page.
• 24th July 2018
  Minutes of the AGM
  The Minutes of the AGM in Warnemünde are online now.
• 9th July 2018
  BEL Championships
  The Belgian National Championships were moved a weekend back to 15 - 16 September. Pre-Worlds
  Too much wind only allowed 3 races on the last day. Andrè Budzien (GER) won from Lars Brodtkorb (NOR) and Luke Gower (NZL) World Championships
  All Information about the worlds can be found on the 2018.okworlds.org website
• 4th July 2018
  OKDIA AGM papers
  The Treasurers report for the 2017 financials has been added
• 30th June 2018
  Forum
  As of 30th of June, the forum supplier we used closed all forums. We will sone have an archive of the old forum online and are looking into a new service.
• 22nd June 2018
  Kiel Week
  In challenging conditions Jan Kurfeld (GER) won from Bo Petersen (DEN) and Mads Bendix (DEN)
• 12th June 2018
  SWE Nordic Championship
  Back into the class Frederik Lööf (SWE) won from Bo Petersen (DEN) and Greg Wilcox (NZL)
• 11th June 2018
  NZL Brass Monkey
  A report about the Brass Monkey regatta in Napier by Rod Davis was added.
• 7th June 2018
  NZL Brass Monkey
  In very light conditions and sun on the first, rain on the second day in Napier, Steve McDowell won from Alistair Deaves and Thomas Olds.
• 1st June 2018
  OKDIA AGM papers
  Several papers related to the AGM in Warnemünde are published now, the Agenda, Rule Change Proposals, a report by the Chairman of the Technical Committee and proposals for future World Championships
• 21st May 2018
  SWE: Nynäshamn
  Jonas Börjesson won the second national event from Thomas Hansson-Mild and Bengt Larsson.
• 13th May 2018
  FRA: Mediterranean Championships 2018
  With too much wind the first day, light 5 races on the second day and perfect 12-15kn on the last day, Peter Zeiler (DEN) won from Julien Dejugnat and Timothée Petetin.
• 2nd May 2018
  NED: Spring Cup 2018
  The prestigious first big international event of the Northern Hemisphere season was won by Charlie Cumbley (GBR) from Jim Hunt (GBR) and Luke Gower (NZL).
• 25th April 2018
  GBR 2018 Inland Championship
  Held at Blithfield SC, Staffordshire, Terry Curtis won from Keith Byers and Tony Woods.
• 23rd April 2018
  2019 Worlds New Zealand
  The NOR for the worlds in New Zealand are published and the online entries are open.
• 17th April 2018
  SWE: Liros Nordic Race, Stenungsund
  Thomas Hansson-Mild won from Jonas Börjesson and Lars Edvall.
• 9th April 2018
  Mediterranean Championship 2018
  On the upcoming events page, we added Notice of race and a few more details about the event.
• 11th April 2018
  NZL Turangi 2018
  Better late than never, the results of Turangi, sailed beginning of March, are added. The regatta is a World ranking event.
• 11th March 2018
  World Ranking List March 2018
  While most of the top places stay the same, there are 18 new sailors on the list, which now includes 519 sailors from 13 countries.
• 16th February 2018
  World Championship 2018 – entries are open now
  Entries are open now at the organizers web-system. Going to be a great event and rumours have it that several German Finn sailors will try to campaign an OK for the event.
• 11th February 2018
  NZL: Interdom & National Championship 2018
  Held at Wakatere, the Worlds venue for 2019, Luke O'Connell won from Dan Slater and Ben Morrison.
• 28th January 2018
  AUS: National Championship 2018
  Held off the Gold Coast for the first time, Rob Mcmillan won from Greg Wilcox and Mark Jackson.
• 3rd January 2018
  THA: National Sports Day 2017
  Overall PO.2 Supakon Pongwichean won from LT.JG. Pariwat Aleemin and PO.1 Thanakan Korkerd, LT.JG. Pariwat Aleemin was first in Thai built boat.
• 25th December 2017
  Training Camp in Bandol in March 2018
  In Bandol, the venue for the 2018 European Championship (and the 2018 Mediterranean Championship), the top Dutch coach Han Beverwijk will do a 5-day camp 5-9 March.
• 27th November 2017
  AUS: Go for Gold 2017
  Michael Horvath won from Brent Williams and Folkert Janssen. NZL: East Coast Championship 2017
  Dan Slater won from Steve McDowell and Eric Rone.
• 26th October 2017
  NZL: Rum Bucket
  A quite breezy event was won by Dan Slater from Ben Morrison and Mark Perrow.
• 5th October 2017
  Some catching up on events: GER: National Championship
  Very variable, light to start with, very windy at the end. Greg Wilcox won from André Budzien and Martin v. Zimmermann. GBR: National Championship
  Herne Bay deliverd very variable conditions from very strong to no wind, Luke Gower won from Terry Curtis and Alex Scoles. SWE: Träslövsläge Autumn Regatta
  Jonas Qvist won from Jan-Erik Engholm and Jonas Börjesson. BEL: National Championship
  Sailed on the Galgenweel, first time a french won the title! Julien Dejugnat (FRA) won from Stephan Veldman (NED) and Ralf Mackmann (GER).
• 8th May 2017
  New Class rules
  After a lot of work the completely re-written class rules will come into effect from 1 June and are published now.
• 22th December 2016
  Paul Elvstrøm and the early days of the OK Dinghy
  Paul was a committed supporter of the OK from the very beginning in 1956