21/11/23: An update from Franjo:

Dear friends and colleagues

As you already know WPSC 2024 will be held from 28.09.2024 to 5.10.2024. For the first payment you have time until 31.01.2024. BUT, I need your initial enrolments asap to ensure the quantity of the boats. So please send it as soon as possible.

Thank you,

Franjo

See Initial Enrolment form below

08/10/23: An update from Franjo:

Dear friends,

Decision was hard but at the end quite obvious. I chose the best possible venue, and also considered the majority opinion of the skippers, so Marina Hramina on Murter island was able to give us the best offer and services. But at Murter, we will just start our adventure, and end it also. The rest of the days/nights we will sail-race through the two national parks and beautiful sea of Kornati islands, with hundreds of islands and bays and beaches. We have a plan to visit at least three different ports in that region, no matter the weather conditions. We will choose the safest ones.

Like already written, the fee will be from 4.500,00 to 5.000,00 € + registration like every year. The cost depends on the dinner prices and national parks entry, but this we will negotiate later in 2024, when new prices will be available. You can be sure I will do everything to make it as reasonable as I can. When you will have a completed crew, please send me clothing sizes for T-shirts.

Payment:

1/3 500,00 € up to 31.01.2024
2/3 1.500,00 € up to 30.04.2024
3/3 2.500,00 € up to 31.07.2024

The rest at the registration.

The final newsletter with presentation of the venue will be sent shortly. For now I just need your initial enrolment so I can start with negotiations regarding WPSC.

We will sail at the same boats like this year so Bavaria 46 with a gennaker.

And please sign it and then send it back.

Thank you,

Franjo

Initial Enrolment form

A circulation received from Franjo:

Dear friends and colleagues

As you know, next year is the year of the WPSC again. We already have conversations about the venue of this regatta, and some teams have doubts about organizing it again in Croatia. It's my understanding that Croatia is "on the menu" now from 2015, so I visited Turkey and Hungary - lake Balaton. Also I tried to write to several companies in Greece, but no answer at all from there. Lake Balaton in Hungary has some fleets, also good places to visit and have dinners, the prices are a little higher then in Croatia for rental, and lower to eat. Still after a good thinking and waging between both Countries, I vote for Croatia. Turkey is very nice, very good food, and a lot of beautiful places, but the boat rental is almost our complete fee in Croatia. Also they don't have monofleet. Yes they have 15 Bavaria's 46, but in 4 different marinas, the sails are not the same, also other equipment is different. The service regarding boats - I don't know what to expect there, what if something broke on the boat, etc...etc.... So I decided to prepare my offer in Croatia again, and you will decide if you want to participate.

Please talk to your crews, and then let me know if you are willing to participate in WPSC 2024 under the Iccadria organization in Croatia.

WPSC 2024
Time and venue:
28.09. to 5.10.2024 in Marina Hramina on Murter island, Bavaria 46 with gennaker
- fee will be over 5.000,00 € + 500,00 € at the registration
or
12.10. to 19.10.2024 in Marina Hramina on Murter island, Bavaria 41 with gennaker
- fee will be cca 4.500,00 € + 450,00 € at the registration

Fee includes:

Sailing area

Sailing area: WPSC 2024 will start in Marina Hramina on Murter island. Plan is to visit some islands at the National parks Kornati and Telašćica, Island Zut and Island Iž. On the list is again Biograd na moru, where we always have the best time and food.

Regarding the weather we will choose the 4 different places from this list. Only more than 40kn of wind can stop us.

The plan of the boat

Crew: On WPSC regatta is allowed to compete only police officers – active, retired or former. You are staying on the yacht, because we are also sailing to other destinations in the area.

Airports/transfers: biggest is Zagreb and then by renting a car, then nearest airports Split or Zadar. Marina will organize the shuttle by the fee of circa 100 € one direction.

Stay safe -

Best regards
Franjo

#Franjo Stančin
ICCADRIA
E-mail: info@iccadria.com
Mobile phone: 00 386 41 715 204
Web: www.iccadria.com

A splendid selection of pictures & videos can be viewed via the ICCA website

#Franjo Stančin
ICCADRIA
E-mail: info@iccadria.com
Mobile phone: 00 386 41 715 204
Web: www.iccadria.com

Our promo video is here. It's made by video clips taken this year of the ICCA regatta in Murter. Anyhow its dedicated to all the ICCA family. Here is the link on YouTube where you can find it. Enjoy it please..

15th World Police Sailing Championships

23-28 September, 2018
Hramina, Murter island, Croatia

Overall Results
provided with thanks to Franjo Stančin

Sailed: 10, Discards: 1, To count: 9, Entries: 14, Scoring system: Appendix A

Rank	Skipper	Club	Country	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	R10*	Total	Nett
1st	Mitja Vehovec	Slovenia PST	Slovenia	2.0	2.0	3.0	2.0	4.0	1.0	(5.0)	1.0	3.0	2.0	25.0	20.0
2nd	Roger Schumacher	Lucerne PST	Switzerland	3.0	4.0	(10.0)	1.0	3.0	3.0	1.0	2.0	2.0	4.0	33.0	23.0
3rd	John McVae	PSNI 2	Northern Ireland	5.0	(6.0)	1.0	3.0	1.0	2.0	2.0	3.0	4.0	6.0	33.0	27.0
4th	David Blakemore	Pacific	Australia	8.0	1.0	4.0	(11.0)	2.0	4.0	7.0	4.0	1.0	10.0	52.0	41.0
5th	Rolf Lange	German Oldies	Germany	1.0	7.0	2.0	6.0	7.0	(9.0)	4.0	5.0	5.0	8.0	54.0	45.0
6th	Nick Mason	Met Police SC	Great Britain	4.0	3.0	5.0	5.0	5.0	6.0	6.0	8.0	(10.0)	16.0	68.0	58.0
7th	Andreas Neumann	Austria Police	Austria	7.0	(15.0 DNF)	8.0	4.0	6.0	10.0	8.0	7.0	6.0	12.0	83.0	68.0
8th	Dominique Thurner	KaPo Zurich	Switzerland	6.0	5.0	9.0	9.0	8.0	8.0	(12.0)	9.0	8.0	14.0	88.0	76.0
9th	Justin Shave	Hong Kong	Hong Kong	10.0	10.0	(14.0)	8.0	9.0	7.0	9.0	6.0	7.0	18.0	98.0	84.0
10th	Karl Stefan Holm	Go For The Money	Sweden	(15.0 DSQ)	13.0	6.0	10.0	10.0	5.0	3.0	11.0	11.0	20.0	104.0	89.0
11th	Andreas Schroder	Schleswig Holstein	Germany	(13.0)	11.0	12.0	7.0	11.0	11.0	11.0	10.0	13.0	22.0	121.0	108.0
12th	Gary Bowers	Waterguard	Great Britain	9.0	8.0	7.0	(14.0)	14.0	13.0	10.0	13.0	9.0	28.0	125.0	111.0
13th	Bryan Tucker	Dorset Police	Great Britain	11.0	9.0	13.0	13.0	13.0	(14.0)	13.0	12.0	12.0	24.0	134.0	120.0
14th	Yohnatan Kach	PCV Sailing Team	Switzerland	12.0	12.0	11.0	11.5	12.0	12.0	(14.0)	14.0	14.0	26.0	139.0	125.0
* Race 10 counted for double points

For a selection of pictures taken at the event, See: http://www.iccadria.com/en/gallery/wpsc-2018/

See our 'Reports & Stories' Section for a short report on the event.

15th World Police Sailing Championships

23-28 September, 2018
Hramina, Murter island, Croatia

Overall Results
provided with thanks to Franjo Stančin

Sailed: 10, Discards: 1, To count: 9, Entries: 14, Scoring system: Appendix A

Rank	Skipper	Club	Country	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	R10*	Total	Nett
1st	Mitja Vehovec	Slovenia PST	Slovenia	2.0	2.0	3.0	2.0	4.0	1.0	(5.0)	1.0	3.0	2.0	25.0	20.0
2nd	Roger Schumacher	Lucerne PST	Switzerland	3.0	4.0	(10.0)	1.0	3.0	3.0	1.0	2.0	2.0	4.0	33.0	23.0
3rd	John McVae	PSNI 2	Northern Ireland	5.0	(6.0)	1.0	3.0	1.0	2.0	2.0	3.0	4.0	6.0	33.0	27.0
4th	David Blakemore	Pacific	Australia	8.0	1.0	4.0	(11.0)	2.0	4.0	7.0	4.0	1.0	10.0	52.0	41.0
5th	Rolf Lange	German Oldies	Germany	1.0	7.0	2.0	6.0	7.0	(9.0)	4.0	5.0	5.0	8.0	54.0	45.0
6th	Nick Mason	Met Police SC	Great Britain	4.0	3.0	5.0	5.0	5.0	6.0	6.0	8.0	(10.0)	16.0	68.0	58.0
7th	Andreas Neumann	Austria Police	Austria	7.0	(15.0 DNF)	8.0	4.0	6.0	10.0	8.0	7.0	6.0	12.0	83.0	68.0
8th	Dominique Thurner	KaPo Zurich	Switzerland	6.0	5.0	9.0	9.0	8.0	8.0	(12.0)	9.0	8.0	14.0	88.0	76.0
9th	Justin Shave	Hong Kong	Hong Kong	10.0	10.0	(14.0)	8.0	9.0	7.0	9.0	6.0	7.0	18.0	98.0	84.0
10th	Karl Stefan Holm	Go For The Money	Sweden	(15.0 DSQ)	13.0	6.0	10.0	10.0	5.0	3.0	11.0	11.0	20.0	104.0	89.0
11th	Andreas Schroder	Schleswig Holstein	Germany	(13.0)	11.0	12.0	7.0	11.0	11.0	11.0	10.0	13.0	22.0	121.0	108.0
12th	Gary Bowers	Waterguard	Great Britain	9.0	8.0	7.0	(14.0)	14.0	13.0	10.0	13.0	9.0	28.0	125.0	111.0
13th	Bryan Tucker	Dorset Police	Great Britain	11.0	9.0	13.0	13.0	13.0	(14.0)	13.0	12.0	12.0	24.0	134.0	120.0
14th	Yohnatan Kach	PCV Sailing Team	Switzerland	12.0	12.0	11.0	11.5	12.0	12.0	(14.0)	14.0	14.0	26.0	139.0	125.0
* Race 10 counted for double points

For a selection of pictures taken at the event, See: http://www.iccadria.com/en/gallery/wpsc-2018/

See our 'Reports & Stories' Section for a short report on the event.

The 2016 World Police Sailing Championships were held between 10-17th September in Croatia, based in Split and saw 17 crews compete in matched Benetau 35 foot yachts.

The Met were represented by two teams, Met A, skippered by Mason King and Met B skippered by John Oldham. The Met B team were the current holders of the World Title from 2014 and the Met A team are the current National Champions from last year's PSUK event on the Solent. John Oldham had his usual crew from years gone by and Mason King had a changed crew from his usual team, due mainly to annual leave constraints. Both the crews were partly funded by the MPAA but the vast majority of the entry, charter, accommodation and flight costs were paid for by the crews.

Other crews included PSNI, Devon and Cornwall, City of London, Dorset, Switzerland, Holland, Germany, UK Customs, Hong Kong and Slovinia. Out of the 17 boats entered there were 8 from the UK! A really good UK police showing.

The format of racing was to be a standard two and a half lap windward/leeward course and the organisers, from Slovinia, were aiming for 3 races per day with a total of 12 races for the week.

The weather was forecast as scorching hot with very light winds for the whole week....it turned out to be an accurate forecast!

The first day was to be typical of the week, with no wind until lunchtime the boats headed out to the race area about 4 miles away at about midday in the hunt for a steady wind....all week the average wind speed was 7-10 knots....tricky!

On day 1 the Swiss team, who had been in Croatia with the Hong Kong team the previous week for some practice, put down their marker as the dominant team for the week with a 1st and 2nd place and racing was drawn to a close after two races due to the wind dying. The two Met teams scored a 3rd and a 7th place and a 4th and 7th. Both teams tried to get the hang of the boats and the tricky conditions.

Day two saw John Oldham's Met B crew showing consistency, putting in two top 3 places. Not so the Met A crew, who put in a disappointing performance with some average starts and a slight lack of experience across the crew, which cost them dearly.

Determined to show an improvement the Met A team pulled their socks up on day 3 with a 3rd place in the only race of the day, as the wind died completely halfway through race 2 which was abandoned as a result. Met B scored a 4th.

Although the crews all set off slightly earlier on day 4 in the hope and hunt for wind, it just did not happen and all racing on day 4 was abandoned, with the championships finishing with only 5 races having been sailed, all in very light wind. Slightly disappointing to say the least.

The overall results were Swiss 1st place, Dutch 2nd place and John Oldham's Met B crew winning a well deserved podium place with 3rd. The Met A team finished in a below par 7th place overall.

It was a great week though and we couldn't complain about the amount of sunshine, racing in shorts and T shirts all week, but more and varying wind strengths would have been welcome! Many thanks to Frenk from Slovenia who did a fantastic job organising the event which was superbly run. Kastela Marina in Split were also fantastic hosts.

The next World Championships are scheduled for the September 2018, also to be held in Croatia. The Met offshore racing fraternity are always looking for crews to race with them, mostly in the UK, so if you are interested, please contact the club or John or Mason direct.

13th Police World Sailing Championships
incorporating the PSUK Yacht Racing Championships 2014
held on 18th -23rd May, 2014

The annual P.S.U.K. Offshore Sailing Championships this year took on an international flavour. The Metropolitan Police Sailing Club (M.P.S.C.) had previously taken on responsibility for staging the 2014 UK Championships. Then, during the early stages of planning this event, the club was approached and asked if they would consider staging the Worlds. Australia had previously indicated an intention to stage the Worlds but retracted their offer after not finding a suitable charter fleet.

The World Police Sailing Championships is a bi-annual event and this year was the 13th. The 2010 Worlds took place in Phuket, Thailand and the 2012 event in Hong Kong.

The M.P.S.C. Committee agreed to stage the 2014 Worlds and it was decided that the UK and Worlds could be combined and run in tandem. This meant that all UK teams taking part in the UK Championships would also be eligible to compete in the Worlds.

At the close of entries twelve UK teams had entered and Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands and Hong Kong had signed up to compete in the Worlds.

The Championships were staged in the Solent and Sunsail’s 40 foot Beneteau fleet were chartered. The Sunsail race officer was none other than Pete Walters, retired Nottingham officer and helm of the Nottingham team that has won on numerous occasions over previous years.

Teams assembled at Port Solent on Sunday, 18th May to take over their yachts in preparation for the five day event. The foreign teams had made strenuous efforts to prepare themselves; the Hong Kong Team had chartered an identical yacht in Greece the previous week for race practice. The Swiss team had taken a two day Sunsail course in order to equip themselves to deal with the strong Solent tides, an element they were hitherto unfamiliar with.

From the Monday to Friday a total of twelve races took place, all in the Solent, except for a ‘Round the island’ race on the Thursday. Weather conditions during the week were variable with teams experiencing winds from force two to five. Thursday’s 'Round the island' produced some "interesting" weather with crews subjected to a violent thunder storm and hail stones whilst racing south of the island.

The UK Championships were won by The Metropolitan ‘B’ team skippered by Stuart Jenkins. The Met team achieved no less than six wins from the twelve races. The Metropolitan ‘A’ team were second with four wins and Hampshire were placed third overall. Full results of all races are published elsewhere on this website.

The Worlds overall positions were Met ‘B’ first, Met ‘A’ second, Switzerland third and Hong Kong fourth.

During the week yachts were berthed at The U.K. Sailing Academy in Cowes where meals and bar facilities were made available for crews. On the Tuesday evening a dinner was held at Royal Corinthian Yacht Club, Cowes. This function was attended by Sara Thornton, Thames Valley Chief Constable and chairman of the PSUK Sailing Section. The guest speaker was Nick Craig, six times winner of the Endeavour Trophy. Nick is one of the greatest amateur dinghy sailors of all time with seven world championship titles in a variety of dinghy classes attained over the past decade.

The chosen charity for this year’s event was The Ellen McArthur Trust, and a short presentation was given on the work of the trust, a charity raffle run during the dinner raised Ł1,054.

Next year’s UK Championships will be run by Cleveland Police, no doubt using the Solent venue. The 2016 Worlds venue has yet to be decided, but Germany have already volunteered to host the 2018 Championships.

Police World Sailing Championships 2014
Boat No.	Skipper	Mate	Team	Race 1	Race 2	Race 3	Race 4	Race 5	Race 6	Race 7	Race 8	Race 9	Race 10	Race 11	Race 12	Subtotal	Discard	Discard	Total Points	Final Result
4014	Stuart Jenkins	Nick Mason	Met Police	2	1	5	3	2	1	1	1	1	3	1	5	26	5	5	16	1
4006	Mason King	Bob Mahoney	Met Police	1	2	17	1	1	4	9	2	5	6	5	1	54	9	17	28	2
4029	Roger Schumacher	Franz Vogal	Switzerland	4	5	1	2	8	2	2	3	4	2	17	8	58	17	8	33	3
4031	Justin Shave	Paul Stripp	Hong Kong	6	3	4	7	6	5	8	9	2	1	2	2	55	9	8	38	4
4022	Andrew Buchanan	Richard Griffiths	Hampshire Police	5	4	3	6	11	8	5	8	6	4	10	6	76	10	11	55	5
4008	Alan Beckett	John Snowden	National Crime Agency	9	10	9	5	5	12	7	6	3	5	6	4	81	10	12	59	6
4011	Philip Quinn	Clive Patterson	Northern Ireland	7	12	10	17	3	6	3	7	10	9	3	12	99	12	17	70	7
4027	Ian Ingram	Andrew Carter	West Midlands Police	3	8	11	17	4	11	4	11	14	7	9	7	106	14	17	75	8
4019	Jason Crammer	Lee Mosscrop	Met Police	8	15	7	4	17	9	17	4	12	10	11	3	117	17	17	83	9
4003	Rolfe Lange	Kurt Haarmeyer	Germany	10	7	2	12	9	15	10	13	8	12	4	11	113	13	15	85	10
4026	Marcel Migchelsen	Arthur de Rijk	Netherlands	11	6	6	8	7	3	12	10	9	14	13	17	116	14	17	85	11
4016	Henry Scutt	Andrew Barker	Warwickshire Police	13	9	14	10	10	7	6	5	13	15	8	17	127	15	14	98	12
4028	Tony Riordan	Iain Tribick	Cleveland Police	12	13	11	9	14	14	11	12	7	14	7	17	141	17	14	110	13
4013	Dave Frey	Kevin Wallis	Sussex Police	16	11	12	11	12	10	13	15	11	8	12	10	141	15	16	110	14
4001	Graham Higginson	Charles Pitman	Devon and Cornwall	14	14	13	13	15	13	15	16	16	13	14	9	165	16	16	133	15
4023	Stan Thingsaker	John Walsh	Herts Police	15	16	15	14	13	16	14	14	15	16	15	13	176	16	16	144	16

The 12th Police World Sailing Championships were held in Hong Kong on 21st-27th October, 2012.

For further information, please contact Mr. Joe Tsang, Secretary General IPA Hong Kong by email.

Over the years the IPA sailing fraternity have taken an interest in many international police sailing events and an information document (an Adobe .pdf file) regarding the history and current plans is now available for viewing.

11th Police World Sailing Championship 2010
11th-18th September, 2010 at Lake Constance

The 10th Police World Sailing Championship was held in Koudum, Freisland, in the Netherlands from 13th until 21st September 2008.

10 teams took part representing police teams from Germany, Croatia, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Norway and Holland. The United Kingdom was not represented..

The event was organised by the Friesland Holland Police Sailing Team, contactable via Email to: info@frieslandholland.nl or to Nico Nuyen .

9th Police World Sailing Championship
Phuket, Thailand.
28th October to 4th November, 2006.

The 9th World Police Championships held in Phuket, Thailand drew teams from Europe, Asia and Australasia - with competitors arriving to practise in the previous week before embarking on the hard fought race series in the second week.

The Hong Kong Police Sailing Team emerged as the overall winners of the 10-race series after beating teams from Holland, Australia, Switzerland and England.

During the week, winds were variable but averaged about 6 knots, rising to about 10 towards the end of the week. The lighter winds disadvantaged crews using SO 40s - Switzerland and UK. The boats were allocated by a draw with the majority of the skippers voting to retain the boat drawn on day one. The disparity in the boats resulted in a decision by the skippers that future events will only be held where sufficient boats of the same design are available.

The bulk of the fleet were using SO 350s that were fairly evenly matched. As can be seen from the results the racing was very competitive and the final result was only determined on the final day.

2006 Organiser: Chief Superintendent David Madoc-Jones - madocjones@hotmail.com

The next World Championships will be hosted by the Dutch Police at Freisland in Holland in September 2008, where a significantly larger fleet will be made available.

More information is available on www.ncp.hr , by e-mail: ana.gojceta@ncp.hr
From Aug 2009, Ana's new email address is: ana@amadeusadriatic.hr
or by phone call: +00 385 99 312 0181 (Miss Ana Gojceta)

See 'Reports & Stories' section of this website for results etc., of this event



17th Police World Sailing Championships 2024
	16th Police World Sailing Championships 2022 15th Police World Sailing Championships 2018
	14th Police World Sailing Championships 2016
	13th Police World Sailing Championships 2014 incorporating the PSUK Yacht Racing Championships 2014
Sailing at the World Police and Fire Games 2013	12th Police World Sailing Championships 2012
	11th Police World Sailing Championship 2010
IPA Adriatic Cup 2009	10th Police World Sailing Championship 2008
IPA Adriatic Cup 2008	9th Police World Sailing Championship 2006
	Police World Sailing Championships Previous hosts
Results for previous WPSC and Coppers Cup regattas also appear on the ICCA page: http://www.iccadria.com/en/content/icca/results-archives.html

9th Police World Sailing Championship 9 races to count - 1 discard
Team	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	R10	Pts	Pos
Hong Kong A	1	1	1	1	1	2	3	4	1	3	14	1st
Amsterdam	2	2	4	3	2	1	2	1	2	1	16	2nd
Friesland	3	3	6	2	4	3	1	2	8	2	26	3rd
Australia	5	4	3	6	3	5	9	3	4	4	37	4th
Out of T'Blue	4	5	2	4	6	4	4	5	6	5	39	5th
Switzerland	7	7	7	5	5	7	7	8	3	6	54	6th
Hong Kong B	6	6	5	7	7	6	5	6	7	7	55	7th
Dorset, UK	8	8	8	8	8	8	6	7	5	8	66	8th

Year	Location	Organiser
1991	Solent	UK
1993	Baltic	Germany
1995	Adriatic	Austria
1997	Adriatic	Croatia
1999	Adriatic	Slovenia
2000	Adriatic	Croatia
2002	Adriatic	Croatia
2004	Phuket, Thailand	Hong Kong
2006	Phuket, Thailand	Hong Kong
2008	Koudum, Freisland, Holland	Friesland Police Sailing Team

15th World Police Sailing Championships

23-28 September, 2018 Hramina, Murter island, Croatia

Overall Results provided with thanks to Franjo Stančin

15th World Police Sailing Championships

23-28 September, 2018 Hramina, Murter island, Croatia

Overall Results provided with thanks to Franjo Stančin

23-28 September, 2018
Hramina, Murter island, Croatia

Overall Results
provided with thanks to Franjo Stančin

23-28 September, 2018
Hramina, Murter island, Croatia

Overall Results
provided with thanks to Franjo Stančin