Foiling is not the future for everybody

For those that contend foiling is the future of sailing, the OK Dinghy Class wants a word with you. The 13-foot singlehanded boat from the 1950s remains active in more than 40 countries, and the 2026 World Championship will be the second largest of all time with 207 entries from 14 nations coming to Skovshoved, Denmark.

With racing on June 8-12, the event returns to Denmark for the first time since 2012, in a country that is home to the second largest OK Dinghy fleet in the world. It also comes at the 70th anniversary of the first OK Dinghy, built and launched in Bandholm in the south of the country, by Knud Olsen, in 1956. His reversed initials gave the boat its name.

Until 2025 Denmark held the record for the largest worlds held – 145 in Vallensbæk in 2012. It seemed a huge number at the time, and it took until 2023, in Lyme Regis, to get close again. Then, in 2025, 212 OK Dinghies turned up for the first ever world championship on Lake Garda to set a record many thought would stand for a long time.

Details: https://2026.okworlds.org/