Based in North Shields, Ovington Boats produces a range of high-performance dinghies.
This year’s International OK Dinghy World Championship will be held from 26 February to 2 March 2024. The joint sponsors for the Great Britain team at the 2024 OK Dinghy World Championship are Pro-Set Epoxy and Ovington Boats. The OK Dinghy World Championship is set to take place in Brisbane, Australia, following a pre-world regatta […]
Just over 12 months from doubling its factory size, Ovington Boats has completed its 1,000th ILCA dinghy. The British boatbuilder made the prototypes for approval in August 2020, building ten to get its licence, and says it hasn’t looked back since. The ILCA is a single-handed racing dinghy, which sits among a further thirteen dinghies […]
Epoxy brand Pro-Set has announced its sponsorship of the International OK Dinghy 2023 World Championships, to be held at Lyme Regis Sailing Club, UK, 22-30 June 2023. The event – consisting of ten races – is expected to attract over 100 competitors from New Zealand, Australia, Germany, Demark, Holland, Sweden, France and Norway among other […]
Sea Sure, the Warsash-based manufacturer of dinghy transom products like pintles, gudgeons and rudder stocks, has collaborated with Ovington Boats to design and manufacture a lifting rudder to fit to an OK dinghy. This comes after the OK class requested a lifting rudder option so that launching, and recovery, are straightforward and safe, particularly in […]