Welcome to 2021!

As most of us could not see the end of 2020 any quicker, we prepped ourselves for 2021 with certain expectations that it could only get better!

And then…

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Yes. I was quite speechless when the new lockdown restrictions were announced and crashed my hopes….

HOWEVER, the only way out of this is to move forward, and so the entire committee yet again rolled their sleeves and continued to plan and improve so that we can make the best out of the situation we are in.

Our Sailing Secretary Keith Videlo together with our PRO Paul Jackson and other team members are working in the background preparing for the season kick off. We want to be ready for when the situation improves and government gives us a green light for normality to start resuming. We hope to run as many events listed in the calendar as possible, but safety of all comes first, so lets be patient.

Apart from the qualifiers and nationals, we are getting ready for training and Grand Prix Circuits to resume and are very much looking forward to welcoming as many of you as possible at Super Grand Prix Events. Further details from Tony can be found here.

Our head of Media and Comms - Guy Noble also has been extremely busy since his day one. Guy has come with en exciting vision to bring UKLA archives into the daylight and to continue to capture UKLA’s history in the making. You may have wondered what happened to Gybe? Gybe took a break after our lovely editor Alison moved on to another project and Guy will be bringing it back to you in a newly redesigned format as a Year Book. All singing and dancing big thanks go to Guy for devoting his time to this project which should be landing on your doorstep very soon.