Chairman's message to all Competitors and Volunteers who attended the UKLA 2020 Nationals @WPNSA

We all knew our Nationals would be a very different Regatta in these Covid 19 affected times.

When Mounts Bay had to withdraw from hosting our 2020 Nationals due to the Covid epidemic, there was one venue that we knew operated at the level of professionalism that would give us the confidence to plan a Covid safe 2020 Nationals when other Classes were cancelling their events on a daily basis. I think you will agree that our confidence was well placed - Pete, Sally and their team at WPNSA have set the gold standard on hosting a top-flight Regatta in these challenging times.

We had to change many things at the venue from how the dinghy park was laid out to ‘no changing rooms’, but of course the biggest change was to our behavior, we all had to change ourselves, to make it a Covid safe Regatta.

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I would personally like to thank you all, the Competitors, Volunteers, friends and family, for adapting so well to all the new rules and regulations and making our 2020 Nationals, great racing and great fun.

The Nationals was very much a learning event for all of us, some of the changes will I suspect become permanent features – The evening 8pm ‘Zoom Hangs’ – will I’m sure become a regular at all our future events.

Well done to everybody for contributing to what was undoubtedly a cutting-edge event and one we will take a lot of learnings from and share with the broader sailing community as we all get back afloat.

Brilliant racing from you all, a Champagne event, in difficult times

See you on the water,

Rob

UKLA Chair

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