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March 2005

Since the Olympics we have purposely taken a large break from 470 sailing. We wanted to use the chance to broaden our horizons a bit with other projects and opportunities, many of which we hope will help us when we get started in the 470 again. We also took a break to make sure when we got back into a 470 we would be very hungry and motivated.

We have now put together a programme for 2005, our priority is the San Francisco world championships in August. We have won silver and bronze medals in the past so to win a gold would be fantastic. Realistically this is an extremely tough goal, San Francisco has notoriously tough conditions that we will have to master and there are many tough competitors that will all be gunning for the same goal.

In June, before the World championships we have the Europeans in Poland, we will be defending our title so want to be well prepared to put up a good fight.
We want to use 2005 as a time to try new things, we have decided to reduce the number of international events and do more sailing from the new National sailing center in Weymouth focusing on the conditions we expect in San Francisco. This is going to cause us to slip down the world rankings but having been at no1 at the beginning of the year this is not something we are concerned by.

Our first event back is going to be a National ranking event at Hayling Island in May we will be slightly rusty at this point but expect to be making quick gains from then till the Europeans as we become more race sharp.

We have just had the website updated by WNW Design and have also joined forces with new sponsor VOLVO and look forward to having them on our side moving forward to 2008.