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March thru May brings us another fantastic batch of regattas for your delight and delectation.

Introducing an new occassional column from Justin Chisholm, of the UK's Team Barbarians, who brings us a sailors eye view of life on the IMCA circuit: One of my better decisions.It is human nature to dwell on the poor decisions we make during our lives and we rarely take the time to congratulate our

Urgent Announcement From The Italian Class - The Alassio Volvo Cup, originally scheduled for last weekend (4-6 March) had to be postponed because of severe weather conditions including snow closing the motorways in Liguria.

Devoti Sailing's Paul Manning will be attending SNIM to support the Melges 24 teams competing. If you have any advance equipment or service requirements please urgently contact Paul or Kay at Devoti with details of your requirements. The deadline for equipment requests for SNIM is Friday 18 March.

The cold wave that hit Italy did not spare the Ligurian Rivera, so the last weekend of the Andora winter championship will be remembered by the extremely cold "tramontana" that tortured both the crews and the sails.

John Bertrand and his FUSION M crew of Scott Nixon, Andrew Scott and George Peet are the 2005 Melges 24 St. Petersburg NOOD Champions. They were also selected as the first team to ever accept the award for the very first Overall St. Petersburg NOOD Regatta!