Not a last minute attack of "Bah Humbug" just frustration that so many decisions & meetings are now delayed until after the New Year!  The team has been working on so many projects, news should start to come through thick & fast from mid January onwards.

New venues have been found, old favourites & some past classics revisited, funding applications made, meeting prospective, new & existing series sponsors and new race teams, received proposals from media agencies, whilst the safety team & RYA officials have kept busy reviewing & improving procedures, policies and revising 2010 rules. (Revised 2010 Branding document is already available for download and the new rules will go up over the next few days).

We even have provisional dates & venues for 2011!

Perhaps the downtime will be a blessing in disguise & we can turn our attention to the website, hit 2010 running with a new team profile section, thank you to all who have so far contributed (yes this is a gentle dig aimed at the rest of you)!

For anyone who has followed the BBC2 Three Men in a Boat series over the last couple of years make sure you tune in for episode 2 on New Years Day at 8pm - Dara O Briain and Griff Rhys Jones go for a ride in a powerboat in Ireland (we are reliably informed it is a Zapcat).