President’s greetings

Dear friends,

At the start of this new year, the AIP board wishes you a superb new year of sailing. We have some magnificent boats: let’s make the most of them!

The new Board, appointed at the close of the Annual General Meeting in November, is already hard at work. We are delighted to welcome five new members to the Board this year: Aurélia Stephan, who will be in charge of our secretariat this year, Dominique Le Guillou, Michel Boer, Christophe Jacqueline and Randall Watson. Agnès Gach and our Italian friend Giuseppe Denti now complete the team of the ever-faithful Claude Nos, Emmanuel Liron and Xavier Rouault. We’re slowly going international, but we haven’t yet reached the parity we’d like to see… Where are our valiant female skippers?

At the beginning of February, we’ll be announcing the dates of our three Pogo gatherings, one of which will bring together Italians and French, our winter training courses ashore, the dates of regattas where Pogo skippers will be able to participate, the date of our spring cruise, which this year will be heading for Norway, and of course our AIP 2024 good plans!

But our team wouldn’t be complete without the participation of the other AIP members, that’s to say you… So I invite you to show your solidarity by renewing your 2024 membership on our website, promoting our activities and letting us know what you’d like to see by simply answering a questionnaire that Michel will be proposing to you at the start of the year.

Thank you in advance for your support.

Xavier Poncet