SKANDIA Team GBR is the British Sailing Team in the Olympic and Paralympic classes.

The team consists of the Performance Squad and Development and Transitional squads, which jointly total around 70 sailors.

The sailors train and compete across 10 Olympic Classes: Finn, Laser Radial, Laser, 470 men and women, 49er, Star, NeilPryde RS:X men and women windsurfers and, new for London 2012, Women’s Olympic Classes Match Racing.

There are three Paralympic Classes: the Sonar, 2.4mR and SKUD18.

Great Britain is the world’s top Olympic classes sailing nation with the British Olympic team sailors topping the medal table at the past three Games in 2000, 2004 and 2008.

In a new Dorset Echo column, Skandia Team GBR members will be bringing an insight into the campaign for glory in 2012.

Here’s Portland’s Megan Pascoe, who is campaigning for 2012 selection in the 2.4mR class, on her experience at the Miami World Cup regatta.

FOURTH. It’s not quite a medal and it’s a bit like getting the wooden spoon.

I’m happy with how I was sailing and am looking forward to the summer season in Europe. I’ve loaded my boat in the container but still have to strap it down tomorrow.

I don’t advise taking keelboats on a half a mile walk. They are heavy!

On January 10, I heard some surprising but very welcome news. The doctors had reversed their decision so I was allowed back in the 2012 trials. It’s a decision that I wasn’t expecting but is very exciting.

Due to health reasons I was forced to withdraw from the 2012 Paralympic trials at the end of last year.

I was still sailing, I just wasn’t allowed to sail single handers so I used this time to get as much experience in as many other boats as possible.

The doctors’ decision reversal meant I could compete in the Miami World Cup regatta in Florida which started on the January 23.

It was hard going into the event with so little preparation but I had a great team around me and it was a good event.

It was incredibly tight racing. I started the event in third place overall, then slipped to fourth after a tricky day’s racing before moving up to third again on day four.

Going into the final day’s racing, there was only eight points separating 2nd and 6th place.

I finished fourth and all in all the Olympic classes regatta was an ok event.

Now we are training for the next couple of months until Princess Sofia in Palma begins at the beginning of April.

• Follow Megan’s progress at pascoegb.co.uk