On Friday, February 23, World Sailing approved the final 2024 changes to the Melges 24 Class Rules. It published a new edition along with the document of particular changes, which came into effect immediately.
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The time has arrived and anticipation is high before tomorrow’s start of the 2023 Melges 24 North American Championship, which after four years of hiatus will be sailed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada this upcoming weekend! Hosted by the National Yacht Club (TheNYC) by a delegation of the Canadian Melges 24 Class Association (CanM24CA) under the authority of the International Melges 24 Class Association (IM24CA), the event will be held from 15 to 17 September.
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After a long process of reviewing the proposals to amend the Melges 24 Class Rules submitted by the World Council of the International Melges 24 Class Association, World Sailing has approved changes to the Melges 24 Class Rules and has published them on April 19.
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The Lauderdale Yacht Club will host the 2022 Melges 24 World Championships, Commodore Stephanie Toothaker announced today. In addition, the website is now LIVE and teams can register immediately!“We are very excited to have a World Championship for the first time since 2019,” says IM24CA Chair Laura Grondin. “SailTi is our digital platform which will offer us world class communications and tracking of our event.”
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After two years hiatus in the schedule of the Melges 24 World Championships, the International Class is hopeful to welcome Melges 24s for the 2022 Worlds to be hosted by the Lauderdale Yacht Club in co-operation with U.S. Melges 24 Class on May 9-15.
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The World Council of the International Melges 24 Class Association (IM24CA), which consists of the National Class Association chairs and the IM24CA Executive Committee, held its Annual General Meeting virtually on Saturday November 7.
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The World Council of the International Melges 24 Class Association (IM24CA), which consists of the National Class Association chairs and the IM24CA Executive Committee, voted to move the schedule of the title championship events out one year.
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On April 20 at 9 pm CET (Central Europe Time) / 3 pm EST (Eastern Time US) International Melges 24 Class Association together with Zerogradinord will host an online talk show focused on the Starting Strategies – Starboard Tack, Port Tack, Starting Strategies – via Melges 24 Facebook page.
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In light of the current global situation and feedback from local officials, the Executive Committee of the IM24CA along with Randy Draftz, our event organizer; and in consultation with Megan Ratliff, Chair of the US Melges 24 Class, reached the difficult decision to cancel the World Championship scheduled for the beginning of May.
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With the 2020 Melges 24 racing season well-under way in North America, the International Melges 24 Class Association (IM24CA) in conjunction with U.S. Melges 24 Championship Events, Inc. and Regatta Management, are in full-on preparation mode for the upcoming World Championship taking place on May 1-9.
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The U.S. Melges 24 Class Association (USM24CA) is proud to announce the long-awaited and much-anticipated National Ranking Series calendar for 2020.
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With only three months to go until the start of the 2020 World Championship (1-9 May) in Charleston, South Carolina, Melges 24 teams all over the world are steadily signing up to compete.
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The 2020 Bacardi Cup Invitational Regatta takes place in Miami on March 5-7 for the Melges 24s. Early Entry ends on February 1 - so now is the time to register and get ready to race.
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As the Class looks forward to a red hot 2020, it is super thrilled to congratulate Kevin Welch with Jeff Madrigali at the helm of MiKEY as the very first USM24CA National Ranking Champions (Open), and Megan Ratliff’s Decorum team are the big Corinthian victors.
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After a successful debut, the second edition of the Bacardi Winter Series features two events in Miami for the Melges 24 and J/70 fleets with over forty teams set for the opening battle this weekend, 14-15 December 2019.
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As it always happens at the end of the sailing seasons, the winter period represents the best time to give shape to the events that will become new chapters of the great book of sailing.
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The World Council of the International Melges 24 Class Association (IM24CA) held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Bergen, Norway on November 9th.
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From Melges Performance Sailboats - We all know that a bad start can cost you the race, so why leave it up to chance? If you sail in a class that allows you to "ping" the starting line, then you have probably fallen into the trap of doing so incorrectly.
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Charleston, S.C. USA (25 November 2019) - The 2020 Melges 24 World Championship will take place on 1-9 May 2020, in Charleston, South Carolina.
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By Talbot Wilson/Pensacola Yacht Club - The three teams leading Pensacola Yacht Club’s Melges 24 Atlantic & Gulf Coast Championship (aka the Bushwhacker Cup) after Day 1 were confirmed as the three podium finishers on Day 2.
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