Since the very first World Championship, the International Melges 24 Class has always had a clear understanding of what the Corinthian division would bring to the Melges 24 platform.
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With the first Melges 24 World Championship set to open in a couple of days, many teams have been in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida preparing, tuning and soaking up the warm Florida sunshine as they get ready to embark upon racing in the most highly competitive Class event of the year.
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The time has almost come for the International Melges 24 Fleet to get back out on the water. With a little more than one week to go until the start of the 2022 Melges 24 World Championship, the International Melges 24 Class Association (IM24CA) and U.S. Melges 24 Class Association (USM24CA) are excited to see the World Championship finally happening again, since the 2019 Worlds in Italy was canceled as a result of the pandemic.
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Now, three-time Charleston Race Week Champion Travis Weisleder led from start to finish to earn a three-peat in the Melges 24 class. Mark Mendelblatt returned as tactician aboard Lucky Dog, which won 8 of 10 races, posting just 11 points – a whopping 23 less than runner-up and 2022 Charleston Race Week Corinthian Champion Fraser McMillan racing Sunnyvale.
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After two days of racing, Travis Weisleder and his Lucky Dog team remain on track for a third straight Charleston Race Week (2021, 2019) win in the Melges 24 Class. The Richmond, Virginia skipper has gotten the gun in six of eight races and now boasts a low score of nine points.
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With four straight wins on opening day in Charleston, Travis Weisleder’s Lucky Dog pulled into the early lead position at Race Week. Chasing Weisleder in second is his fellow 2019 North American Corinthian Champion Fraser McMillan on Sunnyvale from Canada. Harry Melges IV on Zenda Express rounds out the podium in third.
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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 Bacardi Winter Series and Bacardi Invitational Regatta are once again returning to Miami, USA, for the 2022-2023 racing season.
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Kent Sisk and team on Pulse, USA-719 took the win at the Southeastern Inland Championship just ahead Steve Pirie and team on Rumbunctious, USA-744 in second. Brent McKenzie and team on Ex Kahn, USA-575 finished in 3rd.
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North Sails will provide training and coaching for teams competing in the Worlds without a dedicated coach, helping amateur sailors square off against some of the best in the world.
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The weather front that was expected to sweep through Biscayne Bay after racing on Saturday, March 12, arrived early, with the strong wind forcing racing to be cancelled for all classes at 0900 hours this morning.
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Getting into groove straight away for the 9-race series was 2021 and 2020 BCIR champion Bora Gulari (USA) with his team on ‘Powered by Moms’. He followed up with a 4th in race 2, but then Gulari and two other boats were over the line for the start of race 3, so will need the discard to kick in after race 6 to get back in the frame.
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For the U.S. Melges 24 Class there are two rankings in play at the Bacardi Cup. It marks the third and final stage of the 2021-2022 Winter Series which commenced last December. It is also the second event on the newly started U.S. National Ranking Series for 2022.
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With 215 sailboats registered and more than 2,000 sailors from Florida and around the country, the national Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series opens this weekend, February 18-20, in St. Petersburg with the largest fleet yet in the regatta’s 34-year history.
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Organizers from the Lauderdale Yacht Club (LYC) in cooperation with the the International Melges 24 Class Association (IM24CA) and US Melges 24 Class Association (USM24CA) are pleased to announce the Notice of Race and website along with online entry portal are published for the Melges 24 World Championship 2022 held in Fort Lauderdale, FL USA over 7-15 May 2022.
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A huge congratulations is in order for Melges 24 Owners Laura Grondin and Harry Melges IV, and sailors at large: Taylor Canfield, Erik Shampain and Dave Hughes as they have been nominated for US Sailing’s prestigious Rolex Yachtsman and Yachtswoman of the Year award .
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All change in the weather on the final day at Bacardi Winter Series, January 28-30 2022, with sun and a chilly north north-westerly 7-12 knot breeze.
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Day 2 at Bacardi Winter Series, January 28-30 2022, dawned as forecast with a big breeze of 27+ knots and gusts up to 39 on Biscayne Bay, Miami, forcing the Melges 24s to be postponed ashore. Not all bad though, as teams enjoyed the stunning and convivial host venue of Shake-a-Leg-Miami (SALM).
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A slow start to the opening race of the day for all fleets at Bacardi Winter Series event 2 on January 28, with the light fluky breeze ensuring the notorious Biscayne Bay race track lived up to its reputation.
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Event 2 of the Bacardi Winter Series, 28-30 January 2022, features 21 Melges 24 teams. Hosted at Shake-A-Leg-Miami (SALM), three days of racing will pitch the provisional entry list of over fifty teams against each other and the ever challenging race track of Biscayne Bay.
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