Get ready for exciting Melges 24 racing on Pensacola Bay this fall. The Pensacola Yacht Club and the U.S. Melges 24 Class Association will bring on three fall regattas within two weeks of each other that offer M24 class one-design racing at its finest.
Read MoreOnline registration is now open for the 2022 U.S. Melges 24 National Championship, hosted by Pensacola Yacht Club in Pensacola, FL on November 10-13. Being held in conjunction with PYC’s Bushwhacker Cup, three days of some of the best world-class sailing is scheduled.
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Read MoreThe 2022 U.S. Melges 24 Class' National Ranking Series (NRS) concluded its fifth of nine events this past weekend at the Bayview Regatta in Detroit, MI. Flying high on the charts since Charleston Race Week, Travis Weisleder at the helm of Lucky Dog has a small, but comfortable lead ahead of 2022 World Champion Peter Duncan sailing Raza Mixta currently in second place.
Read MoreTwo of five events on the 2022 Quantum Melges 24 Great Lakes Cup Series are complete with Canada’s Mike Gozzard at the helm of Rush in the overall lead.
Read MoreOnline registration for the Columbia Gorge One Design Regatta hosted by the Columbia Gorge Racing Association is now open. The event takes place on July 29-31 in Cascade Locks, OR and is also designated as the 2022 Melges 24 Pacific Northwest Championship.
Read MoreIt is with a heavy heart that the U.S. Melges 24 Class has learned of the passing of fellow sailor Hayden Goodrick. Hayden was very much a part of the Melges 24 family and we are saddened by this sudden, heartbreaking news.
Read MoreOnline registration for the Bayview One Design Regatta is now available. Earmarked as the second event on the 2022 Quantum Melges 24 Great Lake Cup circuit and the fifth on the U.S. Melges 24 Class National Ranking Series, the Bayview event is going to be a blast.
Read MoreThis forthcoming weekend, the 2022 Quantum Great Lakes Cup kicks off with 15 Melges 24 teams ready to go for the trophy. The five-part regatta Series is a major wind up in the Midwest as it marks the official start for the spring and summer racing season.
Read MorePeter Duncan is the 2022 Melges 24 World Champion with tactician Victor Diaz de Leon, and crew Erik Shampain, Matt Pistay and Morgan Trubovich racing Raza Mixta. Duncan was followed by Harry Melges IV on Zenda Express in second place and Bruce Ayres’ Monsoon in third. Niccolo Bertola at the helm of Taki 4 took home his 4th consecutive Corinthian World Championship title with Giacomo Fossati, Giovanni Bannetta, Pietro Seghezza and Marco Zammarchi as crew.
Read MoreDay Four at the Melges 24 Worlds hosted by Lauderdale Yacht Club in Florida, U.S., was tricky and challenging both to sailors and Race Committee, shuffling the cards in top rankings. Thirty-one teams from five nations got two races posted to the scoreboard seeing Peter Duncan’s Raza Mixta (USA, 3-3) taking overall lead from Bora Gulari’s New England Ropes.
Read MoreFor the strong Melges 24 World Championship fleet in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, it was a bit challenging day on the water since the wind was reluctant to put in a proper appearance in the morning making the fleet wait for more than an hour increasing then up to 8 knots from South-East to get the first race started.
Read MoreThe second day of racing at 2022 Melges 24 World, hosted by Lauderdale Yacht Club (LYC) in Fort Lauderdale, delivered three excellent races sailed in bright sunshine and North-East winds of fourteen knots average.
Read MoreThirty-one Melges teams raced on a thrilling racecourse on Atlantic Ocean off Fort Lauderdale today, putting three races on the official scoreboard at the 2022 Melges 24 World Championship, hosted by Lauderdale Yacht Club (LYC). In the ultra-competitive Melges 24 fleet, to no one's surprise Bora Gulari on New England Rope (USA, 4-1-2 today) is in first, Harry Melges IV is second racing Zenda Express (USA, 1-5-5) and in third, Laura Grondin on Dark Energy (USA, 6-2-10).
Read MoreWith several days of pre-regatta registration, boat and sails inspection at Pier Sixty-Six now completed and first practice races sailed, on the eve of the official start of racing, all thirty-one boats competing at the 2022 Melges 24 World Championship in Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S, are moored in the docks of Lauderdale Yacht Club, where this evening at six o'clock will be regatta's Opening Ceremony.
Read MoreSince 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.
Read MoreWith 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreNow, 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.
Read MoreAfter 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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