Happy Halloween everyone! Here in Annapolis the sun is shining this morning and the temperatures are rising at last with a promise of mid 60s by this afternoon.
The Eastport Yacht Club race committee got into the spirit of things this morning by welcoming all the competitors to the race course with a Halloween pumpkin on the roof of the committee boat.
Terry Hutchinson showed his true class today, on the third day of the 2008 Melges 24 North American Championships in Annapolis, Md. Faced with two light airs races whist leading a major championship, others may have crumbled under the pressure.
The Race Committee stepped up the pace today at the 2008 Melges 24 North American Championship, running four excellent races (race four to seven in the 12 race series) in winds ranging from 10 15 knots.
IMCA Photographer Paul Todd was hard at work out on the race course today and already a selection of him images is posted at OUR PHOTO GALLERY. Paul's still processing and images right now and more will be added shortly.
After a spectacular day of racing in Annapolis at the 2008 Melges 24 North American Championship, it is 2007 World Champion Dave Ullman on Pegasus 505 who tops the leader board by three points from another previous world champ, Flavio Favini on SUI 521 Blu Moon.
On the eve of the International Melges 24 2008 North American Championship being hosted by the Eastport YC in Annapolis, Maryland this week, virtually all of the forty-nine competing teams are through finished registration and have successfully launched their boats.
Annapolis - 12.55pm - With regular gusts of up to 40 knots sweeping through Annapolis at the moment PRO Jeff Borland has wisely cancelled racing for today.
The IMCA BLOG for the 2008 North American Championship is now live and being regularly updated so go bookmark the BLOG now and keep checking in regularly for all the latest from this event.
There is no mistaking the quality of the fleet which will assemble at the Eastport YC in Annapolis, Md., next week for the International Melges 24 2008 North American Championship. A glance at the entry list shows it to be studded with Olympians, serial world champions and America’s Cup veterans.
