French Class Announces 2009 Regatta Dates

The French Class has restructured its agenda for the next years. They have choose three major events based on classic and successfull races with fixed dates in the season

First event, in April (10 to 13), with the sun and the mistral is the SNIM in Marseille.

Second event in May (21 to 25), is the NATIONAL OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP during the very successfull OPEN DE L’ECOLE NAVALE (BREST). This classic event is perfectly organised with perfect logistic in the bay of BREST on the military site of the ECOLE NAVALE. For this event the French class, has made a deal with the British class which is including the French Open in its Ranking Series for this year. This choice will also be a good deal for mid and north Europe teams in May for this and next year.

Third event is a very classic and succesfull NOVEMBRE A HYERES, which is also the French Federation’s Open Championship

And this year at the end of August ( 20 to 29 ) I’m sure all the European teams and more, will be in HYERES TO RACE FOR THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP in the same dates and conditions as 2006 Worlds.

All these events and entry details are now posted on the french sites WWW.MELGES24.FR, with the name of the class officer in charge of each event

From Denis INFANTE, president of the french class d.infante@euro-voiles.com