Turkey Joins The Melges 24 Family

Every week seems to bring more exciting news about the growth of the Melges 24 fleet globally at the moment and this week's good news came all the way from Istanbul where Yigit Gozubuyuk and his team raced their new Melges 24 for the very first time this past weekend. Racing amongst much bigger boats in a handicap fleet the boys had their work cut out to get any clear air and they also had to battle with a slowly dying breeze which did them no favours but they were still thrilled to be out racing and getting the feel for the boat.

Istanbul, and Turkey in general, offers fantastic conditions for Melges 24 racing and we hope it won't be very long before Yigit and his team have some one design competition.

If you would like to make contact with Yigit to find out more about racing Melges 24 in Turkey please e-mail him on goyigit@gmail.com. We will bring you more news from Istanbul and Turkey when ever we can so keep watching.