The Festival of Sails and Corio Bay served up great conditions for dayone of the 2012 Melges 24 Australian Championships; sunshine, up to 20knots of wind and dolphins.
The first ever "Aarhus Melges 24 Spring Cup 2012" – will be hosted by Aarhus Sailing Club in conjunction with Sailing Aarhus. The cup consists of two seperate events held in the same place - Århus, Denmark.
The Melges 24 fleet are descending on Geelong from all over Australiato compete in the Melges 24 Australian Championships from the 26 – 29January at the Festival of Sails. This will be the largest fleet of Melges 24’s at a NationalChampionships to date.
The newly formed Ukrainian Melges 24 Class has announced the dates for its first Melges 24 Regattas and invites all Melges 24 teams to join them for these exciting inaugural events which will be held at the Ushakova Balka Yacht Club in Sevastopol on the Black Sea coast of the Crimean peninsular.
After ten amazing races, Bora Gulari, with the aid of tactician Jeremy Wilmot aboardWest Marine Rigging/New England Ropes, won the top trophy in the Melges 24 Key West division.
Bora Gulari aboardWest Marine Rigging/New England Ropesadded two more bullets to his collection on Thursday, discarding his worst finish – a sixth, to maintain a very strong lead in the Melges 24 fleet at Quantum Key West 2012.
