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One Event, Three Cups: The Swiss Open Championships 2011 has been held together with the Coppa Lino Favini and the Coppa Memorial Franco Rao.

During her site visit and meetings with the team at the Circolo Vela Torbole Fiona and the local team identified a potential problem with the original proposed dates for the 2012 Melges 24 World Championship and so to ensure the smooth running of the event and maximum availability of facilities the

The Executive Committee of the International Melges 24 Class met on the evening of Tuesday 11 August to review in detail the options proposed to it for the 2012 Melges 24 World Championship.

During three days, with teams from Germany, Brittan and Estonia the first Dutch Open was sailed in very light and sunny conditions at Medemblik; the venue of the Europeans in 2013. The event attracted 17 boats with several new teams from Holland.

Congratulations to the brand new 2011 Melges 24 U.S. National Champions —Bora Gulari onNew England Ropesand crew consisting of tactician Jeremy Wilmot, George Peet, Dan Kaseler and Chris Fortine. The victory is well deserved and long overdue, as the Championship was well fought.

Here's Mr Clean's day two update from the 2011 US Nationals -We said yesterday that everything would look different after the throwout came in at the Melges 24 US Nationals, but with Nathan Wilmot on Embar dropping a 6 and Bora Gulari on New England Ropes dropping a 7, the brothers (Gulari has Jerem