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From Christophe Barrue of the French Melges 24 Class - Before the start of this year's SNIM regatta we knew the Mistral should blow. 33 boats came to have fun provided the mistral would cooperate by leaving a window to sail during the four days of racing planned over the Easter Weekend.

There's just a week to go until the start of the 2008 SNIM Regatta, which takes place in Marseille, France, over the Easter weekend.

Four Melges 24s competed in last week's St Maarten Heineken Regatta and put in an outstanding performance to take 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 8th place racing under the local handicap system in Spinnaker Class 5.

YFA, the company that brings us the Czech Melges 24 Tour, has confirmd that two of their fleet of 9 Melges 24s (hull numbers from 692 to 712) are still available for charter for the 2008 Volvo Melges 24 World Championship 2008. The boats were built during 2007 and are well maintained.

There's some great video footage of the racing action at the first Volvo Cup event in Scarlino together with interviews with many of the sailors (in Italian) now available on the SAILING REVOLUTION web site.

MOST URGENT - Please note that the dates for the 2008 North American Championship and the 2009 World Championship, to be hosted by the Eastport Yacht Club, Annapolis, MD, USA, have been changed as follows: 2008 North Americans - 27 Oct to 2 Nov 2008 2009 World Championship - 26 Oct to 5 Nov 2009 The