The Comer Homes Melges 24 UK Open Championship will take place from 28-30 September (registration 27 September) at Weymouth in Dorset, the venue for the sailing regatta of the 2012 Olympic and Paralymipc Games.
From Nils Hauff in Norway - The Norwegian Championship was sailed this week-end in Tnsberg south of Oslo. This time the championship was limited to only Norwegian boats because we sailed for The Kings Cup.
IMCA Secretary and Europeans organising committee chairman Gnter Tzeschlock has been hard at work updating the dedicated Melges 24 2007 Europeans Web Site which now carries all sorts of interesting and useful info and links.
Organizers of the Audi 2007 Melges 24 U.S. National Championship have announced that Audi of America Inc. and the Detroit-Area Audi Metro Dealers have been named Title Sponsor of this prestigious event.
For a great "from the race course" view of last week's Melges 24 European Championship, run in association with Rolex Baltic Week in Neustadt, Germany, check out the reports from Barbarian's crew Justin Chisholm on his web site WWW.OFFSHORERULES.COM
At last the wind has appeared and at 1400 the race committee announced that the competitors should go afloat with a view to starting the final race of the championship at 1515.
