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Top Melges 24 crew and author of the offshorerules.com blog Justin Chisholm brings us a great preview of the Melges 24 European Championship, being held in association with Rolex Baltic Race Week:- Less than a week to go now to the start of the 2007 Melges 24 Europeans hosted in Neustadt, Germany.

DETROIT, August 9, 2007 Less than seven weeks remain until the 2007 Melges 24 U.S. National Championship hosted by Detroits Bayview Yacht Club on September 21 23, and Midwestern Melges racers are honing their skills in anticipation of a great showing for this Grand Prix event.

With just eleven days to go to the start of the Melges 24 European Championship, being held in association with Rolex Baltic Race Week, a record 79 entries are now confirmed on the rosta.

77 Melges 24 entered for the 5th leg of the Volvo Cup, at Torbole on lake Garda, including a number of America's Cup and Olympic sailors from across Europe.

Fast and spectacular but also constant in its value - that is the simple formula for the enormous success of the Melges 24. World Champions, Olympic medal winners or America's Cup sailors, they are all fascinated by the high-tech yacht that was launched 14 years ago.

To accompany Justin Chisholm's daily reports you can also find the Torbole Melges 24 Week results at the event web site:- CLICK FOR FULL RESULTS -