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The 2006 Melges 24 North American Championship will be hosted by the Santa Cruz Yacht Club on Monterey Bay, California. Registration for the event will open on Tuesday 16 May with ten championship races scheduled between Thursday 18 and Sunday 21 May.

Top British Melges 24 crew and freelance journalist Justin Chisholm writes regularly for the well known UK sailing publication Yachts & Yachting.

A big thank you to those nice people at Sailing Anarchy who have voted the Melges 24 Best Sports Boat in their highly entertaining 5th Annual SAs.

The final results tally in the Melges 24 fleet at this years Acura Miami Race Week bore witness to the truly international nature of the class. The top six places were made up of entries from Italy, United Kingdom, USA and Germany.

The online entry facility for the 2006 North American Championship in Santa Cruz is now live at www.melges24na2006.com so please check it out now and get your entry in asap to help the organisers with administration and planning.

Riccardo Simoneschi from Italy is 2006 Melges 24 ACURA Miami Race Week Champion again! Simoneschi won last year making him a back-to-back winner. This year the Melges 24 fleet was the second largest in attendance at twenty-five.