News

Premiere Racing is pleased to invite Melges 24 sailors to Acura Miami Race Week 2005. The Southern Ocean Racing Conference known to racing sailors around the world as SORC has found a new life with Peter Craig and his Premiere Racing organization.

Laurie Bunn and helmsman Bora Gulari bested a field of 18 top Melges 24 racers in the Lake Geneva Fall Championship. Their final race bullet sealed the deal for their team. In the seven race series Bunn and Gulari won two of the heats! The setting could not have been more perfect this weekend.

Thanks to generous support from Devoti Sailing we're running the first ever International Melges 24 Survey, covering all apsects of Melges 24 sailing.

Karen Gottwald has opened up her legendary annual Ocean Reef Club Invitational Regatta to all comers. This fantastic long weekend regatta, which this year will take place from 10-12 December, offers fun afloat and ashore and a chance to check out the 2005 Worlds venue.

From Andy Burdick at the USMCA - The Florida Yacht Club in Jacksonville, Florida has been forced to cancel the Melges 24 Kings Day Regatta slated for November 20-21, 2004.

The fourth and final day of the Melges 24 French Open National Championship in Larmor Beach saw one final race in which the Rochelais based Jean-Francois Cruette and his crew of Scutum took the honours.