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Doug Fisher of Sarasota was crowned the Melges 24 Midwinter Champion and the Hall Spars & Rigging Boat of the Day when he won the 31 boat Melges 24 class by a gargantuan points margin of 26.5 points at the St. Petersburg NOOD.

The St Petersburg NOOD will host the next event in the 2002 North American Ranking Series from February 15-17. St.

Now everyone has had time to recover from all the excitement there are few special thank-yous that we need to make following the 2001 World Championship.

With a score line that included five bullets Italian Flavio Favini won the 2001 Melges 24 World Championship in true style after the final day of racing eventually had to be cancelled due to lack of wind.

Last night's protest by Brian Porter against Flavio Favini (helming for Franco Rossini) was lodged after the end of protest time and was dismissed by the jury. The results from race 8 stand and Favini leads the regatta by 7 points from Harry Melges (helming for Jeff Eckland).

The penultimate day of the 2001 Melges 24 World Championship brought an interesting mix of weather and sea conditions and some very exciting racing. Although the race committee had hope to complete 3 more races the dying, shifting breeze resulted in a wise decision to stop at two.