Harry Melges is the new Australian Open National Melges 24 Champion, the lake sailor from central USA right at home on Geelong’s Corio Bay with his crew of the Melges 24 Star.

“For us the venue is awesome, we love shifty conditions and lake-style sailing on flat water,” said Melges. “We are pretty used to it, and comfortable. Every day we learnt more about how the wind acts and every day was very different which made it so interesting.”

The forthcoming 2014 Melges 24 racing season will be the best ever! Great class developments as well as the very first Australian World Championship will make it one to remember. 

Melges would like to remind all Melges 24 Owners worldwide that we are your go-to source for everything Melges 24!

First points in the Gill Melges 24 Australian Open Nationals, one of the Festival of Sails’ opening events, went to Harry Melges and his Star crew from the USA. Melges, who founded the class in 1993 with his brother Hans and crewman Andy Burdick, began their A

ustralian foray impressively with a perfect scorecard.
International teams had no trouble reading the local breeze on day one of the class’ national title on Geelong’s Corio Bay. The Americans were first with two bullets, the Swiss second and Japanese team aboard Threebond, skippered by Tetsuya Matsunaga, third.

The Royal Geelong Yacht Club is humming with the final preparations before the start of racing tomorrow for two divisions and the mass influx of sailors arriving Friday 24th January with the Melbourne to Geelong passage race.

Regatta village construction is in the final stages, stock is being delivered and the fridges filled, Melges 24 crews weighed, signs and flags are being hung and hoisted and the race buoys that will be the starting, finishing and turning marks for the massive on-water program that is about to roll out, inflated.