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Day two of the Acura SORC 2001 brought near perfect conditions for races 3 and 4 in the Melges 24 Class. Racing got underway at lunchtime in 6-10 knots on flat water. The first start was heavily port biased resulting in a major log-jam at the port end and a general recall.

As darkness fell over Miami last night the 27 strong Melges 24 fleet finally made it back to the dock after the first two races in the 60th Acura SORC. The day started with a 3 hour postponement waiting for breeze which eventually began to fill in mid afternoon.

26 top Melges 24 teams including Harry Melges, Brian Porter and Morgan Reeser will be doing battle for the honours at the ACURA SORC Regatta 2001 commencing 1 March.

Following a two day visit to Ft Lauderdale in January Im delighted to report that the Lauderdale Yacht Club is working flat out to ensure that the Melges 24 Worlds 2001 (November 8-17) will be the biggest and best Melges 24 event in the US to date.

In line with the 2001 changes to Class Rules C.1.2 and G.1.4 the IMCA is introducing a new register of official measurers. All registered measurers will be issued with an individually numbered class stamp.

In our final report from Key West we incorrectly stated that Paul Zubrycki was the first woman helm. In fact Paula's boat was helmed by Doug Clark and the first woman helm was in fact Karen Gottwald. Our apologies for this error and for any confusion it may have caused.