The word from Justin Chisholm at the end of Saturday's racing at the SNIM in Marseille is - "RANDOM. Three races sailed in winds up to 20 knots and as low as 5 knots. In the first race the trick was to hit the left hand shore as hard a possible upwind.
SNIM, the first event in the 2006 European Ranking Series, got underway yesterday with some challenging racing for the sixty strong Melges 24 fleet which has come together in Marseille from 12 countries across Europe and Scandinavia.
The Burke brothers and their crew aboard Grins sailed an impressive regatta against some incredibly close competition to take the 2006 Sayra Championship at Charleston Race Week in South Carolina this weekend.
With the 2006 season now getting underway please don't forget that if you want to race in the Corinthian (all amateur crew) division at Melges 24 events this year you need to ensure your crew members have all obtained or renewed their ISAF Sailor Classifications.
On 8 and 9 April the German Class Association sailed it's first ranking event which was hosted by "Segler Vereinigung Kreuzlingen" and organised by "North Sails Switzerland".
The eighteen competitors at this year's Charleston Race Week presented by Seabrook Island, currently underway in South Carolina, are battling strong winds and steep chop in this classic spring regatta.
From 1997 to 2001 two time Estonian Olympic medalists Tonu and Toomas Toniste owned their first Melges 24s which they raced regularly on the international Melges 24 circuit.
It is with great sadness that we report the death of Mr Shojiro Yamazaki, who died of cancer of the liver on March 19th. Back in 1995 Mr Yamazaki visited Zenda to buy the first Melges 24 to be shipped to Japan.
The 2006 edition of M24 MAGAZINE, the yearbook of the International Melges 24 Class Association, is now available as a PDF DOWNLOAD. Please contact your NATIONAL CLASS ASSOCIATION to receive a printed copy of the magazine .
We have a number of top crews seeking charter boats for the forthcoming Worlds in Hyeres at the end of August. If you can make your boat available for charter for the Worlds please urgently go to the Charter Listings section of the site and place an advertisement with the details.
