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.
In a tense and tricky final race on Lake St Claire, Detroit, California's Argyle Campbell and his crew of Don Jesberg, Robert Kinney and Aaron Serenis aboard "Rock Roll" became the Melges 24 North American Champions 2004.
The second of three days racing at the Melges 24 North American Championship in Detroit brought mixed conditions, mixed fortunes and plenty of exciting racing.
Press Release - The second Melges 24 North American Championship got underway today with four great windward leeward races run by the North Star Sail Club on Lake St Claire, Detroit, MI. The thirty-boat fleet comprises crews from across the USA and Canada as well as three teams from Europe.
Press Release - Englishman Quentin Strauss's Team Gill, helmed by Stuart Rix, routed the home French teams with a double first on day one of the French Melges 24 Open National Championships which got underway at Larmor Beach, Lorient today.
