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The Melges 24 teams are all gathering in Key West, Florida, this weekend in preparation for the start of ACURA Key West Race Week on Monday.

Here's a great displacement activity for everyone out there who should really be getting on with something vitally important but is reading www.melges24.com instead!

It's going to be another magnificent year in Key West for the Melges 24 Class. For more than a decade it has reigned supreme at Premiere Racing's mid-winter yachting getaway-ACURA Key West 2009, presented by Nautica as the largest fleet in attendance.

Devoti Sailing has appointed Jachtwef Ruyten as the official Melges 24 dealer for the Netherlands with immediate effect.

The USMCA's Joy Dunigan has been hard at work in the editing room and has put together some great video compilations from this year's ACURA Key West presented by Nautica. Go check out the IMCA YOUTUBE SITE for these and for her Key West dockside interviews with Vince Brun and John Kolius.

Congratulations to Flavio Favini and the crew of Franco Rossini's Blu Moon for winning the 2008 Melges 24 World and European Rankings and to Brian Porter and his Full Throttle crew for winning the 2008 North American Ranking.