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We all know how competitive the top Melges 24 teams are about brand identity. Each regatta the arms race escalates in the battle for image supremacy. Who has the best van graphics, is wearing the most stylish crew clothing or has the flashiest sticker job on their hull?

Frank Lieve and Hein Ruyten of Melges Netherlands update us on progressin the Netherlands - The exhibited Melges 24 at the Amsterdam HISWA boat-show was successful. Several top-sailors from the Netherlands and Belgium are now on our mail-list.

Federico Michetti's first glimpse of a Melges 24 was in a sailing magazine in the late nineties. By his own admission he was not quite sure what to make of it.

The Norwegian Class invites you to join them for the combined ski and sailing competition in Oslo, Norway, on the 17th and 18th of April 2009.

The Melges 24 International season is now well underway and as most owners have finalised their teams and campaigns for the year ahead, we thought it would be a good time to have a look at who the potential star names might be in 2009.

Like New York the city that never sleeps' the International Melges 24 has a regatta circuit that never really stops.