International Melges 32 Fleet prepares for East Coast Championship



2:51 PM Wed 12 May 2010 GMT
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The spring Melges 32 racing season officially shifts into gear this weekend at the American Yacht Club (AYC) in Rye, N.Y. for the fifth of nine USA Sailing Series events - the East Coast Championship (ECC). Thirteen high-quality teams have assembled to race, almost doubling the attendance from 2009. Red hot and favored to do well, 2009 Melges 32 World Champion Pieter Taselaar on Bliksem with tactician Jeremy Wilmot will be in attendance. Taselaar fled back to the US sailing scene last March, at the Miami Grand Prix, looking competitively sharp as ever. He's fresh off of the 2010 Audi ...


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