Melges 24 North Americans - Adam Burns leads after day one

6:35 AM Fri 24 Sep 2010 GMT

'Melges 24 North Americans, Day one.' Fiona Brown &copy

Melges 24 North American Championship 2010 being hosted by the Rochester Yacht Club on Lake Ontario got off to a flying start with an opening day featuring clear blue skies, hot sunshine and a warm easterly wind that gradually built from six knots to around 17 knots through the day. When the boats first got to the race area the wind was sub-six knots but after an 85 minute postponement race one was underway on a one mile windward leeward course with six knots from 170 degrees. The wind remained stable in direction but throughout the day it steadily increased ...

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