San Francisco Yacht Club to host world sailing championship

San Francisco Yacht Club sailor and Corte Madera resident Duane Yoslov, pictured alongside crewmates on Looper in Miami in January 2024, will be skippering one of 31 crews partaking at the Melges 24 World Championships to be sailed Aug. 20-24. (Zerogradinord via SFYC)

A world-championship sailing competition is coming to Bay Area waters Aug. 20-24, organized by Belvedere’s San Francisco Yacht Club.

The Melges 24 World Championship will feature 12 races across five days in what’s known as the Berkeley Circle, waters east of Angel Island and west of Richmond and Berkeley, regatta chair and club member Matthew Sessions said.

The competition, which the club also organized in 2013, features 31 crews from five countries, with Sessions estimating 155 or so total competitors. Most are from the U.S., with two of the crews having host-club members, but teams from Canada, Croatia, Germany and Italy are also taking part.

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