Melbourne Olympic and Invited Classes Regatta

As the only annual ISAF Grade 1 event in the Southern Hemisphere, the Sail Melbourne Olympic and Invited Classes Regatta is a crucial event for any Olympic Class sailor and is the key regatta in the Asia Pacific region.

Sail Melbourne is well known around the world for:

- the exciting sailing on Port Phillip with regular sea breezes

- the professionalism of our Race Management Teams

- the competitive fleets of local and international sailors across the Olympic Classes

- the excellent host club facilities

- the friendliness and atmosphere with which the event is conducted

Sail Melbourne is the pinnacle event in a series of Olympic Class Regattas held in Australia and New Zealand running from December 2006 – February 2007, so provides the perfect opportunity for a summer of training and racing during the Northern Hemisphere’s winter and may national teams have already advised us that they will be in Australia this summer.

As well as delivering excellent sailing and racing on the water, Sail Melbourne provides plenty of entertainment back on shore with a range of sailor functions; fun cash prize events, training seminars and tourism ideas. Combined with our discount homestay accommodation program and the generous hospitality of Sandringham Yacht Club and the Australian locals and you will feel at home right from the start.

Sail Melbourne can also provide assistance for teams wishing to ship their containers of boats to Australia through regatta sponsors Schenker Stinnes who have significantly dropped their transport rates for Sail Melbourne competitors. Combined with our logistical assistance handling containers, moving boats around the country and contacts for charter boats and it could not be easier or more beneficial for your sailors to compete in Sail Melbourne 2007.

Attached to this message is the Sail Melbourne 2007 flyer with information and further details about the event. Please circulate this amongst your sailing team and appropriate supporters, put it on your website and encourage people to attend.

Further information may also be obtained from the Sail Melbourne website www.sailmelbourne.com.au with the NOR, discount accommodation details, subsidized freight contacts, charter boat details and other info to be posted to the site in mid June.

As ‘The Asia Pacific Regatta’ and a crucial for serious sailors of all abilities, Sail Melbourne 2007 is an crucial event for all national teams.