Coconut Grove Sailing Club

Some of the best Melges Racing is taking place in Miami. The Audi Melges 20 Class just finished up Series Event 2. Check out melges.com for video, photos and race talk. This class is on fire as is the Melges 32 and Melges 24. This week - Miami Grand Prix with the Melges 32, next week - Bacardi Miami Sailing week with the Melges 20s and 24s.
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February 21, 2010 (Miami, Fla.) - Congratulations to Jeff Ecklund (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) on STAR with Harry Melges and Barr Batzer as crew. They are 2010 Audi Melges 20 Miami Winter Series Event No. 2 Champions. In second overall is Eric Wynsma (East Grand Rapids, Mich.) on Superfly, and in third was Michael Kiss (Holland, Mich.) on Bacio.
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February 20, 2010 (Miami, Fla.) - It was a day of racing that almost wasn’t. Just before three o’clock today, PRO Bruce Golison and his very skilled race committee fired off 2 races to commence the 2010 Audi Melges 20 Miami Winter Series Event No. 2, hosted by Coconut Grove Sailing Club, supported by Shake-A-Leg Miami and Melges Performance Sailboats. Around 2:30 p.m., the breeze just didn’t appear to be filling in, Golison then registered 4.4 knots (meeting the class minimum breeze limit) at the weather boat. Abundant sunshine accompanied the very light, fickle breeze with seventy-degree temperatures.
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Dear Friends, On behalf of the Olympic Sailing Committee, US SAILING, Rolex Watch USA, and all of the athletes and coaches who participated in this years’ event, we would like to thank you for your time, effort, and dedication during the 2010 Rolex Miami OCR. We simply can’t run an event of this size without volunteers like you.
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One of the many American standouts from last week’s US SAILING 2010 Rolex Miami OCR was up-and-comer Kyle Rogachenko, 21, a member of the 2010 US Sailing Development Team. Kyle had the break-out performance of the regatta by winning a bronze medal in the deep and talented, 104-boat Laser fleet, which earned him a spot on the 2010 US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics (USSTAG).
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SAILING SHORTS * The three day 29erXX SEIKO Superbowl regatta was held this week with international teams spanning four continents sailing the skiffs on Biscayne Bay.
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Biscayne Bay is teeming with boats and competitive sailors, who are aiming 'for good showings this week. - for the Olympic Classes Regatta.
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(Miami, FL) - Coconut Grove Sailing Club’s 47th Annual Open Orange Bowl Regatta saw an incredible duel between two young Laser sailor-athletes, each campaigning for an Olympic berth. Canadian Robert Davis of Kingston, ON and American Kyle Rogachenko of Collegeville, PA put on a spectacular display in a 24 boat fleet on Biscayne Bay, December 27-30.
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13 December 2009 (Miami, Fla.) - On close, competitive Biscayne Bay, the 2010 Audi Melges 20 Miami Winter Series Event No. 1 concluded with Jeff Ecklund (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) on STAR, and crew members Bora Gulari and George ‘Bear’ Peet as champions. Trying to fill Ecklund’s superstar-size, top-notch helmsman shoes was substitute-helm, good friend and fellow Lauderdale Yacht Club member Tom Lihan. Ecklund won the event on count back after Saturday’s solid performance. Tied for first in points, occupying second place overall is Eric Wynsma (East Grand Rapids, Mich.) on Superfly and in third was fleet newcomer Robert Wilber (Stone Creek, Conn.) on Cinghaile.
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12 December 2009 (Miami, Fla.) - Jeff Ecklund (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) on STAR, with reigning Moth World Champion Bora Gulari on tactics and Melges 32 World Champion team member George ‘Bear’ Peet, has assumed the lead of the Audi Melges 20 Miami Winter Series Event No. 1. "I was familiar with the Audi Melges 20 style of racing, beyond that I really didn’t know quite what to expect." said Ecklund post racing. "I’m lucky to have Bora and Bear on the boat. They got the boat ready. All I did was sit back and drive. It was a lot of fun. It’s amazing how fast these boats are for their size."
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10 December 2009 (Miami, Fla.) - The 2010 Audi Melges 20 USA Sailing Series officially gets underway this weekend in Miami, Fla. with the first of three Miami Winter regattas. Hosted by Coconut Grove Sailing Club (CGSC), supported by Shake-A-Leg Miami and Melges Performance Sailboats, the International Audi Melges 20 Class Association is thrilled to be welcoming 13 teams to the crystal-clear blue waters of Biscayne Bay.
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BY TANIA VALDEMORO
TVALDEMORO@MIAMIHERALD.COM

If you could sail around the world and share those experiences with others, how would you do it?

Three twentysomethings -- Alan Stewart, 24; Adam Domanski, 26; and Trevor Dreyfus, 26 -- have the answer. It begins with a BlackBerry, a website and a blog, a satellite phone and a HAM radio. (And Twitter.)

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The Bacardi Cup started in 1927 as a three-day event with less than ten boats competing for the Trofeo Bacardi as part of the Cup of Cuba's Mid-Winter Championship. The regatta continued thirty years until political unrest forced the Bacardi Cup to move in 1962 from Havana to the Coral Reef Yacht Club in Miami, FL. Continuing in Miami, the Bacardi Cup has grown into a renowned sailing spectacle dedicated to the Star Class, with sixty-four elite teams from 15 countries participating in 2009.
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The Melges 20 kicks off their Winter Series in Miami next weekend. A three event championship which promises to grow into one of the premiere series in the USA. Keep a close eye on http://www.melges.com as well as the individual class sites for exciting announcements.
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Glenn Terry, Miami Herald Neighbors columnist
...I'm not much of a sailor either, but I know the Coconut Grove Sailing Club has been an outstanding part of our community for more than 60 years. We have several yacht clubs, but this is the only public one. Anyone can take up sailing and enjoy the wind-blown camaraderie there. I also know that Miami is doing what it can to put the Coconut Grove Sailing Club out of business. It has refused to extend its multiyear lease and plans to take away the club's "mooring field" (parking lot for boats offshore). These tactics will kill the club.
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Eye of the World...an Expedition for Youth Education
As we make our final preparations to leave the country, we have found ourselves in the arms of a very generous host. We are staying with the Coconut Grove Sailing Club in south Miami, Florida. They're doing a great job helping us take care of the last few things on our to-do list. We've met many very nice members and they even let us hop in a couple Optis and join their youth sailing program at practice!
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The International Audi Melges 20 Class Association is proud to present the Inaugural Miami Winter Series hosted by Coconut Grove Sailing Club, Shake-A-Leg and supported by Melges Performance Sailboats.
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On August 9, Christopher Branning, Navigator for MORNING LIGHT (2007) and currently in this year's entry on AKELA (2009), will be at CGSC with his stories of his association with Disney Productions and how he was selected to be on a team of 11, selected from over hundreds of candidates for the MORNING LIGHT Transpac racing yacht.

Disney Productions made a docudrama of their racing yacht MORNING LIGHT, from establishing the crew to the regatta finish line. Christopher Branning, holding a starting position as navigator, will be present for questions and photos.
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CGSC had the pleasure of having Sergej Berendsen, his wife and young children join us for our Tuesday Social Night Dollar Dog post dinner forum. He presented a slide show following their 2 year journey cruising from Holland to the Mediterranean, came across the Atlantic in a Rally to the southern Caribbean, up the islands finally landing in Miami and the Coconut Grove Sailing Club. The room was PACKED with members listening in!
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Edmond Aramayo, 10, Samuel Beguiristain, 10, and Arturo Bonnet, 11, catch the wind during Thursday's Coconut Grove Rotary Club/Coconut Grove Sailing Club's Youth Regatta on Biscayne Bay. Sailors age 6-14 competed to help raise money for disadvantaged kids in the Grove. - Miami Herald Neighbor's section, written by Richard Cohen, Sunday, April 12, 2009
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A group from the Coconut Grove Sailing Club (CGSC), Ron & Dottie Rostorfer, Phil & Nelly Kellet, Cathy & Marc Buller, Susanne Walcutt and Emmy Martinez chartered a 53 foot sailboat and rounded Cape Horn, Chile, in March 2009. What a fascinating slide show they gave to the members for a very memorable Social Night on May 26, 2009.
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