2025 Melges 24 World Championship
Trieste gears up to be the Melges 24 capital this September
Trieste, renowned in the sailing world as Italy’s City of Sails, is preparing to spend a week as the Capital of the Melges 24 as it gets ready to host the Melges 24 World Championship 2025 on September 20-27.
This marks the first time the Melges 24 Worlds will be held on the Adriatic Sea. With sixty-seven teams already entered by the Early Bird deadline, the event is on track to become the most attended World Championship for the class in the past decade—surpassing even the strong fleet of Miami 2016, where Embarr helmed by Stuart McNay and Taki 4 with Niccolò Bertola claimed the overall and Corinthian titles.
These impressive numbers have generated a wave of satisfaction and anticipation among all those contributing to the event’s success. The championship, entrusted to the experienced Yacht Club Adriaco by the International Melges 24 Class Association (IM24CA), is a testament to the enduring appeal of the Reichel/Pugh-designed Melges 24—an icon of performance and style whose thirty-year legacy continues to inspire great sailing stories around the world.
The latest of those stories will be written this September in Friuli Venezia Giulia, on the challenging waters of the northern Adriatic, where sailing is never simple. If the Bora, the strong north-easterly wind, doesn’t show up, crews will be left to contend with lighter, technical conditions that demand patience and skill.
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