Melges 20 Tuning 6 Jan 2013 | 08:51 pm

How to loose a regatta 24 Apr 2012 | 01:19 am

Just finished Charleston Race Week yesterday with a bit of a bitter after taste. This marked my fourth CRW and this one turned out to be a nail biter. Willie, focused on perfect kite trim Our Melges...

Bacio wins 2nd National Title 14 Nov 2011 | 12:26 pm

We just concluded the 2011 Audi Melges 20 US Nationals in Miami. We had three absolute great days of races with over 30 boats on the line. All races were held in planning conditions and all sailors en...

How to Rally Back 31 Oct 2011 | 04:21 am

"Chris, how are we going to win the Nationals?" This is the kind of email I usually get about a week or two before another Audi Melges 20 event from our skipper Michael Kiss. Our team has had a pret...

Starting, Italian Style! 28 Mar 2011 | 06:30 am

Kiss the Madonna and Baby Jesus for good luck! So we finally managed getting off the line in the last race. And guess what, we were second at the windward mark. OMG, we DO still know how to sail! Jam...

Not getting off the line...... 27 Mar 2011 | 04:01 am

Team Bacio is currently in Naples, Italy sailing the first event of the 2011 Audi Melges 20 Sailing Series. I'm once again on board together with Michael Kiss and Jamie Kimbell. After a long winter se...

Improving our Game... 16 Mar 2011 | 06:06 am

Bacio wins Audi Melges 20 Winter Series!!! Happy Faces on Bacio: Chris, Mitchell and Michael Well we just finished the Audi Melges 20 Winter Series in Miami. With a 2nd place at the Bacardi Miami Ra...

In the mean time... 10 Mar 2011 | 12:57 am

A lot has happened since my last entry: Finished the Moth Worlds in Belmont, Australia Flew straight from Sydney to Key West for Key West Race Week on the Melges 32 Heartbreaker with Bob Hughes ...

DNF, DNF, DNF, DNF, DNF, DNF, DNF 12 Jan 2011 | 11:07 am

Bombing down wind... In total the US Airforce Team reported seven DNFs yesterday, which gives you a flavor of how the conditions were. Again it was overcast and not necessarily super windy when we la...

Crunch Time... 10 Jan 2011 | 08:46 pm

Today was the last day of qualification, before the fleet gets split up into Gold and Silver fleet. Conditions were again mostly breeze on but with a bit more overcast, which kept the windspeeds down ...