Over 100 Melges X Boats and 200+ happy sailors came out to the X Boat Inland Championship!

With an unbelievable TIE after seven races, the stage was set for a spectacular showdown between D-30, I-25 and I-11 in the senior fleet. In the who-beats-who final race, Nathan Hetzler, Chapman Petersen, and Kyle Navin finished first, second, and third. Congratulations to Delavan Lake's Nathan & Graham Hetzler, your newest X Boat Champions!

Meta & Friz Simon earned the title in the junior fleet of 67 X Boats! The final Junior race was another who-beat-who. The Simons in V-213 went head to head with Owen Harrod and Hank Seum in W-20. In the end, the Simons stepped out to an early lead over W-20, taking fifth in the race and first in the championship. The sibling duo from Pewaukee Yacht Club sailed an incredibly consistent event averaging less than four points. Keep your eye on these sailors. Did you see their interview skills on the US Sailing Instagram Story? Class act.

Every X Boat has a place in this lifelong Inland community. In the words of Dr. Tom Hodgson: "Treasure this moment kids. It is a very special moment in your life. You are making friends here that will be your friends for life."

The Melges X Boat is the path to the Inland — A community of fast, FUN, family sailing. After we age out of X Boats, we move into the Melges MC, C, E, A, 17, and 14.

Thank you to all of you who tuned in to the Melges Takeover of the US Sailing Instagram Story to watch the X Boat action all weekend long. Thank you to all of the helpers and contributors: Commentator Will Huerth, Photographer Mac Six, Commentator Jacob Zils, Jack Behrend, RJ Porter, Geneva Lake Sailing School, Pine Lake Yacht Club Sailing School, Dr. Tom Hodgson, US Sailing, and the whole X Boat fleet. Together, we worked to grow the X Boat community and earned a quarter million impressions! Are you running a large-scale event for Melges boats and want to promote it? Reach out.