This year's winners of the U.S. Match Race Championship (Sept. 24-28, Oyster Bay, NY) and the U.S. Women's Match Race Championship (Sept. 9-14, Rochester, NY) will represent the United States in the ISAF Nations Cup North American Regional Championship to be hosted by Carolina Yacht Club in Charleston, SC, in the fall. The ISAF Nations Cup is a global competition to uncover the world's top match racing nations in both open and women's events and to develop a worldwide match racing infrastructure. The top teams from the eight Regional Championships around the world will qualify for the ISAF Nations Cup Grand Final in Porto Alegre, Brazil, March 23-28, 2009.