North Sydney, NS -  After 2 days of training out of the Northern Yacht Club in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, the sailors in Optimist Dinghies, 420s, Laser Radial and Laser spent today racing!

Day 1 of 2 days racing delivered prime breeze with little-to-no wave activity thanks to the minor change of tide direction and a an non-prevailing direction. 78 boats are on the water here, with Sailors and Coaches in attendance from host province Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador.

CYA Event Coach Robin Blanchard is delivering oversight coaching to all participants - on land and on-water, and optimizing the expertise of provincial and class specialty coaches visiting Cape Breton.Officials here are delivering race management, on-water judging and protest room jury. Chief Judge is Warren Nethercote and Principal Race Officer is Rob Williams. They are working with prime groups of judges and race officers who are developing in Canada's Atlantic region.

Event co-chairs Dean Baldwin and Dennis Astephen and the host organizing commitee is to be commended for putting on a great event, all the while encompassing CYA's on-line registration service - brought into place just this year to start the CYA's tracking of Canadian sailing athletes.

From the CYA website, view original post here.

View race results online here.

More information on Sail East here.