This year 272 young sailors from 10 countries are competing fiercely to win this prestigious event. Even 20 competitors from the United States of America are there to race!

Friday afternoon the 18th of April a practice race was held to give the competitors a chance to get used to local circumstances. Saturday and Sunday they are split up in 6 groups, which will compete amongst each other.

On Saturday all three scheduled races were sailed in a cold wind from ENE around 18 kts with gusts up to 23 kts which made it quite hard for some competitors to stay aboard. Temperatures of 8 degrees Celsius, clouds and some sunny spells resulted in a typical Dutch spring day. Every race took about 1 hour to finish and between the second and third race the competitors enjoyed a short lunch and warming up break. At the start of the third race there were as many as 22 OCS’s and BFD's.

Sunday has two races scheduled, the first one to start at 10:00hrs. After the races on Sunday the 3 groups for the 2 final races on Monday will be announced. These two final races will give us the winner of the 18th International Easter Optimist Regatta to whom last year’s victor Steven Le Fevre (Netherlands) will then be handing over his crown.

No Sailno Name Scores 1 2 31 SWE 3873 Torn Ton, Male 6,0 4 1 1
2 NED 2497 Pelt Gijs, Male 6,0 2 2 2
3 GBR 5149 Hannah Mills, Female 8,0 2 1 5
4 GER 11229 Follmann Patrick, Male 9,0 1 6 2
5 NED 2524 Schiltkamp Steyn, Male 12,0 5 3 4

Source: Bas van Grieken