Team USA

Many of the world's top sailors aged 15 and under gathered to race for gold this summer at the 2010 Optimist North American Championships. Over 200 sailors from North and South America, Europe and Asia competed on Lake Ontario, sailing out of Kingston's Portsmouth Olympic Harbour. The event included the individual Championship and Team Racing Championship, with racing over 6 days from June 27th to July 3rd.

Team Racing Regatta Day

The North American Team Racing Championship commenced today, and will continue on Thursday. Another chilly, windy day greeted the teams preparing to team race today. After both the South American teams and the North American teams took to the water and began racing they all then returned to the docks to reorganize the support boats to orchestrate a safe and fair event. Once this was sorted out, the South American teams went back out and raced the remainder of the day and almost into the night, finally completing the Nations Cup around 7pm. Congratulations to Ecuador on becoming the Nations Cup Champs. The North American teams stayed ashore and will head back out again on the "rest day" to complete the event (photo by David Hein).