The South African Sailing Eastern Cape Championships are being sailed out of Mossel Bay Yacht Club in Mossel Bay.

The championships started on Saturday the 27th of September and finish on Monday the 29th of September.

A record fleet of 120 entrants plus 14 novices are enjoying great sailing in Mossel Bay.

Three races were sailed yesterday in a variety of conditions.

The first race was in a West South West of 12 to 15 knots.

Then the rain made an appearance for the second race which was sailed in 20 knots.

A wind shift to the South meant that Race Officer Ronnie Baer had to shift the course for the third race of the day which was sailed in 16 knots of breeze.

Today looks like a hurry up and wait day with wind predictions of around 6 knots.

There are 85 boats sailing in the Open Fleet with 20 boats contesting in the Mirror Class and 12 each in the Laser and Laser 4.7 Class. The rest of the Open Fleet consists of Dachicks,420's, Sonnets, Laser Radial, GP14's, Fireballs and single entries in the 29'er, Dolphin and Finn Classes.

The largest fleet is the Optimist Class at 35 entries.

PROVISIONAL RESULTS AS AT 27 September 2008:

1. Optimist Class
2. Open Class