A perfect day started with bright sunshine and a moderate breeze of 12-14 knots. No less than 33 Greek Olympic medallists gathered in YCG beautiful veranda to be initiated into sail racing. Among them, Sofia Mpekatorou and Aimilia Tsoulfa, Nikos Kaklamanakis, Tasos Mpountouris, Leonidas Pelekanakis, Aimilios Papathanasiou, Takis Kouligkas, Elias Chatzipavlis and Gavrilis Tasos were the “experts” that had to take the rest of the Olympic medallists to crew with them. No doubt they got into sailing easily. After the briefing they went to the marina and were allocated to the 14 Platu 25s boats. Greek sailing World and European champions were filling in the crews. They went out for about an hour to practise. The race started at 13:10 local time, in the waters in front of the terrace of Pireas Sailing Club, which at the time was full of people. The Platus did two windward / leeward races in a spectacular form. The crews undoubtedly had a great time and tracked media attention. The race was very close to the shore. The rest of the IMS fleet had an inshore race of 12 miles in a southern course. The weather conditions were the same over there as well. The prize-giving ceremony was held later Sunday night, where the cup sponsor, Alpha Trust mutual funds, handed in the cheque to the representatives of the Friends' Association for Children with Cancer 'ELPIDA'.
