Each year member yachts of the Premier Class Association(http://www.premierclass.ca) compete for the Sunnybrook Yachts Offshore Challenge Cup.

The offshore course is point to point and the even year races run from Halifax to the French Island of St.Pierre, over 330 miles. Race details available at http://www.route-hsp.com/

During the odd numbered years, the PCA fleet is scored within the Marblehead to Halifax Race, a 360 miler across the Gulf of Maine and up Nova Scotia's east coast.

In 2007 and in 2006, Ciao! won the "Halifax" and the "St.Pierre" races - she is the first yacht to win back to back on both ocean courses. In 2005, J145 Katana from CYC won the "Halifax"; in 2004, J160 Excalibur from RNSYS won the "St.Pierre" course; in 2003, Dogsled from RNSYS won the "Halifax".

Pictured at above left representing Sunnybrook Yachts is Jim Snair, accepting the Challenge Cup is Philippe Paturel, skipper of Ciao! and the Ciao! crew in the background.

This year the yachts raced from Marblehead to Halifax and finished a on average over 70hrs later on a slow, foggy, upwind 360 mile course.

Next year's Sunnybrook Yachts Offshore Challenge Cup gets underway Sunday, July 14/08 from Halifax finishing in St.Pierre @July 16,2008.

Sunnybrook Yachts

130 Marina Rd, PO Box 316 Chester, NS B0J 1J0, Canada

Toll-free 866-590-9210 Tel 902-275-2424 Fax 902-275-2444 Email Us After Hrs: 902-456-0881

http://sunnybrookyachts.com

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