For twelve years it is mounted in our city, including it in the global map of international sailing competitions. The race is held under the aegis of the Hellenic Sailing Federation (www.eio.gr) and it is included in the international calendar of the World Sailing Federation ISAF (www.sailing.org) , the World Federation of Class Optimist IODA (www.optiworld.org) and the European region of the International Laser Class Association (EurILCA).

It should be indicated that athletes participated in previous years, coming from Cyprus, Bulgaria, Germany, Israel, Egypt, Kuwait, Malta, Romania, Serbia, Switzerland, Turkey and Greece. For this year event, interest in participating has been also shown by Ireland, Maroco, Russia  and Great Britain. Our ambition is to organize it again this year with more participations.