Somers Kempe (Bermuda) made a clean sweep of all three top prizes in the IOD class today with another sterling performance on a sparkling Bermuda day.
Under bright sun and with a gusty 16 kt north wind, the IOD class had only one race to complete their full thirteen-race series. Kempe won the seven-race IOD ‘A’ Series, the six-race IOD ‘B’ Series and wins the thirteen-race Vrengen Gold Cup overall series, too. Crew for the winners included Craig Davis, Grant Valentine, and Matthew Cairney.
Kempe and Crew also have won the special 400th Anniversary Celebration Trophy for beating the second place overall boat by the biggest margin of any of the fleets. This prize is being awarded to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Bermuda’s settlement.
In the ‘A’ Series Hubert Watlington was second and Kevin Farrar came third. Joining Kempe on the podium for ‘B’ Series prizes were co-skippers Patrick Cooper and William McNiven (Bermuda) in second and Dan Faria (Newport, Rhode Island) in third. For the overall series co-skippers Hubert Watlington and Kevin Horsfield came second, followed by past IOD world champion Kevin Farrar (Connecticut) in third.
In the International Etchells Class eleven-race series, local Bermuda skipper Tim Patton with crewmates Peter Martin and Paul Fisher took the K.F. Trimingham Trophy without sailing the final race. With a drop of seven points for not sailing, Patton still had an unbeatable lead. Californian Ed O’Sullivan and Bermudian Ben Nichols went into the final race tied for second. Today, Nichols got the best of it coming second in the class with a second place in race eleven versus a fourth for O’Sullivan who took third.
The J24 group sailed two final races today to complete their thirteen-race series. Trevor Boyce with crew Carlton Adams, Samantha Mallory,Gary Taylor, Jorge Chiapparro and (r) Anna Kinsten held on to the lead that they took into the day’s action and with a 2-1 score won the J24 Gipper Trophy, for the second year in a row, with nine points to spare. Sixteen year old Lance Fraser and his all-Bermudian, all-16 year old crew held on to second place, two points ahead of Tim Lynch. The top three J24 teams were all from Bermuda.
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