 Rockal Evans IslandStats.com
Today, Simmons got two more first place finishes; so after the drop of a fourth place earned when he t-boned a mark yesterday and had to take penalty turns, Penny comes out with 4 points for five races in the “B” Series. Second place went to Giles Peckham who finished with 8 points.
Simmons and Peckham were also one-two for the Vrengen Gold Cup Trophy. There were two drops in this competition. Simmons had 10 points and Peckham finished with 18 points. Simmons collected eight first-place finishes out of the eleven races.
Simmons is certainly one of Bermuda’s top sailors. He has competed in four Olympic Games, won the International One Design World (IOD) Championships six times and he won the bronze medal in the Snipe class at the 1967 Pan Am Games.
The Etchells Class went down to the wire. Tim Patton led Martin Vezina by a single point going into the final two races. Vezina got two second places and Patton took two thirds.
But there was a protest and counter protest between the two in a leeward mark rounding collision. Vezina went into the rounding with an inside overlap; but according to Patton’s protest, Vezina made a tactical rounding, not a seamanlike one. When Patton started rounding up onto the wind, the two collided.
Patton got a DSQ from Race 9 following the protest. He fishes second with 15 points and Vezina takes first with 14. Malcolm Graham Taylor has 15 points for third. The DSQ did not change the overall results.
Scott Snyder from Colorado was the only international winner in all five classes. He and his crew from Colorado and New York took first place in the J24 Class.
Snyder got off to an amazing start with five firsts in the first five races. Then on Thursday he got a 2,4,3 score. He and his crew computed the possibilities of anyone beating them if they dropped two DNS 12 point scores, and they didn’t have to race on Friday to win first place. Snyder’s team had 14 points.
Trevor Boyce also had two 12-point scores from earlier races in which he retired after finishing. With his dropped scores he moved back into second place with 18 points. Peter Rich finished third one point back with 19 points.
Earlier in the week final results were posted in the Laser and J105 Classes. Bermuda Olympic hopeful Rockal Evans knocked off traditional Bermuda winners Brett Wright and Malcolm Smith and Not Mine skipper Allan Williams shared the glory of his fourth consecutive J105 Class first place finish with co-skipper Glenn Astwood. The duo won on a tiebreaker that put Chuck Millican’s Elusive into second.
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