A total of 19 Boats went to the Start Line Five times during the Bermuda Optimist Dinghy Association’s South American Trials.
The sailors going in knew that the top 5 that had to express their desire to go to the South American's by a certain date would qualify to go to the IODA South American's this March in Argentina.
Rory Caslin qualified as the top seed as he finished the regatta with 7 Net Points, Caslin finished second four times and first once, he threw out one of his second place finishes.
Chase Cooper finished first twice, second once and fifth twice to finish 2nd overall with 9 Net Points, also finishing with 9 Points was Mikey Wollmann, Wollmann had two first place finishes, one second place finish and two fourth place finish.
Ceci Wollmann finished fourth with 16 points, Wollmann recorded one third place finish, two fourth place finishes, one fifth place finish and one eighth place finish. Although Benn Smith finished 7th he was the next sailor to express their desire to go to the South American's, Smith had one sixth place finish, to go along with three seventh place finishes and one eighth place finish for 27 Net Points, Campbell Patton and Matilda Nicholls finished 5th and 6th.
Bermuda Optimist Dinghy Association’s South American Trials Results
07 Rory Caslin 09 Chase Cooper 09 Mikey Wollmann 16 Ceci Wollmann 19 Campbell Patton 24 Matilda Nicholls 27 Benn Smith 29 Yannick Hillier 32 Joe Arrowsmith 33 James Amaral 34 Peter Dill 50 Camille Chin-Gurret 50 George Buckley 52 Adriana Penruddocke 54 Thomas Penruddocke 59 Alice Reeves 69 Florence Nicholls 70 Charis Todd 76 Sean Tucker
