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Fleet left trailing in Chequemate’s wake

The old and the new: Oracle Team USA practice on the Great Sound as the keelboat regatta takes place in the background (Photograph by Oralce Team USA)

Chequemate remained on course for a clean sweep of honours on the penultimate day of the 2015 Bacardi Keelboat Regatta in the Great Sound yesterday.

After eight races Chequemate leads the overall, Bermuda and International fleets in the J-105 XL Catlin Series.

Chequemate has simply dominated, winning all but two of the eight races sailed so far and finishing now lower than third.

Topping the leaderboard in the International One Design fleet after seven races and one throw out is Blythe Walker with six points.

In second with 13 points is Patrick Cooper followed by Philip Crain in third a further six points adrift.

Somers Kempe, the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club Commodore, leads the Viper 640 fleet after four races with six points.

Breathing down Kempe’s neck in second is Rockal Evans with ten points.

“This is my first time skippering a Viper in Bermuda Race Week,” Evans said. “I have had some pretty good results for my first time and I am very pleased. It was very tricky conditions but we managed well.

“Tomorrow [today] is the last day and we are still in contention and also having fun.”

Presently third in the Viper 640 fleet is overseas skipper Justin Scott with eleven points.

•Cecilia Wollmann is Bermuda’s sole representative at the ongoing 2015 Laser Radial Women World Championship in Oman.

After two races the promising sailor is placed 81st in the 100 boat fleet.

Denmark’s Anne-Marie Rindom, the Netherland’s Marit Bouwmeester and Isreal’s Oren Jacob presently occupy the top three spots on the leaderboard with nine points apiece.

Wollmann has continued to come on in leaps and bounds this year having impressed at the ISAF Sailing World Cup in Miami, Florida and Pan American Games in Toronto.

The Saltus Grammar School pupil also put in a solid showing at the Sail Canada Youth National Championships in Kingston, Ontario where she and sibling Mikey Wollmann both qualified for next month’s ISAF Youth World Championships in Malaysia.