Peter Bromby will be hoping it's a case of 'Miami twice' when he takes to the water in the US later today.

Bermuda's Olympic sailor enters the Rolex Miami Olympic Classes regatta in top form after blitzing the fleet at last weekend's Biscayne Bay Star Trophy event with crew Martin Siese.

Of the five races sailed at the Coral Reef Yacht Club, Bromby and Siese won the first three on the opening day and followed up with a seventh and a second on the final outing.

After dropping the seventh-place finish, the pair topped the leaderboard by a whopping 16 points from second placed Gonzelo Aravjo and Marcos Iglesias.

Bromby said he and Siese had "dominated the regatta like I don't think we have ever dominated a regatta before".

The Star class sailor, who finished fourth with Lee White at the Sydney Olympics, said his success was due in no small part to assistance received from Bermuda Container Lines.

Speaking from the US, Bromby said: "Bermuda Container Lines shipped our boat in and out (of Bermuda). It made a big difference because it was the first time we had been able to have the boat home in Bermuda for about six years.

"Normally we would practice at regattas but to have the boat home meant we could concentrate our training here and run the practice sessions the way we wanted to run them. That was quite advantageous to us."

Without BCL, and additional help from the Department of Youth, Sport and Recreation who assisted with regard to duty, Bromby said the cost of bringing the boat in and out of the country would have been prohibitive.

"That has already paid dividends following our success in this first regatta," he said.

Miami marks the beginning of the season for Bromby and Siese and he said he would be going all out for two wins from two.

"I don't know if we can expect it but we can hope for it," he said.

For the past two days the pair have been practising with the other teams at the regatta and have also been working on furthering their own relationship.

"Martin and I are relatively new together," he said. "We had our first regatta together in the Bacardi Cup last year and we won that event which was quite remarkable. Despite our teamwork, which was pretty bad, we scored some breaks and we won it. Since then we have been coming together slowly and having the boat home in Bermuda was a major plus for us."

As well as the aforementioned financial assistance, Bromby has also managed to secure sponsorship from ACE insurance.

"It's the first time we have had a sponsor since 1996 and it will make a huge difference in terms of what we can do," he said. "For the last five years we have been doing what we could afford to do. We went to Sydney and came fourth on a pretty limited budget and going into Greece now I think that, thanks to ACE, we are in a very good position."

Bromby said if he and Siese continued to progress as a partnership he believed the faith shown in them would be repaid.

"I would like to think that we are going to medal in the Olympic Games," he said. "It's in 2004 and there's a lot of sailing and a lot work to be done but for the first time we are not going to be financially strapped and we can get on with the job at hand.

"It's a long battle but I think we should do very well. There are some very exciting times ahead and we have a lot of our competition in a tailspin right now."

Bermuda is well represented in Miami with Paula Lewin joined by sister Peta and Lisa Neasham in the Yngling class. The trio have just taken delivery of their new boat and were working hard to get it ready for practice yesterday. Bermuda's Brett Wright is also listed on the provisional entries for the Laser class.