Hamilton BERMUDA, April 27, 1012 – Six-time IOD World Champion Penny Simmons won the last two races in Bacardi’s Bermuda International Race Week, but it wasn’t quite enough to pop him into the lead in either the IOD ‘B’ series or the overall 13-race test for the IOD Vrengen Gold Cup. Giles Peckham of Cowes UK scored an 8-2 today and won the six race ‘B’ series while Simmons came second.

Hamilton BERMUDA, April 26, 1012 – All week Will Thompson and Tim Patton battled tooth and nail for Etchells bragging rights and the Trimingham Trophy awarded to the winner of the class in Bacardi’s Bermuda International Invitational Race Week. Today Thompson snatched the prize with a third and a first on the day.

It looked bad for Thompson at the start of the day’s first race. He was sliding down the line near the pin and a wind shift made it impossible for him to lay the mark to start. He had to make a 270º gybe to escape the crowd of boats coming down above him. Then he had to take their sterns on port tack. Will was able to claw his way back to third place in the light and shifty westerly wind that the Great Sound handed out early in the day.

Hamilton BERMUDA, April 25, 1012 – Two-time IOD World Champion John Burnham took the helm again today and drove the Burnham/Rugg IOD team to a comfortable third-place finish in what was the last race of the seven-race IOD ‘A’ Series to take home the series silver. There are six races in the IOD ‘B’ series and then all 13 races are used to decide the overall winner of the Vrengen Gold Cup.

Bermuda’s Penny Simmons won the seventh race and jumped to second in the ‘A’ Series. He was followed Giles Peckham of Cowes UK who was just one point behind. Peckham had suffered with a seventh place in the seventh race after getting caught in the pin end crowd at the start.