The top junior sailors in the country were on display in one of the landmark events on the sports‘ calendar the kpmg winter youth regatta.
Over the course of two days at montague, the sailors faced gusting winds one day and low winds the other,but in the end norman cartwright and drake knowles emerged as two of the top performers.
Cartwright, sailing out of the nassau yacht club, won the ilca 6 division
He finished first in all six races for a net total of 5 points.
Knowles, sailing out of the mack knowles junior sailing club in long island, accomplished the same feat to win the optimist championship.
He took first in all six races in the series en route to t
After watching his older brother dominate the ilca 6, nash cartwright took first place in the ilca 4 class.
The bahamas national sailing school product tied in points with lyford cay sailing’s armann manwatkar, but was named the overall winner on a tie-breaker.
In the optimist green fleet, james hunnicutt out of the bahamas national sailing school took first place while his teammate kai harvey took first place in the sunfish class.