Royal Bermuda Yacht Club’s Hardy Autumn Series saw four foreign guest racers compete against locals on the Great Sound over the weekend.Racing in the Optimist Gold Fleet, the visiting youngsters from Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and Netherlands Antilles were looking to acclimatise ahead of this week’s RenaissanceRe Junior Gold Cup.Sweden’s Oliver Osterberg and Germany’s Marvin Frisch wasted no time in displaying their skills against Bermuda Optimist Dinghy Association sailors, dominating throughout the day.A tie-breaker was required to determine Osterberg as the overall winner of the five-race event ahead of Frisch, while locals Rory Caslin and Ceci Wollmann were third and fourth.Competing purely for practice, the foreign sailors were not eligible for the Hardy Series points.The official leaders in the Gold Fleet for the day were Caslin, Wollmann and Antonio Bailey. After 14 races, Caslin finds himself tied for the lead with Chase Cooper, both with 23 points.Caslin is the new leader of the series based on countback procedures. In a distant third is Wolmann with 40 points.In the Silver Fleet, Matilda Nicholls continued her winning ways, scoring five bullets in the five races sailed, creating an almost insurmountable lead in the series.George Buckley and Yannick Hiller rounded out the podium for the day with nine and ten points respectively.Nicholls leads the series with 12 points, leaving a close battle for second between George Buckley (42 points), Kieran Swann (46 points) and Yannick Hillier (46 points).The next race day and end of Hardy Autumn Series One is October 23.Tomorrow sees the start of the RenaissanceRe Junior Gold Cup with 17 sailors from 16 countries and six regions (Asia, North America, Caribbean, Europe, Scandinavia and Oceania) involved.n Bermuda’s Blake Burgess, a freshman at Maine Maritime Academy, has been chosen to skipper one of the two boats in this weekend’s Storm Trysail Regatta in Larchmont, New York.The regatta is the biggest on the east coast for college big-boat sailing.Burgess is skippering a J-Class 44, a 44’ sloop that is sailed with a crew of up to ten.Switching between 420s and big boats, Burgess has been racing every weekend all over the east coast since September.He kicked off the dingy sailing season skippering in B-Fleet, winning his first college race and placing third in his division at the first regatta.Burgess is now skippering A-Fleet for Maine Maritime in dinghies.Following the Storm Trysail Regatta, Burgess will also be skippering a NAVY 44’ at the 81st MacMillan Cup in Annapolis, Maryland on October 21.