The battle for Melges 32 World Championship supremacy has come down to the wire with Royal Bermuda Yacht Club (RBYC) skipper Alec Cutler still in the thick of contention.Cutler is currently second in the 33-boat fleet heading into today’s final race of the ten-race series being contested in Newport, Rhode Island, USA.Yesterday he posted two 4ths and an 11th to keep his championship hopes alive. He currently trails leader John Kilroy (Samba Pa Ti) by five points and has an eight point cushion over third placed skipper Stephen Howe (Warpath).Despite sailing in challenging conditions, Cutler and crew aboard Hedgehog managed clean starts and maintained good boat speed around the course.“We had our best starts of the regatta and worked extremely hard on keeping good boat speed in the constantly changing conditions,” Cutler told The Royal Gazette. “The conditions were just plain weird with massive shifts, velocity changes and rain squalls.”With better luck in the closing stages of yesterday’s final race Cutler might have ended the day in pole position.“Big disappointment was rounding the last mark in 3rd with Samba (Kilroy) in the mid-teens only to have a rain squall come through and watch Samba and 8 other boats sail around us,” he said. “But that’s yachting.”Cutler and crew are now bracing themselves for what promises to be an exciting final day of racing with so much at stake between the top three teams.“If you offered us a chance to win on the last day, we’d have taken it in a heartbeat,” the RBYC sailor said. “We have that chance, and will do our level best to take advantage of it.“We can only look forward and play the hand we have now. We have one race and we need to beat Samba by 6 (boats). We have an 8 point lead over 3rd place Warpath (Howe). No other boat can win.”At the end of today’s race teams will drop their worst score.“We have a much better drop race than both Samba and Warpath and this is quite valuable,” Cutler said. “This all makes for quite a few potential game plans for us and Samba and Warpath will be working on theirs.”Pieter Taselaar (USA), Vincenzo Onorato (ITL) and Kilroy (USA) had a win each yesterday.New York Yacht Club are the hosts for this year’s Melges 32 World Championship.