While most people are taking advantage of the relaxing period between Christmas and the new year, Bermuda’s young sailors were in action at the Orange Bowl Youth Regatta in Florida.

Among hundreds of the best young sailors in the world, the talented squad performed with credit, with Dylan Menzies finishing 39th of the 97 sailors in the Ilca 6.

Menzies had five top-25 finishes in his ten-race campaign and may well have finished higher but for being disqualified in race three.

Benjamin De Couto finished best in the Optimist fleet, finishing 132nd overall with his best finishes coming when 27th in his first race and his last race, which came in the silver fleet. De Couto finished 15 places ahead of Rex Hanagulph, who finished his campaign in the silver fleet at 147th overall.

Sean Pedro showed signs of promise, winning two of his races in the bronze fleet and finishing eight in another on his way to finishing 158th, ahead of Calypso Coulter in 167th among the 224-strong fleet

Aaron Riker finished 173rd, with Alfie Jansma 198th and James De Couto 199th.

In the green fleet, set up for some of the more inexperienced sailors, Jacob Beale finished best of the Bermuda sailors in 38th ahead of Ethan Adelsberg (45th), Hudson Pitcher (46th) and Eamon Tiwari 60th of the 72 youngsters in the fleet