Peter Gilmour leads Gavin Brady, Ed Baird and Terry Hutchinson to the next round albeit of the 40th Congressional Cup, event No. 4 on the 2003-’04 Swedish Match Tour.

One flight remains to be completed in the round robin, but Gilmour leads the event with a 15-2 record. Oracle BMW Racing’s helmsman Brady is second at 12-5 (but with 11.5 points due to an umpire-imposed penalty), while Baird and Hutchinson are tied for third with 11-6 records.

The final round robin flight is scheduled for tomorrow morning at 11:00 am. After that the four semifinalists will sail best-of-three matches. The finals are also best-of-three.

Gilmour, the overall leader of the Swedish Match Tour, won the right to select his opponent for the semifinals by winning the round robin.

Although the semifinalists are decided tomorrow’s final flight is important to determine tiebreakers for the distribution of the $25,000 prize purse.

Kelvin Harrap and Jes Gram-Hansen are tied for fifth at 9-8, while Cameron Appleton, Mattias Rahm and Scott Dickson are still in a log jam at 6-11. Allan Coutts completes the field at 0-17.


Results (Flights 14-17)

Flight 14 : Peter Gilmour def. Mattias Rahm (0'51'') - Scott Dickson def. Allan Coutts (0'30'') - Terry Hutchinson def. Gavin Brady (0'50'') - Kelvin Harrap vs. Jes Gram-Hansen (DNF) - Ed Baird def. Cameron Appleton (0'26'')

Flight 15 : Hutchinson def. Dickson (0'13'') - Harrap def. Brady (0'14'') - Gram-Hansen def. Appleton (0'03'') - Gilmour def. Baird (0'16'') - Rahm def. Coutts (0'26'')

Flight 16 : Hutchinson def. Coutts (0'25'') - Harrap def. Dickson (0'25'') - Brady def. Appleton (0'21'') - Gilmour def. Gram-Hansen (0'59'') - Baird def. Rahm (0'10'')

Flight 17 : Hutchinson def. Harrap (0'18'') - Appleton def. Coutts (0'57'') - Gilmour def. Dickson (0'33'') - Gram-Hansen def. Rahm (0'33'') - Brady def. Baird (0'29'')