Uncle Al got off to a good start at the (temporarily) favoured RC boat (leeward) end, sailed into shore, got a starboard tack knock and tacked. He and David found themselves laying the mark on port with Grant Town right beside them to leeward. Being the nice guy that he is, Al managed to foot down over Grant and take his wind to round onto the run to mark B with a slight lead. Fearing the wind shadow of the cliff behind the moorings, Al sailed low on the port tack broad reach to B and got a decent breeze. But the main body of the fleet all fought each other up and got blessed with a lovely and lengthy puff which didn't die out until a half dozen overlapped leaders had reached the Two-Length Zone before Al could establish an overlap. Grant had not done much better as he ended up outside about four boats. 

Thinking that Grant in 9239 above, was stuck on the outside, Al (3854) decided to try to sneak inside but Grant got his bow free just in time to close the gap through which Uncle Al was already rounding. The ensuing 720 in the wind shadow of the cliff left Al with few boats still in a position to have to pass him. But when a large batch of overlapped leaders again threatened to raft together at mark 1, Al wisely went around the outside of the whole mess. Coming into the turn with a bit of speed, Al was able to get through the wind shadow of the rafted boats and come out the other side in 3rd place behind Peter and Dwight.

The thought of the wind funnelling along the left-hand shore enticed Al in that direction while Dwight made an early tack to port to escape Peter's bad air. The middle right side of the course was not kind to Dwight who found lots of dead spots - or was it one big one? Peter, who went middle left, lost the lead when Al got better wind along the shore. But Peter got the last laugh when a late starboard lift sent him around with a narrow lead over Al.

David's light weight came in handy down the subsequent run back to #1 where Al rounded with a narrow lead which he subsequently made relatively comfortable by finding a stronger, funnelling wind along the left-hand shore once more. While Al and Peter relatively romped across the line 1-2 in good winds, the other 11 boats sat in a giant hole at #1. Extricating himself best from this mess and taking 3rd place was Dwight Aplevich while Bob Frick and Ken Greywall lived up to their good light-air reputations with a fine 4th-place finish.