Bad news for Heider and Mark: the wind is losing some of its zip, as can be seen by the lack of hiking here. These lighter winds are Al's bread and butter, and the latter began to foot out as the three leaders continued to head left on starboard. Ultimately, there came a big starboard header. At this point, Al tacked, crossed and tacked back onto the headed tack to obtain a strategic stranglehold between Mark and Heider and the windward mark. All three eventually went left into the Humber River shift, where Al waited for Mark and Heider to tack before sitting on them all the way to the windward mark where he ...

The wind is now light enough that Marc is holding the spinnaker sheet "short", i.e. he is holding it from just aft of the shroud and bypassing all the blocks. This puts less sheet weight on the clew of the spinnaker and lets Marc ease the sheet without friction interference from said blocks. The barberhauler is partially on in order to keep the sheet from getting wedged in between the boom and the shroud.