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The key here for Dave (l) as Bill starts to pull away with all sails filled, is to make sure his main and jib are well trimmed while letting crew, Carol, plug away at the spinnaker. Dave won't lose much if he does this. ...

Brian (l) has pulled away into a comfortable 4th at ... ...

... the gybe ... ...

... mark. ...

A good start to his gybe but ... ...

... again, somebody needs to pull that spinnaker around to leeward soon. ...

Team Gumley gets set to ... ...

... gybe. ...

Nicely done, and the spi is around far enough to be in no danger of filling from the wrong side. ...

Looks like Lori will take the pole ... ...

... off the mast before the gybe. But she doesn't have much time. She needs to just quickly unclip the pole from the mast, let it hang from its uphaul, and get back down into the cockpit before ... ...

... the boom gybes and cuts her in half!! ...

A new approach to re-setting the pole that won't likely find favour with many! ...

Alan (7346) and Jamie (4594) remain overlapped but the former has ... ...

... the all-important inside position. ...

Note how nicely the Abbotts have their spinnaker ... ...

... pulled around into position for the new reach. ...

Robin and Carolyn are still close enough to make a move if either of the boats just ahead develop spi problems. ...

At the leeward mark, Bill rounds a comfortable 2nd. ...

Al, meanwhile, is putting half his lead onto each tack, and will now sail just to more or less remain between ... ...

... Bill and the windward mark. ...

Brian (6082) has moved into 3rd past Dave who isn't helping his cause any by being radically oversheeted for his beam reach! ...

Brian tries to help Dave out by doing a bit of spinnaker fishing and by ... ...

... oversheeting just as much as Dave. Both are sheeted in almost for upwind work but are nowhere near closehauled as we will see in the next picture where they ... ...

... turn nearly 90° to get to closehauled.

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