After a short wait while the Race Committee waited for the wind to settle and a furious game of "the chicken and the fish", the class flag was raised and we prepared to start on a port-biased line. Tim DeVries had a great start tacking onto port at the gun in the middle of the line and leading the fleet on a long port tack towards the first mark.

Tim rounded the windward mark in first place and took off down the reach with a small but significant lead over the next boats. If the wind for this race had been similar to the previous six races (consistent pressure) the race could well have been over at this time - but this was not to be. The wind gradually decreased as the leaders got closer to the gybe mark and the fleet closed right up. Dave Chadwick rode a new wind line down the reach to go from eighth at the windward mark to take the inside position at the gybe mark from Eric Oster.

At this point, Dave Spira, who was about the fifth boat from the mark in a group of seven boats in line abreast approaching the gybe mark, made a key move. He slowed and gybed behind the pack to get closer to the gybe mark. Dave Chadwick gybed at the mark but came out slowly and David Spira, followed by Rick Scarborough and Jim Irwin, who sailed through the gap to lead down the next reach.

The final reach was very tense, with Jim Irwin going high to take first place at the leeward mark, followed by Dave Chadwick and David Spira. Spira made the best mark rounding and took the inside position for the final beat and held on to take the final race and the Championship from a fast finishing Richard West and Eric Oster, followed by Tim DeVries and Dave Chadwick.