Race 2
Monday started around 3.15 pm.

By the start of the second race the sea had 1.5 to 2 metre waves quite close together and looking like
mighty hard work.
Even so only one boat elected not to start the second race.
Once again it was Hans first to the top mark followed by Geert and Marcus with Matt's capsizing practice
paying with him managing to get another one in (on the work) and still being 4th at the top mark followed by Gil & Kathlene and then the team of John & Paul Alani.

Going up the second work Hans is still in the lead with Geert & Karin and Matt & Bart engaged in a battle so close that you could just about step from one boat to the other all the way up the work with Marcus 3 or 4 boat lengths
behind.

By this stage of the racing every now and then we were getting really large waves of 2 to 2.5 metres going
through the fleet.

On the next downwind Geert is washed off his boat probably by one of the monster waves and picked up by Mark Presdee. The rubber ducky boat I was in had to help out to get Geert back to his boat because you couldn't bring two cats close toghether in those seas.

While doing this positions were changing on the course and by the rounding of the top mark for the last
time John and Paul had moved into second ahead of Marcus, then Paul & Anne and Matt &Bart and that is how they finished.