Second race:
Well, I guess I was wrong about the low chop -- apparently, it is BIG chop, so Rick and Chip boat is not going to go back to the finish line to get the finishes, because it would beat them to death to get home from there. (So much for intrepid reporters.)

Anyway, here was the order of the first 12 around the weather mark for the second time in the second race:

1. Murray Philpott, NZ
2. Patrick Burger, USA
3. Dieter Melcher, Switzerland
4. Lars Guck, USA (He was in 10th the first time around the weather mark and moved up to 4th)
5. Eugenio Callabria, Italy
6. Phil Kinder, USA
7. Luc Dubois, Sweden
8. Chad Atkins, USA
9. Mitch Booth, NED
10. Hoekstra, NED
11. Charlie Ogletree, USA
12. Glenn Ashby, Australia

They will get me the rounding positions the last time around the weather mark, and you will have to wait a while to get the actual finish positions.

Rick says the first weather mark rounding in this race was really tight, with a lot of boats, but the second time around, the race committee moved the mark to the right, apparently because of a wind shift. A bunch of the first boats went to the original mark and did not realize the course had been changed until they saw a RC boat picking up the original mark. Then they headed for the new mark.

Philpott was in the lead going to the wrong mark, but managed to maintain his lead when he got to the correct mark.