The second day started breathlessly calm and hot. Although a light sea breeze set in the committee kept the fleet ashore a full two hours in the hope the breeze would build. However, the wind did not climb much over five knots and the committee eventually sent the fleet afloat in the hope of at least getting a race in.
In the light and fitful sea breeze once again it was Howie Hamlin's Wild Oats Chardonnay who lead the fleet around the windward mark, followed by Yandoo Ssangyong, then Grant Rollerson, Anthony Young and Cam Macdonald on the brand new Slam skiff and a group of three UK skiffs, headed by Gill/Wet & Wild sailed for the day by Mark Addison with Mark Tait and Penny Hooper, then Andy Richards, Andrew Fairley and Dave Richards on Pindar and TMF. Slam took the lead on the first run and were never challenged, Yandoo Ssangyong held on for second and Pindar worked clear o the next group to take third. Gill, Wet and Wild took fourth but were later penalised for not signing on and TMF came in 5th. Wild Oats had an uncharacteristically bad day and slipped back to ninth, loosing their overnight lead in the process to Ronstan UK who came home sixth and are now tied on 11 points for the lead with TMF, but have the advantage of a race win. With the breeze again dropping the fleet were then sent back to the beach after what had been a frustrating and trying days sailing for most.
After 3 races (no discard)
1 Ronstan UK - Ian Turnbull (GBR) 11pts
2 TMF - Jarrod Simpson (GBR) 11pts
3 Wild Oats Chardonnay - Howie Hamlin (USA) 12 pts
4 Slam - Grant Rollerson (AUS) 14pts
5 Yandoo Ssangyong - John Winning (AUS) 15pts