This years event saw one of the strongest line-ups since the days of BT sponsorship in the late 90s with a lot of strong qualifying teams as well as women's world champion Lucy Macgregor. The same as last year though the Final saw us go head to head against Mark CJ who was teamed up with long time trimmer Dave Mason as well as his brother Paul and Nick Hutton, both fresh from a victory in the Extreme 40 world series. Just to make things interesting we managed to ut in front in races three and four until we were head to wind and dead level at the final windward mark in the decider. Somehow we built speed first and squeeze round the mark to take the gun and the series. A particularly satisfying win coming from behind against a tough opponent.