Three days of solid racing have now been completed but surely there’ll be no orange juices in the bar tonight. Lay day tomorrow and it’s time to crack the top off a few coldies, relax and take a load off.

Flemo surely can’t stumble from here on, but there again will the day off upset his mojo and see him take the slippery slide on the last day of racing on Saturday.

At the end of day 3 and twelve races we now see three international skippers occupying positions in the top ten. Sweden’s Ulf Neumann has retained his fifth position overall while Graham Watson (NZL) had a good start to the day, a bump in the middle and a bullet to finish to hang in sixth overall. Norrie Taylor (RSA) has found his way into tenth with a couple of fourths and is certainly capable of moving a couple of spots further up the rankings.

Other international competitors include Gunnar Moller (SWE) 13th, John Armstrong (GBR) 19th, Taco Faber (NED) 21st, Mark Shakeshaft (NZL) 25th, Dirk Tesmer (GER) 27th and Adam Zmunda (CZE) 36th all of whom make this a truly international event and we thank them for their participation.

With tomorrow time to rest the body, recover from the hangover of tonight we look to the final day of racing on Saturday. No doubt it’ll be more of the same 24C and 15 or so knots from the SE.

After a flop in race 12, can the Grand Master Peter Burford hang on to 2nd place or will Scott Mitchell finally get his form back and make a late charge for the trophy after a pretty average day today – it’d be great to see a close finish (but doubtful), or can Queensland’s quiet achiever Malcolm Kampe come up from fourth and jump on the podium – 2nd is well within reach!

While Flemo has a handy lead which one would consider is championship winning, there’s certainly a battle ahead for the minor placings. Two more sleeps and we’ll all find out!

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