This year a new format was tried: a 5 race, no throw-out series with shorter races. It was generally agreed that the 5 race format was successful, but perhaps a throw-out should be allowed.

Saturday started with a nice wind out of the West to Southwest. Race 1, run on a 5 mile course 4, was completed as planned, with Doug and Bob Schofield taking first, Paul Sustronk and Mike Wolfs coming in second, and John Finch with Kevin Murphy coming in third. However, for Race 2 Long Island Sound showed that it can be fickle. Half way up the first lag of a course 4 race the wind quit, then came from the east, and then quit again. The three right-most boats, led by Johnny Finch and Kevin Murphy, got picked up by a nice west wind which carried them to the windward mark well ahead of the rest of the boats. As these three boats neared the finish line the Race Committee mercifully decided to shorten the course to just one round. Finch and Murphy came in first, Marshall Converse with son Reed got second, and David & Alejandra Bolles came in third. The wind held for the rest of the day and Race 3 came off nicely on a 6 mile course 3. Sustronk and Wolfs came in first, John Lombard and Kip Gardner got second, and Finch and Murphy came in third. At the end of the day it seemed like it would be a Canadian sweep.

Sunday dawned with a feeble Northerly and again dire predictions were made that there would be no racing this day. But just about the time the harbor start was due to take place a nice if shifty breeze settled in, again from the West to Southwest, and the two Sunday races were run without a hitch. Race 4, again a 5 miler run on course 4, was won by Doug and Bob Schofield, followed by John MacCausland and Brad Nichol in second and Sustronk and Wolfs in third. Race 5 was again a 6 miler run on course 3 in somewhat shiftier conditions which saw boats gaining and loosing on each leg. MacCausland and Nichol won the race, with Sustronk and Wolfs coming in second and the Schofield brothers coming in third.