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The IRC fleet set off on a 28 nautical mile Island race to the East of Hong Kong Island before returning to the West side later in the afternoon.

One of IRC favourites Jelik, skippered by Frank Poing, had a main halyard problem which slowed them down for 20 minutes and therefore destroyed their chances of winning the race on corrected time. Jelik made a good recovery to take Line Honours however it was not enough to take IRC Racing Division A, which was won by Stella skippered by Fred Kinmonth. Sam Chan's Ffree Fire took second over the line and second on corrected time.

In the HKPN fleet, sailing a shorter course, former RHKYC Commodore, John Leigh's boat Johan II took both line honours, 3 hours, 23 minutes and 33 seconds, and first place on corrected time.

On corrected time, the results of the first race were as follows:

IRC Division A

Yacht		Sail No.
Stella	Fred Kinmonth	HKG 3815
Ffree Fire	Sam Chan	HKG 1892
Time	Andy Pilcher	HKG 2000

HKPN

Yacht		Sail No.
John II	John Leigh	HKG 8535
Bewitched	Glenn Smith	HKG 1850
Kali Mbwa	Simon Boyde	HKG 61