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With the breezes continuing to build, the final races were to be the last of the day. Team Trouble won the first despite having to do spins earlier on. In race two, Team Trouble once again had to spin and then as a strong puff blew through, capsized. It looked like Route 3 Split had it sewn up and then a second puff blew down one boat from each team. This gave Team Trouble's boat, which had by now righted, a chance to get back in the game. With two boats in the water, the scores were tied. It would all come down to how fast the sailors could right their boats and how they would then tactically manage to finish. All of this is a fairly steady 30 knots of wind with higher gusts.

In the end, Team Trouble formed of Matt ALLEN, Glen OAKS, Timothy CAIN, Brad FUNK, Belleair BLUFFS, Heather PESCATELLO, Anna TUNNICLIFFE and Mark ZAGOL, had the winning combination and are the 2005 U.S. Team Racing Champions. 'Having only squeaked into the Gold Fleet, it's especially satisfying to have won,' said CAIN. 'Especially after then being down 1-0 in the semis,' added captain ALLEN.

All of the competitors had nothing but high praises for this year's hosts, Larchmont Yacht Club who ran this event in conjunction with the Hinman Masters, an enormously complex undertaking chaired by Ed 'Buttons' PADIN. 'When we originally scheduled this regatta for October, we thought we'd have great breezes. Our judgment was sound given the average of 25 knots of wind we sailed in. This made for challenging, and spectacular, team racing.'

Larchmont Yacht Club is also to be congratulated for winning the Commodore George R. Hinman Invitational Masters trophy. Larchmont won all its races in the final round beating out a highly competitive team from Pequot Yacht Club in second and Eastern Yacht Club in third.