Drinking two beers at once and talking about the race is a skill that Apollonius bowman AJ has down pat. He reports that the Julian Robinson designed, built and skippered monohull had an encounter with the bottom going out of the pot boil. But one advantage of being one of the last boats out of Flinders Island, as also happened last year, was that they got wind for the whole run down the coast and set a quick time, unlike the rest of the fleet.