The excitement of the last few minutes has more than made up for such a quiet, uneventful day.
Six boats have arrived within the last half an hour, with just a bowsprit separating one pair on the finish line.
Team Whistler arrived on its own at 5.18, with Jacqui Guy relieved to be on the run, saying ``at least this will give us a break from rowing''.
BWR Multihulls was mown down by Haphazard when it took its sails down and started rowing about 200m from the finish line. Haphazard, which made up plenty of time sailing up Coles Bay, sailed over BWR but then found it had to tack to the finish line. Because it is a fully-crewed entry Haphazard cannot use alternate propulsion but the racing multihull was able to row straight to the finish line. Its runners set off 30 seconds ahead of John Claridge and Tristan Gourlay from Haphazard. Two minutes later Sullivans Cove Whisky pulled up and dropped its runners off, and then made way for Pisces, which had sailed up from the back of the fleet on new breeze to drop of its runners at 5.44pm. Peccadillo's runners are now on course.