With the wind ghosting in from the north at 5 to 11 knots, and a west-going tide ripping across the course, PRO Stuart Childerley set up a windward-leeward challenge — 1.6nm for AC1 and 1.4nm for AC2 — well off the Hill Head shore. With the breeze flickering and the water still, it was brains over brawn from start to finish. In AC1, it was Karl Kwok’s Beau Geste (TP52, RHKYC) that led the charge — at least on the water.