**A new sailor just stole Sydney on the stopwatch: yuugen won in 2:33.91 despite a 5.5s start delay—and still had it down to a 7.76s photo finish over handicap-loaded Brad Garbers.** On a ~0.25 nm triangle, it turned into a pure time-trial knife fight: one reach decided everything.

yuugen didn’t win by owning the start—Randypix had the best launch at just 0.2s delay while yuugen gave away the most time among the top five—but by stacking leg wins when it mattered. The opening upwind already hinted at it: yuugen was 1.6s quicker than Brad Garbers with stronger VMG (4.94 kts to 4.73). Brad answered on the next reach, clawing back 0.7s, and even beat yuugen to the line on the final beat by 1.7s—exactly the kind of late pressure that creates a finish this tight.

The decisive moment was the second reaching leg: both sailors made the same single gybe, but yuugen blasted through in 24.7s to Brad’s 27.7s, a 3.0s swing with a big VMG edge (8.93 kts vs 7.48). That cushion held, even with Brad sailing a remarkably efficient maneuver count (just 1 tack, 1 gybe total) and still grabbing 2nd despite his 8.0s handicap—an outright handicap-hero drive on a course where every second is visible.

Behind them, the rating story stayed spicy. Randypix backed up yesterday’s front-run pace with 3rd at 2:51.82 even while carrying a massive 25.0s handicap, and John—yesterday’s winner—was right there again in 4th at 2:54.07 with a 10.5 kt max speed, only 2.25s off the podium. At the other end, Stuff showed real top-end potential with a 10.6 kt max speed, but a 42.8s start delay and a costly final beat left too much time on the course—tightening start timing and trimming distance on that last beat is the clearest path to turning that speed into a much faster overall run next time.

yuugen

Brad Garbers

Randypix

John

Tdancer324

Magaman

Stuff

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Hi! Welcome to MarineVerse Cup Race in Sydney on November 13th of 2026.. Sailing instructions. Racing markers order: 1, 2, 3... Racing News: Yesterday's race was won by John representing New Zealand.. There were 5 other sailors racing... Congratulations John!.. Word of the day: draft.. Good luck and ..Happy sailing!!!

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1	yuugen	153.91s
2	Brad Garbers	161.67s
3	Randypix	171.82s
4	John	174.07s
5	Tdancer324	181.14s
6	Magaman	221.89s
7	Stuff	258.88s

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