Venezuela and Puerto Rico nailed the Group H start, though a broken jib sheet quickly forced Puerto Rico left for repairs while the rest of fleet headed right toward Sugarloaf Mountain. Playing the shifts cleanly in a 12-knot breeze, Antigua & Barbuda rounded the windward mark first and extended downwind, leaving Uruguay trailing at the back.
At the leeward gate, the chasing pack rounded nose-to-tail. Uruguay surged into second upwind and then Puerto Rico suffered a caught spinnaker retrieval line on the final downwind leg.
Finding strong breeze on the left, Uruguay powered past Antigua & Barbuda for a dramatic victory, with Venezuela third.