Race three of the winter series was sailed in good conditions with the nor-west breeze building throughout the race.

'It was just one of those long clean races really,” says Tauranga Yacht and Power Boat Club commodore Roger Clark.

'I don't think anybody passed anybody, started off in procession and stayed there. It was a pretty clean race.”

Extreme took line honours, Kaimai Flyer on handicap and Fast Lane on the recently introduced adjusting handicap.

'It's some Auckland thing that they are trying – it's like golf, if you run aground or have a really bad race your handicap changes heaps for the next race,” says Roger.

'It's crazy, it's not a sailing handicap, it's a golfing handicap.”