Batemans Bay Sailing Club held the annual Durras Race on November 17. Numbers were down, with five yachts starting after a fleet of eight the week before. After waiting for sufficient tide to leave the Clyde River, the fleet got away into a 10 to 15 knot south-easter.  Race officer Dave Magill and trusty crew, Terry Paton and Roger Rowe, set a true work up to the Marine Park middle mark. From there it was a reach to Wasp Island, then a run to a mark off North Durras. Attitude (Simon Byrne) grabbed the boat-end start and showed good speed and height to round the middle mark before Accolade (Lachlan Brown) and Xanthia (James Gardiner). Attitude then fluffed the spinnaker hoist to allow Accolade through. Into Beagle Bay, Attitude ran deeper than Accolade, which had a reaching kite up. Attitude led by a minute at the turn. On the work back out, Byrne headed too far out, throwing his lead away. Accolade tacked onto port off Wasp Island and got a friendly backing shift to lay North Head in one tack. On the last leg to Casey’s Beach, Accolade’s reaching kite worked well and she pulled away to a 90-second line honours win. Xanthia, sailing short-handed, did well to come in 20 minutes later for a narrow PHS victory from North Star (John Drummond). Valhalla (Dion Perrins) DNF. Thanks to Al Rosier for dropping and retrieving the North Durras mark.