Jessie James comes from behind to take the crown in heat two of Princess Royal Sailing Club winter series

Brett Hawker’s division one yacht Jessie James gave four division two boats a 30-minute start and beat them all home to win by a huge margin in heat two of the winter series on Saturday.

In a gentle south easterly breeze at about five knots the four division two boats took 12 minutes to get to the first mark, which is one of the shortest legs in the harbour course race.

Chris Oldham had Joker out in front and moving well in the light air.

Stephen Brown had Mary Maitland not far off the pace with Stephen Lee’s Flasheart hanging in and well ahead of Corrine Ridgeway in Sicarius which doesn’t like gentle breezes.

However, there was enough wind to allow spinnakers to be used but it was still slow going.

Jessie James now had the daunting task of the chase.

It was fairly apparent that when the big boat started that it wouldn’t take it long to to catch the fleet.

Hawker had the boat moving at double the speed of the smaller yachts and was looking good.

Meanwhile Brown had overtaken Joker with his skeleton crew, the skeleton was an 11-year-old junior sailor which was helpful as it made Mary Maitland just that little bit lighter.

Joker and Flasheart were having their own tussle as Jessie James moved in to take the lead and glide home to a resounding victory.

Brown was the best of the division two fleet taking second place with Lee pipping Oldham for third place.