1.   But in a yachting competition, racing chicanery often creates daring moves on the straightaway and logjams rounding the marks.

2.   Conner rounded the mark more than four minutes behind Mighty Mary, then split well off to the left while Mighty Mary went right.

3.   In the early hours of Wednesday morning, both boats rounded the mark off Nantucket Shoals and altered course for the mainland.

4.   Prada rounded the mark and performed a bearaway spinnaker set, a hoist mimicked by the San Franciscans.

5.   Shortly after rounding the mark, its jib broke free from the headsail track in the gusting wind.

6.   The start was a downwind run to Cottlesloe Beach, where we rounded the mark that took us around Rottnest Island.

7.   But the Kiwis came back on starboard tack and sailed to windward of oneAustralia, rounding the mark eight seconds ahead.

8.   As the crew struggled to haul it free, Davis rounded the mark dragging the chute alongside, and Black Magic sailed farther away.

9.   Tokio, which led after four legs but broke a mast off the coast of Brazil in the fifth leg, rounded the mark in fourth place.