Due to the 10 AM start, a 3-hour time limit was implemented. This affected two semi-final games. One of which ended in a tie. Both players advanced, but Robert Eastman bowed out to catch his plane and accepted 6th place as his fate. defending champion Matt Evinger squeaked out a preliminary victory by two points to advance and keep his title defense alive. The later start affected the attendance, down to 30 from 50 the previous year.

A flurry of initial RED cards in the Final saw DL's San Leandro run around, ME adding the San Juan to his fleet, a strike which bothered no one, and a hull fire starting in DL's Montanez. MM drew first blood by sinking the Insurgente. AA hit ME with the British Break the Line and everyone caste a hungry gaze towards the defending champion. A Weathergauge, pulled by ME, saved himself from any losses. MM tried the American Break the Line, only to have DL pull the last Weathergauge. BP sank the damaged Montanez, while ME damaged the Royal Sovereign. ME takes advantage of a combination of broadside and rake cards to sink the Royal Sovereign. AA put 3 damage on a listing Orient and DL sank it with another 3-hit broadside. MM slammed the Victory with 3 mast damage. Both Blockades get placed and this set the scene for the next flurry of action. ME took Victory's rigging down and used a Boarding Party, rolling a 6 to take and declare it as a prize. His very next turn he played one of three Refuse Battles he had been holding and gains an instant 30 VP. The focus of the game now shifts to ME as he has taken over first place with a commanding lead of 46 VP. Profoundly, it will be the last VP he earns for the remainder of the game. DL had the uncanny misfortune of drawing bad cards. In addition to all the RED cards which caused him to miss more than one turn, he managed to drew three himself and for a while no usable ammunition. He did however play four Additional Ship cards and managed to sink the Orient. I think the others felt sorry for him? Late in the game DL managed to hoard enough ammunition to dismast the Mars and steal it.

From the results of the second deal it looked like ME would have an easy time on his way to another victory, but the other players would prevent him from scoring any points. BP started the action with a 2-hit mast shot to the Orient. AA loses the Ville D Paris to a Run Aground and MM places a fire in the rigging of the Orient. AA places a Break The Line on ME. .Two fires now raged in the Hull of ME's dismasted Orient. MM draws the Shannon only to have it dismasted, stolen and added to AA's fleet. So on his very next turn MM sinks it. DL's propensity for drawing RED cards continued as he delivers a Strike card to ME's Orient and it STRIKES! One turn later with two hull fires and seven hull damage the Orient explodes! History has repeated itself. BP sinks the Constellation. While AA successfully boards and prizes the Britannia for 30 VP. In a succession of turns BP sinks MM's Insurgente, dinks then sinks the Serapis, Blockades DL's port, withstood the British Break the Line from DL, sinks the San Juan De Nepomunceno. Finally he boards, steals and declares as a prize the San Justo. DL's final play of the game came as he drew yet another RED Card which happened to be the last remaining Weathergauge clearing the British Break the Line. With only one card remaining in the deck BP drew and played a Refuse Battle to gain 22 VP. During his "Glorious 8th of August" he racked up 69 VP and ended the game after only two decks scoring a total of 103 VP. Matt Evinger's try for two straight years with "wood" falls short.

Final Round Scores

Player	1st Hand	2nd Hand	Place	1st Fleet	2nd Fleet
Bill Peeck - BP	34	69	1st - 103	1,1,3,3,4,5	3,3,3,4,4,5
Mike Mitchell - MM	43	31	2nd - 74	2,2,4,5,5,5	1,3,3,3,4,5
Dave Long - DL	28	36	3rd - 64	3,4,4,5,5,6	2,3,3,4,5,5
Alan Arvold - AA	17	38	4th - 55	1,2,3,5,5,6	1,1,3,3,4,6
Matt Evinger - ME	46	0	5th -46	1,2,3,3,3,5	1,1,2,2,2,5