The long distance race of 55 miles from Diamond Head round the corner of Oahu to Kaneohe and return. We were in last position as we rounded the mark in Kaneohe bay, as again we had no boat speed upwind. Our pointing was better as we decreased halyard tension and increased backstay and brought our jib cars back to twist the sail off and open up the entry for power over the waves. The halyards have to be so loose that there are nasty horizontal lines almost into the 2nd panels of the jib and 1/3 of the way back in the main. After rounding the mark we picked up two places by hitting the shore hard and sailing rhum line coarse on the reach and downwind. We were one minute behind 2nd place ending up in 4th.