The final day of any boat class Worlds can often an odd one. Sailors battle each other all week. Throughout that time, as in real battles, small skirmishes, pockets of unseen individual personal heroism and little victories happen all over the field, aside from the main strategic objective.  Nearly everyone is involved in some way or other.  And the final victory could range from an overwhelming and inexorable force, that was usually apparent from early on, to a touch and go, narrow-margin, last ditch effort to secure the strategic objective.