In a light and shifty westerly with glassy water, Creative got in the passing lane on the right side of the run to move from 8th at the weather mark to 1st at the leeward mark, and held off Lorax, and Harald Kolter's Das Boot to win race 1. The wind filled in to a steady 8-12 knots as the race committee set up for the start of race 2. Lorax won the second race, with Creative in sixth after returning from a premature start and hitting the leeward mark. Peter Fortune's Air Force took second, and Das Boot took another third. Creative recovered from their race 2 woes to win the third race followed closely by Lorax in second and Air Force in third.

The second day brought 15-25 knot winds out of the southwest and a chance for everyone to demonstrate their boat handling skills. Lorax took both races followed by Creative with two seconds. Sailing 80 pounds light hurt Creative in the heavy air. On the last downwind leg of the second race Lorax's knotmeter registered 8-14 knots as she surfed down the course. Air Force took third in the first race but was forced to drop out of the second race with a broken main halyard. Mika and Jerry Lohmeyer's “big dogs” took a fourth and a third on day two, despite almost losing crew Gil Shoemaker overboard in the second race.

As the third day began, Lorax and Creative, after throwouts, were only a couple of points apart, and the wind was light again, about 5-10 out of the northeast. Creative came after Lorax aggressively at the start of race 6. They established a commanding leeward position, and beat Lorax soundly off the line. Both boats were in the second row, however, and Lorax was able to find a little better breeze on the right to lead the first lap, with Creative a distant 4th. On the second beat Elixir and Airforce both slipped past Lorax on the left and, despite being covered most of the beat, Creative had closed to within 4 boat lengths of Lorax by the last weather mark. The breeze was light on the run to the finish, and Creative matched Lorax jibe for jibe down the run, ever inching closer. Coming into the finish Lorax held the starboard advantage and forced Creative to jibe to weather and just ahead a little above the rhumb lne to the pin end of the line. But Creative executed two perfect light air jibes and were able to squeak past Lorax to take 3rd and keep their championship hopes alive.

The wind continued light in the second race of day three (race 7 of the series), and Creative led until she let Lorax take a short hitch to the left near the end of the second weather leg, allowing her to pass both Creative and Das Boot. That hitch clinched the regatta for Lorax. She rounded the last weather mark first followed by Das Boot and Creative and held them both off on what turned out to be the final race of the Express 27 Championship Sailing World's NOOD Regatta. Sunday's race was canceled due to very light and patchy wind.

Lorax took first in the Nationals with eight points followed by Creative with 12 and Air Force with 23. Peter Fortune won the Carl Schumacher Owner-driver Trophy awarded by the class to the top owner who steered his own boat. Harald Kolter won the second place owner-driver flag, and Jerry Lohmeyer took third. Darryl Greb's Midnight Express from Solomon's Island, Maryland, edged Bob Harvey's Trim from Muskegon, Michigan for the event's Top Traveler award.

Three of Lorax's crew came from the San Francisco Bay area—Paul and Sarah Deeds and Hugh Davis, one from New York—Brian McCloskey and one from Detroit—Lorax's owner, Ralph Deeds.