diff --git a/racevisionGame/src/main/java/mock/app/Event.java b/racevisionGame/src/main/java/mock/app/Event.java
index 47696875..7d1ec47d 100644
--- a/racevisionGame/src/main/java/mock/app/Event.java
+++ b/racevisionGame/src/main/java/mock/app/Event.java
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ public class Event {
         //Read XML files.
         try {
             this.raceXML = RaceXMLCreator.alterRaceToWind(raceXMLFile, 90);
+            //this.raceXML = XMLReader.readXMLFileToString(raceXMLFile, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
             this.boatXML = XMLReader.readXMLFileToString(boatsXMLFile, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
             this.regattaXML = XMLReader.readXMLFileToString(regattaXMLFile, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
 
diff --git a/racevisionGame/src/main/java/mock/xml/RaceXMLCreator.java b/racevisionGame/src/main/java/mock/xml/RaceXMLCreator.java
index 55ff04ce..f1b83479 100644
--- a/racevisionGame/src/main/java/mock/xml/RaceXMLCreator.java
+++ b/racevisionGame/src/main/java/mock/xml/RaceXMLCreator.java
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ public class RaceXMLCreator {
     public static String alterRaceToWind(String s, double degrees) throws XMLReaderException, InvalidRaceDataException, JAXBException, IOException, SAXException, ParserConfigurationException {
         RaceXMLReader reader = new RaceXMLReader(s, XMLFileType.ResourcePath);
 
-        XMLRace race = (XMLRace) XMLUtilities.xmlToClass(new File(RaceXMLCreator.class.getClassLoader().getResource(s).getFile()),
+        XMLRace race = (XMLRace) XMLUtilities.xmlToClass(RaceXMLCreator.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(s),
                 RaceXMLCreator.class.getClassLoader().getResource("mock/mockXML/schema/raceSchema.xsd"),
                 XMLRace.class);
 
diff --git a/racevisionGame/src/main/java/shared/xml/XMLUtilities.java b/racevisionGame/src/main/java/shared/xml/XMLUtilities.java
index 76694d62..8e01cb76 100644
--- a/racevisionGame/src/main/java/shared/xml/XMLUtilities.java
+++ b/racevisionGame/src/main/java/shared/xml/XMLUtilities.java
@@ -16,10 +16,7 @@ import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
 import javax.xml.validation.Schema;
 import javax.xml.validation.SchemaFactory;
 import javax.xml.validation.Validator;
-import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
-import java.io.File;
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.StringWriter;
+import java.io.*;
 import java.net.URL;
 
 /**
@@ -52,6 +49,13 @@ public class XMLUtilities {
         return xmlToClass(document, schemaURL, c);
     }
 
+    public static Object xmlToClass(InputStream i, URL schemaURL, Class c) throws ParserConfigurationException, IOException, SAXException, JAXBException {
+        DocumentBuilder parser = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();
+        Document document = parser.parse(i);
+
+        return xmlToClass(document, schemaURL, c);
+    }
+
     public static Object xmlToClass(Document document, URL schemaURL, Class c) throws ParserConfigurationException, IOException, SAXException, JAXBException {
         JAXBContext jc = JAXBContext.newInstance(c);
         Unmarshaller unmarshaller = jc.createUnmarshaller();