A lovely hot sunny day for the start of the 2018 Summer Series, but there was very little wind !<\/p>\n
Pursuit Race<\/strong> Handicap Race<\/strong> On handicap the first two will keep their positions but Ron will move up to 3rd place with Chris up to 4th and Mark and Nick & Dean will tie for 5th place.<\/p>\n Thanks to Dave L and the OOD Team of Ann L, Alistair and several others who pitched in to help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A lovely hot sunny day for the start of the 2018 Summer Series, but there was very little wind ! Pursuit Race Despite the patchy wind there were 14 starters and by the gun Ellen & Newton had managed to catch the early starters to take the win. The final positions at the gun were \u2013 1st Ellen & Newton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-gj","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions\/1013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDespite the patchy wind there were 14 starters and by the gun Ellen & Newton had managed to catch the early starters to take the win. The final positions at the gun were \u2013
\n1st Ellen & Newton (RS200); 2nd Chris H (Comet); 3rd Karen (Laser); 4th Laser 1374239; 5th Mike Tr (Radial); 6th James (Laser)<\/p>\n
\nJames, Simon (Blaze), Dave I, Rick and Jules all decided not to contest the second race, presumably they had to be home in time for tea or supper!
\nThe race was a one lap affair and lasted about 30 minutes. Wisely Dave L decided not to send them round again or it might have been very much longer and some might have missed their bedtime as well as supper.
\nAt the end of the lap the positions on the water were \u2013
\n1st Newton & Ellen; 2nd Mike Tr; 3rd Mark (Laser); 4th Nick & Dean (Vago); 5th Karen; 6th Laser 137439 (rumoured to be Steve S?); 7th Adrian (Rooster); 8th Chris H; 9th Ron (Mirror)<\/p>\n