{"id":106,"date":"2017-06-05T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T10:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2017\/06\/05\/summer-series-race-2-4th-june\/"},"modified":"2017-06-05T10:35:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T10:35:00","slug":"summer-series-race-2-4th-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2017\/06\/05\/summer-series-race-2-4th-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Series Race 2 4th June"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The forecast was for a WSW wind about 10 mph, but in fact it was slightly stronger than that, probably 12 \u2013 13 mph. Mike A set the first beat to 4 then 2p, 9p, 5s, 8p ,6s, 7s and back though the start<\/span><\/div>\n
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Pursuit Race<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
There were 20 starters and at the end of the first lap Newton & Ellen (RS200) and Paul R (Aero) had caught and passed the early starters and came through close together but well ahead of everyone else.  Dave P (Mirror) would have probably crossed the line in 1st<\/sup> place, but instead of turning down to No 8 he continued across towards 6 and by the time he realised his mistake he decided it was not worth turning back and retired. The Comets of Nev and Chris H were next through the line, but being closed down by James and Richard S in Lasers.<\/span><\/div>\n
At the gun Paul R had a clear lead from Newton & Ellen and James had moved up to 3rd<\/sup> and Jon up to 4th<\/sup> with Richard S 5th<\/sup> and Hugh 6th<\/sup>. <\/span><\/div>\n
Other movers up the fleet were Ralph and Rick (Lasers) both up three places and Jeremy up two places. Peter R sailing his Enterprise (single handed) capsized, but did finish the race as he was on the water when the gun sounded.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Handicap Race<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Neville<\/span> decided to sit this one out so there were 19 starters for the second race and again Paul and Ellen & Newton came back through the line in 1st<\/sup> and 2nd<\/sup> well ahead of the rest of the fleet. The four Lasers of Richard S, Jon, Hugh and James were next through and Richard and Jon actually crossed the line together. Steve S (Solo) came through in 7th<\/sup> followed by Hadey (Radial) who was just ahead of Dave & Ann (Leader) and Ralph (Laser), closely followed by Sylvia (Radial), Peter S (Byte CII) and William (4.7). Next through the line and abreast of one another were Chris A (Solo) and Rick (Laser), then there was a slight gap back to Jeremy (Laser) and another gap back to Chris H (Comet) with Dave P (Mirror) bringing up the rear. Peter R decided to retire on this lap. The problem with an Enterprise is that once capsized they come up full of water not dry like a Laser! <\/span><\/div>\n
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There was no change in the positions of the two leaders at the end of the second lap, but Paul had pulled further ahead. Jon was a clear 3rd<\/sup>, but James had moved up to 4th<\/sup> with Hugh 5th<\/sup>. Richard must have had a moment because he was back to 6th<\/sup>. Further back Sylvia had gained four places to move up to 7th<\/sup> and Rick had also gained four places to move to 10th<\/sup>. Jeremy and Chris H both moved up one place by getting past William. Dave P received the finish gun at the end of the lap.<\/span><\/div>\n
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At the end of the third and last lap there was no change with the two leaders, but Richard had come back well to take 3rd<\/sup> place. The other movers up the order were Steve S reclaiming 7th<\/sup> spot from Sylvia, Hadey up one place to 8th<\/sup>, Dave & Ann up one place to 10th<\/sup> and Peter S up two places to11th and Chris A also gained a place.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The final positions on the water were \u2013 <\/span><\/div>\n
1st<\/sup> Paul R; 2nd<\/sup> Ellen & Newton; 3rd<\/sup> Richard S; 4th<\/sup> Jon; 5th<\/sup> James; 6th<\/sup> Hugh.<\/span><\/div>\n
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On handicap the first four should retain their positions, but Steve S should move up to 5th<\/sup> pushing James down to 6th<\/sup>. <\/span><\/div>\n
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Thanks to Mike A and the OOD Team of Dean & Sue J, Damian M, Ken, Will S and Ian S.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The forecast was for a WSW wind about 10 mph, but in fact it was slightly stronger than that, probably 12 \u2013 13 mph. Mike A set the first beat to 4 then 2p, 9p, 5s, 8p ,6s, 7s and back though the start   Pursuit Race There were 20 starters and at the end of the first lap Newton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-1I","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","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=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}