Well it could be that the long hot dry spell is over. It was wet and windy this morning. The wind was SE\/ESE 13 \u2013 18 mph. Paul R used a start line with a committee boat attached to buoy 5 and the first mark X was in the direction of buoy 1 then 9, 4, 6, 5 and back through the start.<\/p>\n
Pursuit Race<\/strong> Handicap Race<\/strong> On handicap the order will remain the same apart from Ron leapfrogging up to 2nd.<\/p>\n Thanks to Paul R and the OOD Team of Damian, Jan & Paul H, Pat G and Richard M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well it could be that the long hot dry spell is over. It was wet and windy this morning. The wind was SE\/ESE 13 \u2013 18 mph. Paul R used a start line with a committee boat attached to buoy 5 and the first mark X was in the direction of buoy 1 then 9, 4, 6, 5 and back<\/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-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-he","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","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=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1069,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThere were 9 starters and they managed to get three laps in before the hooter sounded to finish the race. The final order was \u2013
\n1st John H \u2013 Laser; 2nd Mike Tr \u2013 Laser; 3rd Jamie H \u2013 Laser; 4th Chris H \u2013 Comet; 5th Franz- Laser; 6th Ben H \u2013 Radial; 7th 130022 \u2013 Laser (apologies for not getting your name); 8th Ron \u2013 Mirror
\nDNF Ken P<\/p>\n
\nJamie H and Ken P did not take part in the second race and Paul shortened the course slightly by dropping No 5. The remaining seven completed five laps, apart from Ron in his Mirror who received the gun after four laps, having just been lapped by the winner Mike Tr.
\nThe final positions on the water were \u2013
\n1st Mike Tr; 2nd John H; 3rd Franz; 4th Ben H; 5th Chris H; 6th Laser 130022; 7th Ron.<\/p>\n