The final races of the series turned out to be a wet and windy affair, completely different to most of the Summer Sundays.<\/p>\n
The incessant rain resulted in only eight starters this morning, although all of them persevered and completed both races. The series leader in both Pursuit and Handicap, Chris H in his Comet, finished in style by winning both races , so congratulations to Chris on winning the Summer Series.<\/p>\n
Pursuit Race<\/strong> Handicap Race<\/strong> The final position on the water were \u2013 On handicap of course Chris takes the victory with Mike Tr up to 2nd, Ron 3rd, Ralph 4th, Adrian 5th and Newton & Ellen 6th.<\/p>\n Thanks to Rick and the OOD Team of Bob W, Brian M and Chris B.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The final races of the series turned out to be a wet and windy affair, completely different to most of the Summer Sundays. The incessant rain resulted in only eight starters this morning, although all of them persevered and completed both races. The series leader in both Pursuit and Handicap, Chris H in his Comet, finished in style by winning<\/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-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-hJ","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","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=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1100,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions\/1100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nChris H (Comet) caught early starter Ron (Mirror) and managed to stay ahead of Newton & Julian (RS200) to claim victory at the gun. The final order was \u2013
\n1st Chris H \u2013 Comet; 2nd Ron \u2013 Mirror; 3rd Newton & Julian \u2013 RS200; 4th Ralph \u2013 Laser;
\n5th Mike Tr \u2013 Laser; 6th Adrian \u2013 Rooster; 7th Chris M \u2013Laser; 8th Nick & Dean – Vago<\/p>\n
\nA five lap affair and at the end of the first lap Chris H led from Newton & Ellen with Ron 3rd, but then the wind increased and Ralph came through to the lead on the second lap with Mike Tr up to 2nd and Adrian up to 3rd place. Newton & Ellen were 4th just ahead of Chris M and Dean & Nick in close company with Chris H and Ron bringing up the rear.
\nBy the end of the third lap Mike Tr had taken the lead from Ralph and Dean & Nick were up two places to 4th pushing Newton & Ellen down to 5th place. Chris H had gained a place by passing Chris M.
\nMike Tr still led on the fourth lap but Adrian had passed Ralph to move up to 2nd. Newton & Ellen and Chris M had got past Dean & Nick to move to 4th and 5th and Romn received the gun at the end of the lap.
\nThe last lap saw Adrian with his big sail Rooster crossing the line to claim victory on the water. The only other mover was Chris H gaining two places to finish in 5th place .<\/p>\n
\n1st Adrian; 2nd Mike Tr; 3rd Ralph; 4th Newton & Ellen; 5th Chris H; 6th Chris M; 7th Nick & Dean; 8th Ron (one lap down)<\/p>\n