It\nwas quite a light wind this morning, but a good turnout for the race between\nChristmas and the New Year with 15 starters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mike\nT (Laser) was first back through the line but only just ahead of a tight pack consisting\nof James, Steve S, Ken, Ralph, Rick, Ellen, Newton and Alistair S, all within\n30 seconds of one another, with Steve in his Aero and Newton in his Solo and\nthe rest in Lasers. The two Leaders of Sally & Mike C and Dave & Ann\nwere next through the line, very close together sandwiching Chris H in his\nComet. Nor far behind Chris was Will P (Radial)\nabout one minute ahead of Ron (Mirror) with Rhys (4.7)bringing up the rear of\nthe fleet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On\nthe second lap Mike T maintained his lead but it was all change behind him.\nSteve had moved up to 2nd<\/sup> and Ralph up to 3rd<\/sup> with James\ndown to 4th<\/sup> place. Rick had gained a place to move to 5th<\/sup>\nand Newton gained two places up to 6th<\/sup>. The only other change in the\nright direction behind these was Sally & Mike C passing Alistair to move to\n9th<\/sup> place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By\nthe end of the third lap Ralph had gained another place to move up to 2nd<\/sup>\nand James regained a place to move to 3rd<\/sup>. Newton and Ken were up\ntwo places to 4th<\/sup> and 5th<\/sup> respectively pushing Rick back\ndown to 6th<\/sup> spot. Further back Chris passed Alistair to move to 10th<\/sup>\nand Will moved up to 12th<\/sup> by passing Dave & Ann. Ron and Rhys\nreceived the gun at the end of this lap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At\nthe end of the last lap the first two retained their positions but Newton had gained\nanother place to take 3rd<\/sup> place over the line. Steve had a good last\nlap moving up three places to finish 4th<\/sup> with James down to 5th<\/sup>.\nEllen also had a good last lap gaining two places to finish 6th<\/sup> with\nKen down to 7th<\/sup> and Rick down to 8th<\/sup> place. Behind these there were no further changes in\nposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The final order on the water was \u2013 <\/p>\n\n\n\n 1st<\/sup> Mike T; 2nd<\/sup> Ralph; 3rd<\/sup> Newton; 4th<\/sup> Steve S; 5th<\/sup> James; 6th<\/sup> Ellen<\/p>\n\n\n\n On\ncorrected handicap time Newton gets the victory with Chris moving up from 10th<\/sup>\nto 2nd<\/sup> (you have to get a long way ahead of these Comets and Mirrors!).\nMike T who was first over the line was down to 3rd<\/sup> with Ralph 4th<\/sup>,\nJames 5th<\/sup> and Ron who finished a lap earlier in his Mirror up to 6th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks\nto SOOD Dave Isaacs and the OOD Team of Bill I, Peter W and Peter R.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was quite a light wind this morning, but a good turnout for the race between Christmas and the New Year with 15 starters. Mike T (Laser) was first back through the line but only just ahead of a tight pack consisting of James, Steve S, Ken, Ralph, Rick, Ellen, Newton and Alistair S, all within 30 seconds of one<\/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-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-k1","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","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=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1243,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/1243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}