There was a biting cold wind coming from the NW blowing about 18-20 mph with gusts of 40 or more. Dave\nI set the first mark as 6 then 9, 5, 3, 8 and back through the start. There\nwere five Laser variants with Ralph and Adrian boldly opting for full rigs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Seven\nhardy souls set forth and Ralph was first back through the line just ahead of\nJames (using his Radial rig) with Will (Radial) and Adrian not far behind them.\nThen about two minutes later Chris H (Comet) came through just in front of Rhys\n(4.7) and Ron (Mirror).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At\nthe end of the second lap Ralph had slightly increased his lead with Will now 2nd<\/sup>,\nbut only just from James. Behind these Ron had caught and passed Rhys and it is\nprobable that Adrian was still 4th<\/sup> but was missed crossing the line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ralph\ncame to grief on the third lap and retired, by no means the first to capsize\nand definitely not the last! James was now in the lead one minute ahead of Will,\nwith Chris H moving up to 3rd<\/sup>. Adrian crossed in 4th place about two\nminutes ahead of Ron, and Rhys who was further back and had gamely battled on\nwas finished (in more ways than one!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Just\nafter starting the last lap Chris went over and embedded his mast, he managed\nto pull it clear, but when righting the boat, it came straight back over him\nand re-embedded the mast! Meanwhile James had got slightly further ahead of son\nWill and they crossed the finish line well clear of Adrian in 3rd<\/sup>\nplace with Ron persevering to cross in 4th<\/sup> place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The\nfinal positions on the water were-<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1st<\/sup>\nJames; 2nd<\/sup> Will; 3rd<\/sup> Adrian; 4th<\/sup> Ron; 5th<\/sup>\nRhys (one lap down)<\/p>\n\n\n\n On\ncorrected time Ron should take 1st<\/sup> place with William leapfrogging\nJames (on a full rig handicap) to pip him for 2nd<\/sup> place with Adrian 4th<\/sup>\nand Rhys 5th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Well\ndone to all of them including the non-finishers Chris and Ralph and especially young\nRhys, the lightest helm out today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks\nto Dave I and the OOD Team of Chris K, Frantz, Paul H and Richard M, who all\nhad to brave the bitter wind without the benefit of an adrenalin rush! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There was a biting cold wind coming from the NW blowing about 18-20 mph with gusts of 40 or more. Dave I set the first mark as 6 then 9, 5, 3, 8 and back through the start. There were five Laser variants with Ralph and Adrian boldly opting for full rigs. Seven hardy souls set forth and Ralph was<\/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-1251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-kb","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251","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=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1252,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions\/1252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}