Last\nSunday should have been Frostbite 9 race, but the lake was frozen (for the\nfirst time this Winter and hopefully the last!). Not that it was a great deal\nwarmer this morning with a cold strong WNW wind about 12 \u2013 14 mph. Ellen set X\nas the first mark (North of 5 on the buoy line) then 5, 1, 4, 3, 8 and back\nthrough the start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There\nwere 13 starters and first back through the line was Mike T (Laser) followed by\nthe Lasers of Jon, James, Ralph and Adrian all fairly close together. Next\nthrough the line were Sally & Mike C in the first of the three Leaders out\ntoday, just ahead of Newton (Solo) in 7th<\/sup> place. Then came the\nsecond of the Leaders manned by the jolly bandsmen Nev & Mike N, only just\nahead of Mark D (Laser) and the Jones boys in the Vago, who were being chased\nby Dave & Ann in the third Leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bringing\nup the rear were the spanners in the works, Chris H (Comet) and Ron (Mirror),\njust when you think you are far enough ahead \u2013 you find out that you were not\nfar enough ahead!<\/p>\n\n\n\n At\nthe end of the second lap there was no change in order for the Laser lads at\nthe front, although they were having a good scrap. Newton had gained a place by\npassing Sally & Mike C and Mark D had got past Nev & Mike N. If the\nboys at the front were having fun, so were the three Leaders and the Vago in\nthe double-hander battle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On\nthe third lap there was still no change at the front with Mike T still leading\n(but not by much) from Jon with James in 3rd<\/sup> place. Further back Nev\n& Mike N had repassed Mark D and were closing on Sally & Mike C, but\nthere were no other changes in position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chris\nand Ron who had been ploughing a lone furrow at the back of the fleet or\nperhaps making a solitary wake, received the finish gun at the end of this lap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At\nthe finish Mike T crossed the line about 20 seconds ahead of Jon with James in 3rd<\/sup>\nplace about two minutes further back. Adrian and Ralph had a close tussle all\nthough the race and Adrian just pipped him across the line for 4th<\/sup>\nplace. Newton who had a bit of a lonely race, with the Lasers away in front and\nMark D and the Double Handers behind (did they make the charts in the 70s?),\nfinished 6th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nev\n& Mike N could not quite catch Sally & Mike who took the Leader honours.\nBehind them Dean & Nick had managed to ease away from Dave & Ann, who\nmay have had a moment as their last lap was their slowest of the race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The order on the water was \u2013 1st Mike T; 2nd<\/sup> Jon; 3rd<\/sup> James; 4th<\/sup> Adrian; 5th<\/sup> Ralph; 6th<\/sup> Newton<\/p>\n\n\n\n On\ncorrected time the first two keep their places, but Ron moves up to 3rd<\/sup>\n(told you!). Newton moves up to 4th<\/sup> with James 5th<\/sup> and Adrian\n6th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks\nto Ellen and the OOD Team of Alistair S, Bob W, Chris M, Gary W, Jeremy and Rick. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last Sunday should have been Frostbite 9 race, but the lake was frozen (for the first time this Winter and hopefully the last!). Not that it was a great deal warmer this morning with a cold strong WNW wind about 12 \u2013 14 mph. Ellen set X as the first mark (North of 5 on the buoy line) then 5,<\/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-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-ki","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","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=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1264,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions\/1264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}