It was very windy morning and nearly all capsized at some point.\nIn fact, at one point a big gust came through and knocked four or five down\nlike skittles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pursuit race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n There\nwere 10 starters and enough wind for the fast boys at the back <\/strong>to\ncatch the early starterswith Simon in\nhis Blaze coming through the fleet to take the gun at time up. Mike T (Laser)\nwas 2nd<\/sup> and Will (Radial) did well to stay ahead of James (Laser)\nand claim the family honours by finishing 3rd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Steve S (Aero) was 5th<\/sup> with Adrian (Laser) in 6th<\/sup>\nplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Handicap Race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Franz\ndecided not to take part, so we were down to 9 for the second race of the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\nwas a three-lap affair and Simon led for all three laps with Steve S in 2nd<\/sup>\nplace for all three laps<\/p>\n\n\n\n At\nthe end of the first lap Adrian was 3rd<\/sup> just ahead of James in 4th<\/sup>\nwith Mike T 5th<\/sup>. Some way back Chris H (Comet) in 6th<\/sup>\nplace was well ahead of Ron (Mirror), Will (Radial) and Dean & Nick in the Vago,\nthe only double-hander out today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On\nthe second lap Mike T moved up to 3rd<\/sup> place with James retaining 4th\n<\/sup>with Adrian down to 5th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The\nmain excitement was towards the rear of the fleet with Team Vago. The Jones boys were excelling in their capsizes, including one\nwith the spinnaker up! The onlookers watched knowing exactly what was going to\nhappen. Things went further downhill for them after that, because they missed\nout No 6. Eventually they got back and rounded 6, then capsized again, and then\nacquainted themselves with the trees. They even jinked the rescue boat because\nin attempting to recover them its bung came out and the boat filled with water.\nPrime candidates for the Endeavour trophy for battling on through adversity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chris, Ron and Will all received the gun at the ed of the lap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Back to the final lap and no change in the front three, but\nAdrian had repassed James to take 4th<\/sup> place. The final positions on\nthe water were \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1st<\/sup> Simon; 2nd<\/sup> Steve S; 3rd<\/sup> Mike;\n4th<\/sup> Adrian; 5th<\/sup> James; 6th<\/sup> Chris H (one lap\ndown)<\/p>\n\n\n\n On corrected time the first three retain their positions, but\nRon moves up to 4th<\/sup> with Adrian 5th<\/sup> and James 6th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Unfortunately, the names of the OOD Team were not recorded on\nthe race sheet, but should have been Dave P, Christopher K, Issy, Mark P, Mark\nR and Simon R, so thanks to you if you turned up, if not where were you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was very windy morning and nearly all capsized at some point. In fact, at one point a big gust came through and knocked four or five down like skittles. Pursuit race There were 10 starters and enough wind for the fast boys at the back to catch the early starterswith Simon in his Blaze coming through the fleet to<\/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-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-ky","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","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=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1276,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions\/1276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}