Light\nwinds this morning so Adrian set a short course of X, 5, 9, 4 and back though\nthe start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pursuit race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n There\nwere 13 starters and at the end of the first lap Mike C & Sally (Leader)\nwere leading ahead of Ellen & Newton (RS200) with Jon (Laser) in 3rd<\/sup>\nplace having just passed Nev & Mike in the second Leader out today. Simon\n(Blaze) was catching them fast followed by Bill in his K1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the gun the order was \u2013 <\/p>\n\n\n\n 1st<\/sup> Ellen & Newton; 2nd<\/sup> Mike C & Sally; 3rd<\/sup> Simon; 4th<\/sup> Jon; 5th<\/sup> Bill; 6th<\/sup> Nev & Mike<\/p>\n\n\n\n Handicap Race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Everyone\nstarted the second race and at the end of the first lap Simon came through the\nline one minute ahead of Newton & Ellen, who were closely followed by Ralph\n(Laser) and Bill (K1). Then Jon and Rick both in Lasers crossed the line\nvirtually together with Jon\u2019s bow just ahead. Thirty seconds late Nev &\nMike crossed in 7th<\/sup> place with Dean & Nick (Vago), Gareth E\n(Laser) and Richard S (Laser) close behind them. Sally & Mike C were only\nten seconds further back, but they were well ahead of Franz (Laser) and Emily\n(Topper).<\/p>\n\n\n\n On\nthe second lap Simon doubled his lead and there was no change in the order of\nthe next five boats, but Richards S gained three places to move up to 7th<\/sup>\nplace and Nev & Mike passed Gareth E to move up one place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No\nchange in the leading three at the end of the third lap, but Jon had moved up\none place to 4th<\/sup> by passing Bill. Nev & Mike passed Dean &\nNick and Rick to move up to 6th<\/sup> place, but no other changes in the\nright direction? Emily, the only young sailor out today, received the gun at\nthe end of the lap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On\nthe fourth lap Jon moved up to 3rd place and Bill up to 4th<\/sup> place at\nthe expense of Ralph and everyone else maintained station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At\nthe end of the fifth and last lap (for nearly everyone) Simon was now six\nminutes ahead of second placed Newton & Ellen and he was so far ahead that\nAdrian sent him round for another lap in case he felt deprived of race time!\nBill pipped Jon by one second for 3rd<\/sup> place and Richard S got past\nNev & Mike to take 6th<\/sup> spot and Rick snatched 8th<\/sup>\nplace from Dean & Nick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The\nfinal order on the water was \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1st<\/sup>\nSimon; 2nd<\/sup> Newton & Ellen; 3rd<\/sup> Bill; 4th <\/sup>Jon;\n5th<\/sup> Ralph; 6th<\/sup> Richard S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On\ncorrected time, no change in the first two places, bur Nev & Mike take 3rdwithJon, Ralph and Richardkeeping their places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks\nto Adrian and the OOD Team of Gareth D, Issy, John W, Karen T and Ron. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Light winds this morning so Adrian set a short course of X, 5, 9, 4 and back though the start. Pursuit race There were 13 starters and at the end of the first lap Mike C & Sally (Leader) were leading ahead of Ellen & Newton (RS200) with Jon (Laser) in 3rd place having just passed Nev & Mike in<\/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-1282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-kG","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282","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=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1283,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions\/1283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}