James\nhad to contend with a light NE wind of about 8 mph, which is always a tricky\ndirection when setting a course. He opted for a Tektona start with the first\nmark as A (near to 7, but further down the lake) then B (near to 6, but again further down the lake to avoid\nthe wind shield of the trees on the North bank), 8, 5, 8,4, 2 and back through\nthe start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pursuit race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n There\nwere 12 starters this morning with Ben joining the Sunday fleet for the first\ntime sailing a Pico (welcome to the Sunday fleet Ben). Chris H (Comet) and Rhys\n(4.7) were first away and Chris was still leading at the end of the first lap\nwith Dave & Ann (Leader) in 2nd<\/sup> place but being caught by Jon\n(Laser) and Bill (K1). At the gun the final positions were \u2013 <\/p>\n\n\n\n 1st<\/sup>\nChris \u2013 Comet; 2nd<\/sup> Bill \u2013 K1; 3rd<\/sup> Jon \u2013 Laser; 4th<\/sup>\nEllen & Newton \u2013 RS 200; 5th<\/sup> Dave & Ann \u2013 Leader; 6th<\/sup>\nRichard S – Laser<\/p>\n\n\n\n Handicap Race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Everyone\nstarted the second race, which turned out to be just two laps because of the\nlight wind. Newton & Ellen (RS200) were first back through the line about\n30 seconds ahead of Richard S (Laser) in 2nd<\/sup> place, who was just\nahead of Ralph (Laser). Bill (K1) was a lonely 4th<\/sup> place well ahead\nof Chris (Comet) and Rick (Laser) and they were about 30 seconds ahead of Jon and\nAdrian, who crossed the line together in their Lasers. Dean & Nick (Vago) were\nnot far behind, but they were two minutes ahead of Dave & Ann (Leader) and\nRhys (4.7) and bringing up the rear was Ben (Pico).<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the\nend of the final lap, there was no change with the first four boats, but Jon\nhad moved up two places to 5th<\/sup> spot and that was the only change in\nposition in the entire fleet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The final\npositions on the water were \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1st<\/sup>\nNewton & Ellen; 2nd<\/sup> Richard S; 3rd<\/sup> Ralph; 4th<\/sup>\nBill; 5th<\/sup> Jon; 6th<\/sup> Rick <\/p>\n\n\n\n On\ncorrected time the first two keep their places, but Chris moves up to 3rd<\/sup>\npushing the others down one place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks to James and the OOD Team of Alistair J, Bea P, Ian B, Mike C, Mike T and Sophie. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" James had to contend with a light NE wind of about 8 mph, which is always a tricky direction when setting a course. He opted for a Tektona start with the first mark as A (near to 7, but further down the lake) then B (near to 6, but again further down the lake to avoid the wind shield of<\/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-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-kK","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","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=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1287,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions\/1287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}