Well\nit was not quite as windy as the gale force winds yesterday, but there was a\nbrisk NW wind 14-15 mph for the 14 starters this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pursuit Race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n At\nthe end of the first lap the earlier starters were still leading with Ron\n(Mirror) way out in front followed by Steve S (Solo) then the trio of Leaders,\nNev & Mike N, Sally & Mike C and Dave & Ann.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The three leading boats were still ahead at the gun and the final order was \u2013 <\/p>\n\n\n\n 1st<\/sup> Ron; 2nd<\/sup> Steve S; 3rd<\/sup> Nev & Mike; 4th<\/sup> Ralph; 5th<\/sup> Karen; 6th<\/sup> Ken <\/p>\n\n\n\n Handicap Race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mike\nT (Laser) was first back through the line not far ahead of the Lasers of Ken,\nRalph, Karen and Jon. Adrian (Laser) and\nNewton & Ellen (RS200) crossed the line together battling for 6th<\/sup>\nplace. Then it was the first of the Leaders manned by Nev & Mike N closely\nfollowed by Sally & Mike C. There was a slight gap before Alistair S\n(Laser) came though some distance ahead of Dave & Ann in the third of the\nLeaders, who had Dean & Nick (Vago) on their transom. Finally, about a\nminute later Ron turned up in his Mirror at the rear of the fleet, but were the\nleaders far enough ahead to shake him off?<\/p>\n\n\n\n At\nthe end of the second lap Karen crossed the line just a whisker ahead of Mike T\nwith Ralph still 3rd<\/sup>. Newton & Ellen and Nev & Mike had\npassed Adrian to move up to 6th<\/sup> and 7th<\/sup> respectively and\nbehind them Ron had got past Dean & Nick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On\nthe third lap Mike T regained the lead from Karen, and Ken passed Ralph to take\n3rd<\/sup> place and Adrian regained 7th<\/sup> spot from Nev &\nMike. There was no change in the order\nbehind them and Ron and Dean & Nick received the finish gun at the end of\nthis third lap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the finish Mike T had managed to ease away from Karen to take the victory. Jon had moved up two places to 3rd<\/sup> and Ralph and Newton & Ellen had passed Ken to take 4th<\/sup> and 5th places respectively. Nev & Mike were still 8th<\/sup> in front of Sally & Mike C and the latter were nearly caught on the line by Alistair S, who was about a minute ahead of Dave & Ann, the lanterne rouge recipients. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Final order on the water was \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1st<\/sup> Mike T; 2nd<\/sup> Karen; 3rd<\/sup> Jon; 4th<\/sup> Ralph; 5th<\/sup> Newton & Ellen; 6th<\/sup> Ken – definitely a Laser day on the water today!<\/p>\n\n\n\n On\ncorrected time there was no change in the order of the fist five, but Ron\npushes Ken out of 6th<\/sup> place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks to SOOD Rick and the OOD Team of Cecilia, Jess, Graham and Paul W. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well it was not quite as windy as the gale force winds yesterday, but there was a brisk NW wind 14-15 mph for the 14 starters this morning. Pursuit Race At the end of the first lap the earlier starters were still leading with Ron (Mirror) way out in front followed by Steve S (Solo) then the trio of Leaders,<\/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-1306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-l4","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306","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=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1307,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions\/1307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}