Well it was a pretty miserable night with\npersistent rain and very little wind. There was quite a discussion on the sun\ndeck (really) as to whether it was worth going out. Eventually there was a sort\nof domino effect and we finished up with a fleet of eight, just when Ellen\nthought she might escape SOOD duty! There were various motivations for going\nout, Jemima, Newton and Ron were in with a chance of Series points towards the\ntop of the leader board. Sally & Stuart went out because Dave & Ann\nwent out and they needed to keep tabs on them in the Leaders\u2019 own competition.\nRhys and Hugh went out in a Feva to give Rhys some double handed sailing and\nDean & Nick and Mike A went out because they were daft enough to do so! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The wind was supposed to be about 5 mph from the ESE,\nbut it was less than that and what there was coming from all over the place.Ellen\nwisely set a short course with a first mark as X (roughly halfway between 6 and\n7) then A (going up towards the buoy line), B (about halfway between the buoy\nline and 8) then 8 itself and back through the start. This was basically a box\ncourse in the hope that somewhere you would get a beat or a reach or a run at\nsometime!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It turned out to be a two lap race and Mike A (Lightning)\nled at the end of the first lap followed by Dean & Nick (Vago), perhaps not\nas daft as they look! They had ousted Newton from his early 2nd<\/sup>\nplace. Five minutes later Dave & Ann\n(Leader) came through in 4th<\/sup>, about two minutes ahead of Jemima\n(Oppie) in 5th<\/sup>. Then Ron (Mirror) and Rhys & Hugh (Feva) crossed\nthe line one minute apart in 6th<\/sup> and 7th<\/sup>. At this point Sally & Stuart had not\nlong crossed the start line and were hoping for a stiff tail wind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the second lap Dean & Nick and Newton were\ninexorably closing Mike down and they both (well all) passed him on the way\ndown to 8 with Dean & Nick drawing away at the front. They crossed the line\nabout four minutes ahead of Newton. Meanwhile Mike had got stuck at 8 and\neventually crossed the line seven minutes behind Newton and only three minutes\nahead of Dave & Ann in 4th<\/sup> place (which was a close finish on a\nnight like this). Further back the boys (and the girl) were in bother as the\nwind had now disappeared! It took Ron about 10 minutes just to round 8 and he\nfinally crossed the line in 5th<\/sup> place about thirteen minutes after\nDave & Ann. At the back Jemima and Rhys & Hugh demonstrated remarkable\nperseverance crossing the line ten minutes after Ron, but giving us a thrilling\nfinish with only five seconds between them. Sally & Stuart pragmatically\ndecide to retire, which was just as well as otherwise we would be taking\nbreakfast out to them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Order on the water was- 1st<\/sup> Dean & Nick (which may be a\nfirst ever?) 2nd<\/sup> Newton; 3rd<\/sup> Mike A; 4th<\/sup> Dave\n& Ann; 5th<\/sup> Ron; 6th<\/sup> Jemima; 7th<\/sup> Rhys &\nHugh<\/p>\n\n\n\n On corrected time the only change is Jemima\nchanging positions with Ron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Congratulations to the Jones boys, pity it was not\na cup race, as last year they finished third in three series and got nowt!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks to the very wet Ellen and OOD Team of Graham\nK, Kate T, Nick J, Nigel L and Simon B.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Well for some of them not quite as wet as Ellen moved to the flagpole adjacent to the clubhouse and was able to officiate under cover. This caused some consternation on the water when the finishers could see no sign of life around the start flagpole and thought everyone had packed up for the night! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well it was a pretty miserable night with persistent rain and very little wind. There was quite a discussion on the sun deck (really) as to whether it was worth going out. Eventually there was a sort of domino effect and we finished up with a fleet of eight, just when Ellen thought she might escape SOOD duty! There were<\/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-1351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-lN","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351","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=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1353,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions\/1353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}