With a light E to NE wind\nJames opted for a Tektona start with the firs mark A (near 8 but further out\ninto the lake) then 5, 9, B (going towards 2) 4 and back through the start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pursuit Race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n There were 17 starters\nthis morning and early starter Ron (Mirror) was still leading at the end of the\nfirst lap with Chris H (Comet) in 2nd <\/sup>place, Sally & Mike C\n(Leader) 3rd<\/sup>, Will (Radial) 4th<\/sup>, Newton & Ellen\n(RS200) 6th<\/sup> and Mike A (Radial) 6th<\/sup>. At the gun the final\norder was \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1st<\/sup> Chris H; 2nd<\/sup>\nNewton & Ellen; 3rd<\/sup> Ron; 4th<\/sup> Sally & Mike C; 5th<\/sup>\nWill; 6th<\/sup> Jess (Laser)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Handicap Race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Jess (Laser), Peter R (Enterprise),\nDave P (National 12) and Paul H (Supernova) all decided to give the second race\na miss, so the fleet was down to thirteen. James tweaked the course to A, 5, 9,\nX (on the buoy line down from 5), B, 3 and back through the start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n First back though the\nline was Karen (Laser) closely followed by Ellen & Newton (RS200) then there\nwas quite a gap back to Jon (Laser) in 3rd<\/sup> place. He led a very\nclose pack consisting of Mike C & Sally (Leader), Jamie H (Laser), Rick L\n(Laser), Chris A (Solo) and Jeremy (Laser). This group stayed pretty well\ntogether for the whole of the race exchanging pleasantries as they rounded the marks!\nChris H (Comet) was next across the line in 8th<\/sup> place followed about\na minute later by Will and Mike A in Radials, then Ron (Mirror) and Cecilia\n(Radial).<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of the second\nlap there was no change in the first three, but Rick was up two places to 4th<\/sup>\n(his holiday must have revitalised him) and Chris H was up four places to 5th<\/sup>. Chris A gained a place to move to 6th<\/sup>\nand Will did the same to move to 9th<\/sup> place. Everyone else maintained\nstation or slipped back, probably more slipping back than staying put! Cecilia received the gun at the end of this\nlap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the last lap Ellen\n&Newton managed to get past Karen to cross the line in 1st<\/sup>\nplace. Jon and Rick held their places, but Will gained four places and took 5th<\/sup>\nspot with Chris A hanging on to 6th<\/sup>. Jamie H regained a place to\nmove to 7th<\/sup> and Mike A passed Jeremy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The final positions on\nthe water were \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1st Ellen & Newton; 2nd<\/sup>\nKaren; 3rd<\/sup> Jon; 4th<\/sup> Rick; 5th<\/sup> Will; 6th<\/sup>\nChris A<\/p>\n\n\n\n On corrected time this\nshould change to \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1st<\/sup> Ellen\n& Newton; 2nd<\/sup> Karen; 3rd<\/sup> Ron; 4th<\/sup> Chris H;\n5th<\/sup> Will; 6th<\/sup> Chris A<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks to James and the OOD Team of Bea, Ferdinando, John H and Nev. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With a light E to NE wind James opted for a Tektona start with the firs mark A (near 8 but further out into the lake) then 5, 9, B (going towards 2) 4 and back through the start. Pursuit Race There were 17 starters this morning and early starter Ron (Mirror) was still leading at the end of the<\/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-1377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-md","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377","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=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1378,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions\/1378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}