It was a fair wind this\nmorning, 12-14 mph from the SW. Mark set the first mark as 5 then 9, 3, 2, 6, 7\nand back through the start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pursuit Race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 12 starters and at the end\nof the first lap the early starters were still ahead with Ron (Mirror) leading\nfrom Chris H (Comet), Dave & Ann (Leader), Sally & Mike (Leader) and\nChris A (Solo) with the RS200s of Paul & Nev and Newton & Ellen chasing\nthem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the gun the order was – 1st<\/sup> Simon (Blaze);\n2nd<\/sup> Ron; 3rd<\/sup> Jon (Laser); 4th<\/sup> Chris H; 5th<\/sup>\nDave & Ann (Leader) 6th<\/sup> Sally & Mike (Leader) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Handicap Race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Everyone started the\nsecond race and Simon was first back through the line a minute ahead of Ellen\n& Newton, who were only just ahead of Jon in 3rd<\/sup> place, who in\nturn was closely followed by Paul & Nev and James (Laser). A minute later Chris\nA and Dave & Ann crossed the line together battling for 6th<\/sup>\nplace. Then came Chris H and Rick (Laser) with only a second between them with Mike\n& Sally not far behind and bringing up the rear of the fleet were Alistair\nS (Laser) and Ron (Mirror). <\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of the second\nlap Simon had increased his lead to three minutes and Jon and Paul & Nev\nhad passed Ellen & Newton. James, Chris A and Dave & Ann had maintained\nstation, but Rick had gained one place to move to 8th<\/sup> and Alistair\ntwo places up to 9th. Ron received the gun at the end of this lap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the finish Simon and\nJon retained 1st<\/sup> and 2nd<\/sup> positions, but Ellen & Newton\nhad regained third place. James claimed 4th<\/sup> spot from Paul & Nev.\nRick gained another place by passing Dave & Ann to finish in his favourite\nposition of 7th<\/sup> (well not actually his favourite \u2013 he would prefer 1st<\/sup>!).\nChris H also regained a place by repassing Alistair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The final order on the water was \u2013 1st<\/sup> Simon; 2nd<\/sup>\nJon; 3rd<\/sup> Ellen & Newton; 4th<\/sup> James; 5th<\/sup>\nPaul & Nev; 6th<\/sup> Chris A<\/p>\n\n\n\n On corrected time this becomes \u2013 1st<\/sup> Simon; 2nd<\/sup>\nJon; 3rd<\/sup> Ron; 4th<\/sup> Ellen & Newton; 5th<\/sup>\nJames; 6th<\/sup> Chris H<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks to Mark and the OOD Team of Chris S, Loti, Richard C and Roland L <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was a fair wind this morning, 12-14 mph from the SW. Mark set the first mark as 5 then 9, 3, 2, 6, 7 and back through the start. Pursuit Race 12 starters and at the end of the first lap the early starters were still ahead with Ron (Mirror) leading from Chris H (Comet), Dave & Ann (Leader),<\/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-1399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-mz","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399","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=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1400,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions\/1400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}