It was slightly overcast tonight with a fresh SW\nwind about 13 mph. Curtis on duty for the third Wednesday in a row (he\u2019s hoping\nto get the hang of it soon!) set the first beat to A (past Tektona and nearer to\nthe buoy line), then 9, 4, 2, 5, 7 and back through the start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Newton was out in Julian\u2019s D-Zero and hoping to\nmatch Ellen\u2019s performance of leading from the front when she borrowe3d the\nD-Zero on Sunday. However, his hopes were dashed by the appearance of Simon B\nwith his flying bedstead \u2013 the Blaze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There was quite a good turn out with 18 starters\nand as predicted Simon was first back across the line, but Newton was a good\nsecond about 20 seconds ahead of Mike Tr (Laser), just ahead of Ralph in\nanother Laser. The Leader of Mike N & Nev crossed in 5th<\/sup> place\nwith Hugh (Solo \u2013 Newton\u2019s usual steed) and Richard H (Laser) not far behind in\n6th<\/sup> and 7th<\/sup> places. Dean & Nick (Vago) were next long\nin close company with Paul H in his Supernova and then Dave & Ann (Leader)\ncrossed the line overlapping Rick in his Laser. Just over 30 seconds later a close group of\nfour came through the line with Jeremy (Laser) leading Mike T (Laser), Sally\n& Roland L (Leader – Sally adding\nyet another male to her increasing list of crewmen – miss a race at your peril gentlemen, you\u2019ll\nbe over the side before you know it!) and Mike A (Lightning). A minute after\nthat motley crew, Ron turned up in his Mirror, back from his adventures at\nAbersoch, followed by Jemima (Oppie) and Rich F in his Wanderer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of the second lap there was no change in\nthe first five, but Dean & Nick had shot up to 6th<\/sup> place. Rick\nhad passed Dave & Ann to move up to 10th<\/sup>, Sally & Roland had\npassed Mike A to move up to 13th<\/sup> and there was no change in order behind\nthem, but Rich received the gun at the end of the lap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the third lap again no change in the first five,\nbut Richard H had moved to 6th<\/sup> spot by repassing Dean & Nick and\nalso getting past Hugh. There were no other movers and Ron and Jemima both\nreceived the gun as they crossed the line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The fourth lap was the last and Simon had increased\nhis lead to 2 minutes over Newton at the finish gun and Ralph snatched 3rd<\/sup>\nplace from Mike Tr. Dean & Nick moved up three places to 5th<\/sup>\nrepassing Richard H and passing Mike & Nev and Hugh. Rick gained another\nplace up to 9th<\/sup> by passing Paul H.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sally & Roland also gained a place getting past\nMike T. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The final order on the water was- 1st<\/sup> Simon;\n2nd<\/sup> Newton; 3rd<\/sup> Ralph; 4th<\/sup> Mike Tr; 5th<\/sup>\nDean & Nick; 6th<\/sup> Mike & Nev.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On corrected time this becomes \u2013 1st<\/sup>\nJemima (never rule her out!) 2nd<\/sup> Simon; 3rd<\/sup> Ralph; 4th<\/sup>\nMike Tr; 5th<\/sup> Newton; 6th<\/sup> Mike & Nev<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks to Curtis and the OOD Team of Gareth E,\nHadey, Maggie B, Susannah M and Victor. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was slightly overcast tonight with a fresh SW wind about 13 mph. Curtis on duty for the third Wednesday in a row (he\u2019s hoping to get the hang of it soon!) set the first beat to A (past Tektona and nearer to the buoy line), then 9, 4, 2, 5, 7 and back through the start. Newton was out<\/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-1433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-n7","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433","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=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1434,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions\/1434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}