It was a bit cooler tonight with a brisk West wind\n13- 15 mph with stronger gusts coming through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Karen, Rick and Mike To opted for Radial rigs and Nigel decided to take out a Topper instead of his Laser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There were 14 starters and Simon B (Blaze) was\nfirst back across the line then Ellen and Karen came through close together with\nJamie about 20 seconds later and all of these were sailing Lasers. Newton\n(Solo) crossed in 5th<\/sup> place just ahead of Dean & Nick (Vago)\nfollowed by Ralph, Richard H and Rick in Lasers and grouped closely together.\n30 seconds later Paul H (Supernova) and Mike Tr (Laser) crossed the line\ntogether battling for 10th<\/sup> place not far ahead of Mike To in Radial\nrig Laser and Thomas in a full rig Laser with Nigel bringing up the rear of the\nfleet in his Topper. <\/p>\n\n\n\n On the second lap Simon had increased his lead to\nthree minutes over Ellen and Karen, but there was no change in the order of the\nfirst seven boats. Rick and Mike Tr crossed the line together in joint 8th<\/sup>, but there were no other\nmovers behind them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the third lap there was an unexpected change at\nthe front when Simon retired as he had sailed the wrong course (he\u2019s not the\nonly one who did not know the course!) This obviously moved everyone up a\nplace, but Ralph improved on that by moving up three places to 4th<\/sup>\nspot with Newton still 5th<\/sup> and Rick up two places to 6th<\/sup>.\nMike To also retired and Nigel received the finish gun at the end of the lap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No change in the order of the first three as they\nfinished the fourth and last lap. Mike Tr made up three places and just pipped\nRalph for 4th<\/sup> place (sweet revenge for last week when Ralph did the\nsame to him!) In moving up to 4th<\/sup> Mike also passed Rick and Newton\nand to make matters worse for Rick he was also caught by Dean & Nick and Richard\nH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The final order on the water was \u2013 1st<\/sup>\nEllen; 2nd<\/sup> Karen; 3rd<\/sup> Jamie; 4th<\/sup> Mike Tr; 5th<\/sup>\nRalph; 6th<\/sup> Newton<\/p>\n\n\n\n On corrected time the only change is Newton moving\nup to 3rd<\/sup> place pushing the rest down a place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks to Steve S and the OOD Team of Andrew S, Ben\nE, Cliff P, Ken P and Leon S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This was the last race of the series and Jemima in\nher Opppie was the overall winner with Karen in 2nd<\/sup> and Newton 3rd<\/sup>\nplace. Congratulations to them all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was a bit cooler tonight with a brisk West wind 13- 15 mph with stronger gusts coming through. Karen, Rick and Mike To opted for Radial rigs and Nigel decided to take out a Topper instead of his Laser. There were 14 starters and Simon B (Blaze) was first back across the line then Ellen and Karen came through<\/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-1436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-na","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436","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=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1437,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions\/1437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}