Nice and sunny this morning, but a cool edge to the wind\ncoming from NNW but veering considerably and between 8-10 mph. James used a\nTektona start with the first mark as A (between 5 and 6 close to the buoy line.\nIt was good to see Paul W back on the water and to see Lottie turning out\nagain. Adrian opted for the intricacies of sailing his Vago single handed<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pursuit<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n There were 13 starters and at the end of the first\nlap early starter Ron was leading in his Mirror with second away Mike A\n(Lightning) holding on to 2nd<\/sup> but being rapidly caught by Jessica (Laser)\nand Ellen & Newton (RS200). At the gun the final positions were 1st<\/sup>\nJessica (Laser); 2nd<\/sup> Julian B (D-Zero); 3rd<\/sup> Ron (Mirror);\n4th<\/sup> Newton & Ellen (RS200); 5th<\/sup> Mark (Laser); 6th<\/sup>\nRichard S (Laser).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Handicap<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Julian W decided to rest his new Solo not to mention\nhis old bones and Lottie kindly relinquished her Laser to Oom PaPa, better known\nto us as Rick (who had been busy trying to sell one of the club\u2019s boats during\nthe Pursuit Race).<\/p>\n\n\n\n First man back across the line was Julian B (D-Zero)\nwith Ellen & Newton (RS 200) about 30 seconds behind him and Jessica about\nthe same distance coming through in 3rd<\/sup> place. Next along were the Lasers of Mark, Richard S\nand William B (Rick was probably in this group too), not far ahead of Chris A\n(Solo) and Ralph (Laser). Ron (Mirror) crossed in 9th<\/sup> with Mike C\n& Sally (Leader) catching him with quite a gap behind them back to Mike A\n(Lightning) and Rhys (4.7). Behind them were Adrian doing spinnaker exercises\nand Rich F in his Wanderer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the second lap there was no change in the first\nthree, but Ralph had moved up four places to 4th <\/sup>and Rick was back\nup to his favourite position of 7th<\/sup>! Paul W and Rich received the finish\ngun at the end of this lap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of the third lap Julian B crossed the\nline to take victory on the water about one minute ahead of Ellen & Newton.\nRalph had passed Jess to take 3rd<\/sup> place from her and Richard S had\ngot past Mark to take 5th<\/sup> place. Chris A gained a place up to 7th<\/sup>\nby passing Rick, Mike C & Sally passed William B to take 9th<\/sup>\nplace and Adrian got past Ron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The order on the water was – <\/p>\n\n\n\n 1st<\/sup> Julian B; 2nd<\/sup> Ellen &\nNewton; 3rd<\/sup> Ralph; 4th<\/sup> Jessica; 5th<\/sup> Richard S;\n6th<\/sup> Mark<\/p>\n\n\n\n On corrected time this changes to – <\/p>\n\n\n\n 1st<\/sup> Ellen & Newton; 2nd<\/sup>\nRalph; 3rd<\/sup> Jessica; 4th<\/sup> Julian B; 5th<\/sup> Ron; 6th<\/sup>\nRichard S<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks to James and the OOD Team of Bea, Eva C, John\nR and Paul K. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nice and sunny this morning, but a cool edge to the wind coming from NNW but veering considerably and between 8-10 mph. James used a Tektona start with the first mark as A (between 5 and 6 close to the buoy line. It was good to see Paul W back on the water and to see Lottie turning out again.<\/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-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-nc","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438","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=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1440,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions\/1440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}