There was a good SW wind 10-15mph, which enabled\nRick to start the race from the usual flagpole (as opposed to the unusual\nflagpole) with a long beat down to 3 (about as long as you can get without portage).\nHe then went to A (which I reckon was somewhere near 2), then 4, B (your guess\nis as good as mine), 5, 6, 7 and back through the start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pursuit<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 14 takers today and no really early starters with\nthe Solos of Steve S and Chris A, the Leaders of Mike N & William and Sally\n& Mike C and the Radials of Hadey and Joe going off in a starting group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the gun, last man away Simon B in his Blaze had\ncome through the fleet to claim first place with Steve S of the starting group\nhanging on for 2nd<\/sup> place. The final order was \u2013 1st<\/sup> Simon\n(Blaze); 2nd<\/sup> Steve S (Solo); 3rd<\/sup> Mike Tr (Laser); 4th<\/sup>\nDean & Nick (Vago); 5th<\/sup> Ralph (Laser); 6th<\/sup> Hadey\n(Radial) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Handicap<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Bill (K1) joined in for\nthe second race so the fleet was up to 15, but not for long as Steve S\ndisappeared on the first lap. Dean & Nick were first back through the start\nline a minute ahead of Mike Tr and Ralph in 2nd<\/sup> and 3rd<\/sup>\nplaces and they were only 4 seconds ahead of Mike C & Sally. Hadey getting\nback to form was next, but only just ahead of Jamie (Laser). Then there was a\ngap before Simon crossed the line in 7th<\/sup> place (presumably he had\nexperienced a problem as he is usually way ahead) and he was followed by Mike\n& William, just 10 seconds ahead of Joe. Next to come through was Jon in\nhis Laser, who is usually a strong wind maestro, so he must have had a problem\nas well!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chris A in the surviving\nSolo crossed in 11th<\/sup> spot about 30 seconds ahead of Adrian (s\/h Vago\nin this wind – obviously likes to set himself a challenge). Then bringing up\nthe rear of the fleet were Bill and Alistair S (Laser), who follows Reading FC\nand usually opts for the same sort of position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rick was kind to everyone\nand blew the hooter at the end of the second lap and especially kind to Dean\n& Nick (but he was on for a pint if he finished the race when they were\nstill ahead!). Ralph and Mike Tr were having their usual ding-dong and Ralph\npassed Mike to take 2nd<\/sup> place. Unfortunately for Mike, Jon had\nsorted himself out gaining seven places and pipping Mike across the line by 3\nseconds to snatch 3rd<\/sup> place. Simon was up two places to finish 5th<\/sup>\npushing Hadey down to 6th<\/sup>. The only other movers in the right\ndirection were Chris A and Bill who both gained a place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The final order on the water was 1st<\/sup> Dean & Nick; 2nd<\/sup> Ralph; 3rd<\/sup> Jon; 4th<\/sup> Mike Tr; 5th<\/sup> Simon; 6th<\/sup> Hadey<\/p>\n\n\n\n On corrected time this becomes 1st<\/sup> Dean & Nick (we\u2019ll never hear the end of this!) 2nd<\/sup> Hadey; 3rd<\/sup> Ralph; 4th<\/sup> Jon; 5th<\/sup> Mike C & Sally; 6th<\/sup> Mike Tr<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks to Rick and the\nOOD Team of Gordon P, Issy, Pat G, Roland L and Sarah C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There was a good SW wind 10-15mph, which enabled Rick to start the race from the usual flagpole (as opposed to the unusual flagpole) with a long beat down to 3 (about as long as you can get without portage). He then went to A (which I reckon was somewhere near 2), then 4, B (your guess is as good<\/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-1442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-ng","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442","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=1442"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1446,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions\/1446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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