This\nshould have been the evening when everyone decorated their boats with lights\nand sailed serenely around the lake providing a spectacular finale to the\nevening races. Unfortunately, the weather had other ideas and with a 16 mph SW\nit was deemed unsafe to be sailing around in the dark, so the obligation for\nlights was waived and the race shortened to allow everyone to get home in the\nlight. Curtis set the first beat to 4 then A, 9, 5, 8, 6, 7 and back through\nthe start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There\nwere 13 starters, although Paul W was still on the bank when the gun went. He\nthen decided to launch quickly and gave a demonstration of how to rig a Laser\non the water with a little bit of help from James and Doug in the Safety boat!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile\nSimon B was steaming away in his Blaze and crossed the line about a minute\nahead of Newton & Ellen (RS 200) with Steve S (Solo) another 30 seconds\nback. Karen (Radial) came through in 4th<\/sup> place not far ahead of Dean\n& Nick, who were having fun flying their spinnaker in the Vago. Hadey (4.7)\ncrossed in 6th<\/sup> place just in front of Rick and Milo in Radials with\nWill (4.7) just 10 seconds behind them. He was followed by Ron (Mirror) and\nAlicia (Radial). Missing from this list was John H (Laser) who rounded No 7 in\nabout 5th<\/sup> place but proceeded to tack and sail right up to the buoy\nline without going through the start line! Paul W had got going and was happily\npottering around the course marks, but not necessarily in the right order! <\/p>\n\n\n\n On\nthe second lap Simon and Newton & Ellen were well away at the front and\nKaren had passed Steve to move up to 3rd<\/sup> place. Dean & Nick were\nstill flying around in 5th<\/sup>, but Milo had passed both Hadey and Rick\nto move up to 6th<\/sup>.Will had gained a place by also passing Hadey and\nAlicia had got past Ron. John H was still going well and was actually 4th<\/sup>\nacross the line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On\nthe last lap the only change in position was Rick repassing Will to move back\nto seventh heaven!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Simon\ncrossed the finish line about 3 minutes ahead of Newton & Ellen and they\nwere about the same distance ahead of Karen. The final positions on the water\nwere-<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1st<\/sup>\nSimon; 2nd<\/sup> Newton & Ellen; 3rd<\/sup> Karen ;4th<\/sup>\nSteve; 5th<\/sup> Dean & Nick; 6th<\/sup> Milo<\/p>\n\n\n\n As\na point of interest John H was 4th<\/sup> across the line and received a consolatory\ntoot from Mike A on the hooter as did Paul W who actually had bothered to deck\nhis Radial with lights earning the accolade of best lit boat on the night! <\/p>\n\n\n\n On\ncorrected time the first four boats keep their positions, but Ron takes 5th<\/sup>\nplace with Milo retaining 6th<\/sup> spot. Simon can thank his lucky stars\nthat the original Twilight Race Trophy (which was a horrendous plastic candelabra)\nhas disappeared. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks\nto Curtis and the OOD Team of Doug H, Emily S, James C, Phoebe S, Richard H, Sam\nS, Sophie F-P.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks\nalso to Sally for preparing salad and all the other bits and to Hugh with the\nhelp of Stuart for manning the Barbecue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Well\nalthough we did not get the light fantastic, it was a good race to end the\nevening season and we did have a lovely sunset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This should have been the evening when everyone decorated their boats with lights and sailed serenely around the lake providing a spectacular finale to the evening races. Unfortunately, the weather had other ideas and with a 16 mph SW it was deemed unsafe to be sailing around in the dark, so the obligation for lights was waived and the race<\/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-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-nl","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","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=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1448,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}