There was a general warning\nof gale force winds and a forecast for RG4 of a SW wind of 22 mph and gusts far\nhigher, which reduced the fleet to just six brave souls. In fact, on the day\nthe wind was about 14 mph with gusts of around 20 mph, so still quite frisky\nbut not as strong as forecast. Julian B set the first beat to 3 then 4, 8, 6, 7\nand back through the start. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pursuit Race <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n By the end of\nthe first lap Jon (Laser) was leading early starter Chris H (Comet) with Mike\nTr (Laser) in 3rd<\/sup> place and looming up behind them Simon in his\nBlaze already past James and Rick in Lasers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the gun the final order\nwas \u2013 1st<\/sup> Simon; 2nd<\/sup> Jon; 3rd<\/sup> Mike Tr; 4th<\/sup>\nJames; 5th<\/sup> Chris; 6th<\/sup> Rick<\/p>\n\n\n\n Handicap Race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Everyone stayed on the water\nfor this race and first back through the line was Mike Tr about 20 seconds\nahead of Jon who crossed the line just in front of Simon. James was 4th<\/sup>\nabout 30 seconds ahead of Rick with Chris crossing about one minute after Rick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the second lap Simon took\nthe lead with Mike in 2nd<\/sup> place, but only by 5 seconds from Jon.\nBehind them there was no change in the order, but James and Rick had edged\nslightly further ahead of Chris, which was not surprising considering Chris was\nin a Comet and they were in Lasers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The third lap saw no change\nin position and there was only one change on the fourth lap as Jon pipped Mike\nfor 2nd<\/sup> place by just 10 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The order on the water was \u2013\n1st<\/sup> Simon; 2nd<\/sup> Jon; 3rd<\/sup> Mike; 4th<\/sup>\nJames; 5th<\/sup> Rick; 6th<\/sup> Chris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On corrected time the only\nchange is Chris leapfrogging Rick to move up to 5th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks to Julian B and the\nOOD Team of Chris S, Karen, Nick J and Nigel J. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There was a general warning of gale force winds and a forecast for RG4 of a SW wind of 22 mph and gusts far higher, which reduced the fleet to just six brave souls. In fact, on the day the wind was about 14 mph with gusts of around 20 mph, so still quite frisky but not as strong as<\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-o5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493","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=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1494,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions\/1494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}