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It was another windy morning with a South wind about\n12 -18 mph with stronger gusts coming through. Mark set the first mark as 9,\nthen A, 4, 8, 6, 7 and back through the start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pursuit Race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n There were 9 starters this morning and at the end of\nthe first lap Ellen & Newton (RS 200) were just ahead of Mike T (Laser) and\nJon (Laser) with early starter Chris H (Comet) crossing the line 30 seconds\nlater in 4th<\/sup> place. Ralph (Laser) was not far behind Chris, but a\nminute ahead of the trio of Simon (Blaze), Rick (Laser) and Franz (Laser). Ken\n(Laser) retired on this first lap. <\/p>\n\n\n\n At the gun the final positions were \u2013 1st<\/sup> Simon; 2nd<\/sup> Newton &\nEllen; 3rd<\/sup> Mike T; 4th<\/sup> Ralph; 5th<\/sup> Jon; 6th<\/sup>\nFranz <\/p>\n\n\n\n Handicap Race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Apart from Ken, everyone started,\nand Simon was first back through the line almost a minute ahead of Newton &\nEllen. Then there was a procession of Lasers all fairly close together led by\nMike T followed by Ralph, Rick, Jon and Franz with Chris bringing up the rear\nin his Comet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the second lap the only\nchanges were Jon passing Rick and Ralph to move up to 4th<\/sup> place and\nChris retiring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the third lap the first\nthree maintained station, but Rick repassed Jon and Ralph to take 4th<\/sup>\nand these three were enjoying a close battle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of the fourth lap\nSimon crossed the line well ahead of Newton & Ellen to take victory. Mike T\nwas steady in 3rd<\/sup> spot, but behind him the battle continued with\nRalph reclaiming 4th<\/sup> place not far ahead of Jon in 5th<\/sup>\nwith Rick losing three minutes (presumably experiencing that sinking feeling),\nbut still claiming 6th<\/sup> place. Franz retired on this lap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The final order on the water was \u2013 1st<\/sup> Simon; 2nd<\/sup>\nNewton & Ellen; 3rd<\/sup> Mike T; 4th<\/sup> Ralph; 5th<\/sup>\nJon; 6th<\/sup> Rick<\/p>\n\n\n\n The only change on corrected\ntime was Mike leapfrogging Newton & Ellen to take 2nd<\/sup> place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks to Mark and the OOD\nTeam of Ian S, Jeremy (who stepped in to help), Jewels and John W. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was another windy morning with a South wind about 12 -18 mph with stronger gusts coming through. Mark set the first mark as 9, then A, 4, 8, 6, 7 and back through the start. Pursuit Race There were 9 starters this morning and at the end of the first lap Ellen & Newton (RS 200) were just ahead<\/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-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-oh","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","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=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1506,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions\/1506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}