It was a sunny morning with a light WSW wind of around\n5-7 mph. Adrian set the first mark as 4 then 9, 6, 7 and back through the start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pursuit Race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Thirteen starters and by the end of the first lap Mike T (Laser) had caught early starter Chris H (Comet), who was still in 2nd<\/sup> place, but in danger of being passed by Jon (Laser).\u00a0 Julian W (Solo) came through in 4th<\/sup> place chased by Peter R (Enterprise) followed by James (Laser), Dean & Nick (Vago) and Sam & Newton (RS 200). Then came the battle of the Leaders with Mike C & Emily ahead of Dave & Ann, then Alistair S (Laser) with Rhys (4.7) and Nick M (Radial) bringing up the rear of the fleet. At the gun the final positions were \u2013 1st<\/sup> Mike T; 2nd<\/sup> Jon; 3rd<\/sup>\nChris H; 4th<\/sup> Peter R; 5th<\/sup> Julian W; 6th<\/sup> James <\/p>\n\n\n\n Handicap Race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Julian and Alistair decided\nto sit this one out and with a slight drop and a change in the wind direction Adrian\nintroduced a box course using A, 9, 5, and B. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Newton switched roles with\nSam for the second race and they led across the line at the end of the first\nlap clear of Mike T in 2nd<\/sup> place and Peter R in 3rd<\/sup>. Chris\nH and Jon crossed the line together battling for 4th<\/sup> position with\nJames not far behind them. By this time the fleet had split into three groups\nand the second group was led by Dean & Nick who were just ahead of Dave\n& Ann followed by Mike C & Emily. About four minutes later along came\nRhys and Nick M who were enjoying their own race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of the second lap\nthere was no change with the two leaders, but James had gained three places to\nmove up to 3rd <\/sup>and Jon was up one to 4th<\/sup>. Dave & Ann\nhad passed Dean & Nick, but they were still very close to one another and\nthere was no change in the order behind them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The only change in position\non the third lap was Dean & Nick repassing Dave & Ann. Rhys and Nick M\nreceived the gun at the end of the lap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The fourth lap was the last\nand Newton & Sam crossed the line in 1st<\/sup> place some five minutes\nahead of Mike T in 2nd<\/sup>. James\nretained his 3rd<\/sup> place, but Peter R, Dean & Nick and Dave &\nAnn all passed Jon and Chris to take 4th<\/sup>, 5th<\/sup> and 6th<\/sup>\nplaces respectively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The final order on the water\nwas \u2013 1st<\/sup> Newton & Sam; 2nd<\/sup> Mike t; 3rd<\/sup>\nJames; 4th<\/sup> Peter R; 5th<\/sup> Dean & Nick; 6th<\/sup>\nDave & Ann.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On corrected time the order changes to – 1st<\/sup> Newton &\nSam; 2nd<\/sup> Chris H; 3rd<\/sup> Mike T; 4th<\/sup> Dave &\nAnn; 5th<\/sup> James; 6th<\/sup> Peter R<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks to Adrian and the OOD\nTeam of Linda and John S, Gareth D and Ron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was a sunny morning with a light WSW wind of around 5-7 mph. Adrian set the first mark as 4 then 9, 6, 7 and back through the start. Pursuit Race Thirteen starters and by the end of the first lap Mike T (Laser) had caught early starter Chris H (Comet), who was still in 2nd place, but in<\/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-1511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-on","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511","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=1511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions\/1512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}