{"id":1527,"date":"2019-11-24T17:37:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T17:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2019-11-24T17:37:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T17:37:26","slug":"cobley-series-10-24th-november-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2019\/11\/24\/cobley-series-10-24th-november-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Cobley Series 10 &#8211; 24th November 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was slightly misty this morning and at the start\nof the first race the promised wind of a 5 mph SSW had not arrived! Mike A set\na box course with the first mark as A (in line with 5, but further to the middle\nof the lake than 8), then 5, 6, 7 and back through the start.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Pursuit Race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In spite of the lack of wind\nthere were 8 starters, but some of them did not make the line to start at their\nallotted time (particularly Ron!) It was slow going and only three boats actually\nmade the end of the first lap, although the wind did improve slightly during\nthe race. At the gun the positions were \u2013 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1<sup>st<\/sup> Mike T (Laser);\n2<sup>nd<\/sup> Chris H (Comet), who was nearly caught by 3<sup>rd<\/sup> place James\n(Laser); 4<sup>th<\/sup> Adrian (Vago s\/h); 5<sup>th<\/sup> Ron; 6<sup>th<\/sup>\nDave &amp; Ann (Leader) who just got their nose in front of 7<sup>th<\/sup>\nplace &nbsp;Rhys (4.7); 8<sup>th<\/sup> Rick\n(Laser). &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Handicap Race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Encouraged by the slight\nincrease in wind everyone started the second race and James was first back\nacross the line not far ahead of Mike. Dave &amp; Ann came through in 3<sup>rd<\/sup>\nplace&nbsp; about a minute ahead of Chris H in\n4<sup>th<\/sup>, who in turn was a minute ahead of Adrian in 5<sup>th<\/sup>.\nThen another minute elapsed before Ron crossed the line in 6<sup>th<\/sup> place\nwith quite a gap back to Rhys and Rick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the second lap James managed\nto draw away slightly from Mike who was caught by Chris at the penultimate mark\nand Chris managed to keep the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> place to the line. Adrian passed\nDave &amp; Ann to take 4<sup>th<\/sup> across the line and Ron crossed a minute\nlater in 6<sup>th<\/sup> place. Rhys decided to retire, but Rick kept going and\nearned himself a 7<sup>th<\/sup> place finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The order on the water was \u2013  1<sup>st<\/sup> James; 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Chris; 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Mike; 4<sup>th<\/sup> Adrian; 5<sup>th<\/sup> Dave &amp; Ann; 6<sup>th<\/sup> Ron; 7<sup>th<\/sup> Rick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On corrected time this\nbecomes \u2013 1<sup>st<\/sup> Ron; 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Chris; 3<sup>rd<\/sup> James; 4<sup>th<\/sup>\nMike; 5<sup>th<\/sup> Dave &amp; Ann; 6<sup>th<\/sup> Adrian; 7<sup>th<\/sup>\nRick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks to Mike A and the OOD\nTeam of Bill J, Colin H, Gareth E, Jewels and Julian W.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was slightly misty this morning and at the start of the first race the promised wind of a 5 mph SSW had not arrived! Mike A set a box course with the first mark as A (in line with 5, but further to the middle of the lake than 8), then 5, 6, 7 and back through the start.<\/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-1527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-oD","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527","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=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1528,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions\/1528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}