Another windy Sunday with a SW wind around 15 mph\nwith the usual gusts. Newton set a long first beat to 3 then A (about where 2\nshould be, but 2 had drifted off!), 9, 5, 8, 6,7 and back through the start. It\nwas good to see Hadey, Hugh and Will back out on the water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There\nwould have been 15 starters, but Julian B\nwent out to the start, but the rudder stock on his D-Zero broke before the race\nstarted. The remaining 14 got away without further incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Simon B (Blaze) was first back across the line\nfollowed two minutes later by Karen sailing a Radial rig, but she was only just\nahead of Jon in a (Laser). Ten seconds later a quartet of tightly bunched\nLasers came through with Hugh leading Adrian, Mike T and Ken (using a Radial\nrig). Hadey (4.7) crossed in 8th<\/sup> place with the first double -hander\nof Dave & Ann (Leader) about a minute further back in 9th<\/sup>, but\nthey were only four seconds in front of Dean & Nick (Vago). Rhys (4.7) was\nin 11th<\/sup> place with Mike C & Sally (Leader) bearing down on him. Then\nthere was a gap of 40 seconds before Will (Radial) and Jeremy (Laser) crossed\nthe line. <\/p>\n\n\n\n By the end of the second lap Mike T had moved up four places to 2nd<\/sup> and Jon had passed Karen to move to 3rd<\/sup> place. \u00a0Karen was down to 4th<\/sup> and Hugh and Adrian down to 5th<\/sup> and 6th<\/sup>. Hadey gained a place to move to 7th<\/sup> as Ken, who was just ahead of her, retired. Mike C & Sally made up two places to move to 9th<\/sup> just behind Dave & Ann, so the battle of the leaders was now on. Will also gained two places by passing Rhys and Dean & Nick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of the third and last lap Simon\ncrossed the line in first place nearly two minutes ahead of Jon, who had got\npast Mike to take 2nd<\/sup> place. The only other mover was Jeremy who gained a\nplace when Rhys retired with a gear failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The final order on the water was \u2013 1st<\/sup>\nSimon; 2nd<\/sup> Jon; 3rd<\/sup> Mike T; 4th<\/sup> Karen; 5th<\/sup>\nHugh; 6th<\/sup> Adrian<\/p>\n\n\n\n On corrected time the order becomes \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1st<\/sup> Karen; 2nd<\/sup> Hadey; 3rd<\/sup>\nJon; 4th<\/sup> Simon; 5th<\/sup> Mike T; 6th<\/sup> Hugh<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks to Newton and the OOD Team of Sam (the\nonly one on the rota!) and special thanks to Ellen, Emily, Andrew & Thomas\nM and Roland L who stepped up to volunteer and make the race possible. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Another windy Sunday with a SW wind around 15 mph with the usual gusts. Newton set a long first beat to 3 then A (about where 2 should be, but 2 had drifted off!), 9, 5, 8, 6,7 and back through the start. It was good to see Hadey, Hugh and Will back out on the water. There would have<\/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-1545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-oV","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545","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=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1546,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions\/1546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}