Mark was SOOD today with the help of Mike A and Sally & Mike N manning the safety boat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was a very light wind, which unfortunately kept veering from NNE to NNW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After several pre-race course changes Mark eventually set a start line on an East-West axis (near to 5) with the first mark as B (towards 6) then 9 and back through the start. Got it? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pursuit Race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 10 starters this morning and Chris H Comet was well ahead at the end of the first lap with Emily 4.7 in 2nd<\/sup> place, Dave & Ann Leader 3rd<\/sup>, Aileen in another Comet 4th<\/sup>. The first Laser through was Richard S followed by Mike T, Ralph, and Darren, then came Chris and Hilary in their Wanderer with Paul Waterman bringing up the rear in the gaff rigged Morbic12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the gun, the Laser of Mike T was well ahead Ralph, but Chris H had hung onto 3rd<\/sup> place with Darren in 4th<\/sup>, Dave & Ann Leader 5th<\/sup> and Richard S 6th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Handicap Race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Although the wind was light the course was short, so we had a three-lap race (well for about half the fleet!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of the first lap Mike T was back through the line well clear of Ralph and Richard S in 2nd<\/sup> and 3rd<\/sup> places. Dave & Ann were next in 4th<\/sup> place just ahead of Darren, then there was a gap back to Chris H in 6th<\/sup> and Chris & Hillary in 7th<\/sup>. Next across the line were Aileen and Emily who were enjoying a really close battle and then finally Paul who was having trouble getting his Morbic12 to point (well hardly at all, but the gaff rig looked very picturesque).<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the second lap Mike increased his lead over the two chasing Lasers and Darren and Chris had overtaken Dave & Ann to move up to 4th <\/sup>and 5th<\/sup> respectively, with Chris & Hilary 7th<\/sup> and receiving the gun as they crossed the line. Behind them Emily just pipped Aileen across the line as they also received the finish gun along with Paul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The third lap saw Mike T cross the line some four minutes ahead of Ralph in 2nd<\/sup> place with Darren gaining another place to finish 3rd<\/sup> with Richard 4th<\/sup>. Chris came across in 5th<\/sup> place with Dave & Ann finishing in 6th<\/sup> place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On corrected time the order becomes \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1st<\/sup> Mike; 2nd<\/sup> Chris H; 3rd<\/sup> Ralph; 4th<\/sup> Darren; 5th<\/sup> Richard; 6th<\/sup> Dave & Ann<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks to Mark, Sally & Mike N and Mike A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mark was SOOD today with the help of Mike A and Sally & Mike N manning the safety boat. It was a very light wind, which unfortunately kept veering from NNE to NNW. After several pre-race course changes Mark eventually set a start line on an East-West axis (near to 5) with the first mark as B (towards 6) then<\/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-1823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-tp","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823","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=1823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1824,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions\/1824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}