At last, we had a SW wind which made life a bit easier for the race team. Darren se the first beat to A (down near Tektona) then 9, 5 and B (just behind the start line heading towards7).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pursuit Race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 14 starters this morning and a light wind varying from 5 to 10 mph. It was good to see Roland S back on the water in his newly acquired Solo and to see that Rick & Lottie were persevering with their RS200.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of the first lap Mike C (Solo) was leading from Chris H (Comet) being chased by Ralph (Laser) and Emily (4.7) was hanging in there in 4th<\/sup> place. Unusually for the Pursuit race there were no dramatic changes in position throughout the rest of the race apart from Chris H heading towards the back of the fleet (which is also unusual!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the gun the final positions were \u2013 1st<\/sup> Mike C – Solo; 2nd<\/sup> Ralph – Laser; 3rd<\/sup> Newton & Sam \u2013 RS200; 4th<\/sup> Dave & Ann – Leader; 5th<\/sup> Mark – Laser; 6th<\/sup> Karen – Radial<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another win for Mike C!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Handicap Race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This turned out to be a five lapper and Newton & Sam (RS200) were first back across the line closely followed by Karen (Radial), Dave & Ann (Leader) and Chris H (Comet). Ralph (Laser) was through 5th<\/sup> place with Mike C (Solo) 6th<\/sup> and then the Lasers of Mike T and Chris K 7th<\/sup> and 8th<\/sup> just 10 seconds ahead of Roland S (Solo). Rick & Lottie were not far behind Roland and then Mike A (Lightning), Aileen (Comet) and Emily (4.7) were bringing up the rear of the fleet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the second lap there was no change in the leading two, but Mike C had moved up to 3rd<\/sup> and Ralph up to 4th<\/sup> with no other movers. There were only two changes in position on the third lap with Dave & Ann repassing Ralph for 4th<\/sup> place and Mike A getting past Rick & Lottie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By the end of the fourth lap Mike C had moved up another place to 2nd<\/sup> by passing Karen. Ralph had repassed Dave & Ann in their continuing battle for 4th<\/sup> place and Mike T passed Chris H to move up to 6th<\/sup> spot. Emily received the gun at the end of this lap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the last lap Newton & Sam retained their lead with Mike C still in 2nd<\/sup> place, but Ralph had got past Karen to cross the line in 3rd<\/sup> place and Dave & Ann were abreast of Karen in equal 4th<\/sup> place . Further back Roland S pipped Chris K for 8th<\/sup> place and Aileen had caught and passed Rick & Lottie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The final order on the water was \u2013 1st<\/sup> Newton & Sam; 2nd<\/sup> Mike C; 3rd<\/sup> Ralph; 4th<\/sup> Karen and Dave & Ann; 6th<\/sup> Mike T.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On corrected time the order changes to 1st<\/sup> Chris H; 2nd<\/sup> Mike C; 3rd<\/sup> Karen; 4th<\/sup> Dave & Ann; 5th<\/sup> Newton & Sam; 6th<\/sup> Ralph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks to SOOD Darren and the race team of Issy, Sally, Patrick C and Tom A. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At last, we had a SW wind which made life a bit easier for the race team. Darren se the first beat to A (down near Tektona) then 9, 5 and B (just behind the start line heading towards7). Pursuit Race 14 starters this morning and a light wind varying from 5 to 10 mph. It was good to see<\/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-1858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-tY","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858","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=1858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1859,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions\/1859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}