It was a nice sunny evening for the first race of the 2021 Gillette Series with a SW wind varying from 5 to 10 mph. Chris H set a fist beat down to 4 then 2, 5, 7 and back through the start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A good turn out tonight with 23 boats taking part and Karen (Laser) led back across the line followed closely by Mike T in another Laser. These two maintained their positions for all three laps of the race with Mike T keeping Karen honest but never quite managing to get past her. On the first lap Mark (Laser) was in 3rd<\/sup> place, but this position was taken by Emily & Newton (RS200) from the second lap onwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Throughout the race there was a close battle for the next five positions between Mark, Darren, Jamie, Ralph and Rick all in Lasers and Dave & Ann in their Leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Behind these there was another group changing positions, initially led by Dean & Nick (Vago) with Richard H and John H both in Lasers and Mike C (Solo) getting past them by the end of the race with Will in a Radial chasing them all the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There was a gap in the fleet back to Paul H and Nigel in Lasers and Sally in her Comet, but they were having a good tussle for 15th<\/sup> place. Behind them Rich F (Comet Duo), Ron (Mirror), Nick H (Laser), Aileen (Comet) and Chris & Carol (Sport 14) were enjoying a race of their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The final order on the water was \u2013 1st<\/sup> Karen; 2nd<\/sup> Mike T; 3rd<\/sup> Emily & Newton; 4th<\/sup> Darren; 5th<\/sup> Mark; 6th<\/sup> Dave & Ann.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On corrected time the only change in position is Dave & Ann leapfrogging Mark to take 5th<\/sup> place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks to SOOD Chris H and the race team of Monica, Sam W and especially the Sue Js who stepped up to help out on the night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was a nice sunny evening for the first race of the 2021 Gillette Series with a SW wind varying from 5 to 10 mph. Chris H set a fist beat down to 4 then 2, 5, 7 and back through the start. A good turn out tonight with 23 boats taking part and Karen (Laser) led back across the<\/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-1862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-u2","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862","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=1862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1863,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions\/1863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}