The forecast was for a NE wind, but it turned out to be more or less a West wind of about 6 mph, but this dropped as the evening progressed. Ralph set the first beat to 5 then B (towards Tektona), A (up near the buoy line halfway between 4 and 5), C (near 8) and back through the start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There were 17 starters and the boats starting on the Port end of the line made the right call and led round the first mark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Karen and Mark (Lasers) were first back across the line with Emily & Newton (RS2000) just behind them in 3rd<\/sup> place. The Lasers of Mike T and Jess were next along followed by Chris H (Comet) and the two Solos of Roland S and Mike C. Dave & Ann (Leader) crossed in 9th<\/sup> place with Chris K (Laser) 10 seconds further back and Ron (Mirror) another minute behind him. Aileen (Comet) came along in 12th<\/sup> followed by Mike A (Lightning) and Richard H (Laser). Then there was a gap back to Paul H(Laser), Rick & Steve S (RS200) and Sally (Comet).<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of the second lap there was no change in the leading two, but Mike T had moved up to 3rd<\/sup> passing Emily & Newton and Chris H moved up to 5th<\/sup> by passing Jess. In the battle of the Solos Mike C had managed to get past Roland to move up to 6th<\/sup>. Mike A moved up three places and Richard H was up two. Rick & Steve and Sally moved up a place by passing Paul. By this time, the wind was starting to drop and Rick & Steve, Sally and Paul H all received the gun at the end of the lap, which turned out to be a stroke of luck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the last lap Karen managed to get past Mark to take 1st<\/sup> place and there was no change in the next three positions, but both Mike C and Roland passed Jess to take 6th<\/sup> and 7th<\/sup> places. Dave & Ann were beginning to suffer from the drop in wind strength and finished in a solitary 9th<\/sup>. However, this was nothing compared to the fate of the boats behind them. Aileen retired earlier in the lap, but Mike A, Ron, Chris K and Richard H found themselves virtually becalmed. They struggled on to reach the line and Richard H with the end in sight could not stand it any longer and retired as did Ron when he slipped back from Chris and Mike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The final order on the water was \u2013 1st<\/sup> Karen; 2nd<\/sup> Mark; 3rd<\/sup> Mike T; 4th<\/sup> Emily & Newton; 5th<\/sup> Chris H; 6th<\/sup> Mike C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On corrected time this changes to \u2013 1st<\/sup> Karen; 2nd<\/sup> Mark; 3rd<\/sup> Chris H; 4th<\/sup> Mike T; 5th<\/sup> Emily & Newton; 6th<\/sup> Mike C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks to SOOD Ralph and the race team of Phoebe & Sam S, Roland L, Nick H and Nigel. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The forecast was for a NE wind, but it turned out to be more or less a West wind of about 6 mph, but this dropped as the evening progressed. Ralph set the first beat to 5 then B (towards Tektona), A (up near the buoy line halfway between 4 and 5), C (near 8) 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-1880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-uk","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880","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=1880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1881,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions\/1881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}