Not a lot of wind this morning with a forecast of 5 mph from the WNW, but actually varying in strength and direction from 2 \u2013 5 and WSW to NW! Mike A set a short course with a standard flagpole start then 5, A (in the middle of the lake going towards 9), 8, B (near the bank behind the middle of the start line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pursuit Race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Only 6 starters this morning and at the end of the first lap Ron (Mirror) led followed by Chris H (Comet). Roland S (Solo) crossed in 3rd<\/sup> place about five minutes ahead of Dave & Ann (Leader) in 4th<\/sup>, who were nearly ten minutes ahead of Mark (Laser) and Newton & Sam (RS200). In the light wind it obviously paid to be an early starter and at the 35 minute gun the only change in order was Chris passing Ron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Handicap Race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mike shortened the course for the second race by taking 8 out and moving A a little further down the lake and William B joined the fleet in his Laser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Roland was first back across the line nearly one minute ahead of Chris in 2nd<\/sup> place with Mark 3rd<\/sup>and Newton & Sam not far behind him. The rest of the fleet was evenly spaced with Dave & Ann in 5th<\/sup> place followed by Ron and William.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With the wind threatening to disappear, Mike shortened the course even further by moving the finish line up to A!<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the finish Chris had taken the lead from Roland and Newton & Sam just snatched 3rd<\/sup> place from Mark on the line. Behind them there was no change in order, but William decided that he had enough excitement and retired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The order on the water was \u2013 1st<\/sup> Chris; 2nd<\/sup> Roland; 3rd<\/sup> Newton & Sam; 4th<\/sup> Mark; 5th<\/sup> Dave & Ann; 6th<\/sup> Ron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On corrected time this changes to \u2013 1st<\/sup> Chris; 2nd<\/sup> Roland; 3rd<\/sup> Ron; 4th<\/sup> Mark; 5th<\/sup> Newton & Sam; 6th<\/sup> Dave & Ann.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks to Mike A and the race team Alex, Emily and Gareth D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Not a lot of wind this morning with a forecast of 5 mph from the WNW, but actually varying in strength and direction from 2 \u2013 5 and WSW to NW! Mike A set a short course with a standard flagpole start then 5, A (in the middle of the lake going towards 9), 8, B (near the bank behind<\/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-1919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-uX","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919","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=1919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1920,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions\/1920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}