Today there was a SW wind about 10 mph to start with, but gradually increasing to 13 mph during the morning. SOOD Sally set the first beat to 4, then A (going towards 2), 8, 6, 7 and back through the start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There was a bit of excitement before the start when a large dead Carp was found on the small slipway, but no-one claimed ownership!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pursuit Race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n There were 14 starters and at the end of the first lap early starter Chris H (Comet) was still ahead with Dave & Ann (Leader) in 2nd<\/sup> place. Next there was a line astern of seven Lasers led by Mark then James P, Rick, Karen (Radial rig),Jamie M-F, Jon and Richards S. These were followed by a motley collection of boats, Mike A (Radial), Ralph (Laser), Adrian (Rooster), Paul W (Morbic) and Alex & Mike T (470).<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the gun the only change in the first six was that Karen had passed Rick giving a final order of –<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1st<\/sup> Chris H; 2nd<\/sup> Dave & Ann; 3rd<\/sup> Mark; 4th<\/sup> James P; 5th<\/sup> Karen; 6th<\/sup> Rick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Handicap Race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Everyone went for the second race and Karen was first back across the line with Mark in 2nd <\/sup>place, then Rick, James P, Adrian and Jon with these first six covered by just 30 seconds. Chris H came through in 7th<\/sup> place With Richard S only 3 seconds behind him and only 10 seconds ahead of Ralph and Dave & Ann who crossed the line together. These were being chased by Jamie M-F and Alex & Mike T with Mike A and Paul W bringing up the rear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mark took the lead on the second lap and Karen and Rick crossed the line together battling for 2nd<\/sup> place. James was still 4th<\/sup> but Jon and Richard S moved up to 5th<\/sup> and 6th<\/sup> pushing Adrian down to 7th<\/sup>. Ralph gained one place to move to 8th<\/sup> and Jamie and Alex & Mike gained two places to move to 9th<\/sup> and 10th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of the third lap there was no change with the first two apart from Rick suffering a slight nose bleed as a consequence of being so high up the leader board. James P was up to 3rd<\/sup> place and Jon up to 4th<\/sup>, both of them having overtaken Karen. Richard S was steady in 6th<\/sup> spot, but Ralph had gained a place by passing Adrian and Alex & Mike T were up another place to 9th <\/sup>pushing Jamie down to 10th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mark crossed the line to take the victory at the end of the last lap with Rick and James P crossing behind him in 2nd<\/sup> and 3rd<\/sup> places. Karen repassed Jon to take 4th<\/sup> but there were no other changes in position. The final order on the water was \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1st<\/sup> Mark; 2nd<\/sup> Rick; 3rd<\/sup> James P; 4th<\/sup> Karen; 5th<\/sup> Jon; 6th <\/sup>Richard S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Unusually everyone kept the same positions on corrected time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks to Sally & Mike N and Bill C for ensuring the race went smoothly and well sailed Rick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today there was a SW wind about 10 mph to start with, but gradually increasing to 13 mph during the morning. SOOD Sally set the first beat to 4, then A (going towards 2), 8, 6, 7 and back through the start. There was a bit of excitement before the start when a large dead Carp was found on 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-1935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-vd","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935","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=1935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1936,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions\/1936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}