There was a 10 mph WSW wind and Hadey set the first beat as 5, then 9, 4, 2, A (behind the start line which was parallel to the shore) and through the start.A new boat appeared this morning, a Goat Island Skiff with a traditional gaff rig which originated in Australia. Owner Steve had built it himself from a set of plans with a little collaboration with our other gaff rig sailor, Paul W. Also we had four new racers joining the fleet Carston and Dairmaid & his two little ones. Welcome to you all. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pursuit Race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n There were 12 starters and at the end of the lap the early starters Ron (Mirror), Chris H (Comet) and Dave & Ann (Leader) were still leading the fleet with Newton & Ainhoa (RS200) in 4th<\/sup> place and Mike A (Lightning) in 5th<\/sup>. Then there were the Lasers of Mark, James P and Jamie being chased by Adrian (Rooster) who had just overtaken the Laser of Dairmaid & daughter (sorry you will have to tell me your name). Rick & Lottie (RS200) and Carston (Radial) were battling to avoid the lanterne rouge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the gun the final order was \u2013 1st<\/sup> Newton & Ainhoa: 2nd<\/sup> Chris H; 3rd<\/sup> Mark; 4th<\/sup> Dave & Ann; 5th<\/sup> James P; 6th<\/sup> Dairmaid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Handicap Race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Hadey and Ralph tweaked the course for the second race inserting B as the first mark (halfway between 5 and 6) then 5, 1 (instead of 9) 4, 2, A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mark was first back across the line followed 30 seconds later by Newton & Ainhoa, then James in 3rd<\/sup> place. Dairmaid & son were through in 4th<\/sup> place just ahead of Dave & Ann, who were 20 seconds ahead of Adrian and Jamie. Chris H crossed in 8th<\/sup> place followed by Mike A and then there was a gap before Ron and Rick & Lottie came through. Carston retired on this lap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the second lap there was no change in the order of the first three, but Adrian was up two places to 4th<\/sup>. Further back Jamie moved up to 6th<\/sup> by passing Dave & Ann and Rick & Lottie passed Ron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of the third and last lap the first four remained the same, but Jamie was up another place to finish 5th<\/sup> by passing Dairmaid. There were no other movers and the order on the water was \u2013 1st<\/sup> Mark; 2nd <\/sup>Newton & Ainhoa; 3rd<\/sup> James P; 4th<\/sup> Adrian; 5th<\/sup> Jamie; 6th<\/sup> Dairmaid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On corrected time some of the slower handicap boats appear and the order becomes \u2013 1st<\/sup> Mark; 2nd<\/sup> Newton & Ainhoa; 3rd<\/sup> James; 4th<\/sup> Chris H; 5th<\/sup> Ron; 6th<\/sup> Dave & Ann.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks to SOOD Hadey and the race team of Ralph and Brian M (who volunteered to help as we were struggling for numbers). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There was a 10 mph WSW wind and Hadey set the first beat as 5, then 9, 4, 2, A (behind the start line which was parallel to the shore) and through the start.A new boat appeared this morning, a Goat Island Skiff with a traditional gaff rig which originated in Australia. Owner Steve had built it himself from a<\/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-1942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-vk","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942","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=1942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1943,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions\/1943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}