With a tricky wind varying between 5 and 12 mph, Hadey set a course of A, 5, 9, 4, 2 and back through the start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was quite a busy start line with 22 boats lining up (well loosely) for the gun. The pattern for the race was established at the end of the first lap when Newton & Ainhoa (RS200) led across the line followed by Ellen (Laser) and Mark (Laser) and these three maintained those positions for all three laps. There was a good battle for the next six places between Nigel (Laser), Steve & Rick (RS200), Roland S (Solo), Dave & Ann (Leader), Mike T (Laser) and Dean & Nick (Vago). Joe (Laser) was right behind Dean & Nick, but he retired on the second lap leaving Jamie and Paul H in Lasers and Mike C (Solo) to do the chasing. Strangely Ralph was languishing towards the back of the fleet when he is usually in the leading group and battling with Jeremy (Laser) and Sally (Comet).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dairmuid (Laser) retired on the first lap and Casten (Laser), Paul W (Morbic), Hattie (Laser) and Rich F (Comet Duo) all received the gun at the end of two laps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the end of the last lap Dave & Ann had triumphed in the fight for 4th<\/sup> place with Nigel 5th<\/sup> and Mike T up to 6th<\/sup>, which would normally be down for him! In the battle further back Paul H and Mike C had gained the advantage both of them managing to get past Dean & Nick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The final order on the water was \u2013 1st<\/sup> Newton & Ainhoa; 2nd<\/sup> Ellen; 3rd<\/sup> Mark; 4th<\/sup> Dave & Ann; 5th<\/sup> Nigel; 6th<\/sup> Mike T <\/p>\n\n\n\n On corrected time the only change is Dave & Ann leapfrogging Mark to take 3rd<\/sup> spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks to SOOD Hadey and the race team of Monica, Angus and Chris H.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With a tricky wind varying between 5 and 12 mph, Hadey set a course of A, 5, 9, 4, 2 and back through the start. It was quite a busy start line with 22 boats lining up (well loosely) for the gun. The pattern for the race was established at the end of the first lap when Newton & Ainhoa<\/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-1946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-vo","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946","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=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1947,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions\/1947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}