{"id":195,"date":"2016-07-29T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2016\/07\/29\/gillette-series-16-27th-july\/"},"modified":"2016-07-29T14:05:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T14:05:00","slug":"gillette-series-16-27th-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2016\/07\/29\/gillette-series-16-27th-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Gillette Series 16 – 27th July"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The forecast was for a WNW wind of about 8 mph, but as usual the wind kept changing direction and strength. For all that it was a very pleasant evening for a sail and Curtis used an Island Start with a first beat to X (between 4 and 5 on the buoy line) then 4p, 9s, 2s,1p and back through the start. Obviously not playing to the gallery in the clubhouse!<\/span><\/div>\n
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There were 17 starters plus 3 juniors.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Seniors <\/span><\/b>(some more than others!)<\/span><\/div>\n
Mark (Laser) was first back through the line followed by the usual suspects of Karen (Laser) and Newton (Solo). Roland & Ryan (National12) came through in 4th<\/sup> place with Simon (Laser) 5th<\/sup> and Monica (Europe) 6th<\/sup>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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By the end of the second lap Karen had taken over the lead and Monica had moved up to 5th<\/sup> and Hadey (Radial) was up to 6th<\/sup> (Here come the girls \u2013 again!). Behind these a terrific mid-fleet battle had developed with Simon, Mike A (Lightning) and the Solos of Chris A, Julian W and  Bob swapping places at every mark. Further back Mike T (Laser) was trying to hold off Dave & Ann (Leader), Paul H (Supernova), Rod (Laser), Sally & Stuart (Leader) and Richard H (Laser).<\/span><\/div>\n
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On the third lap the leaders remained in the same positions, but Hadey had moved up another place to 5th<\/sup> and Julian W had gained four places to 6th<\/sup>. Bob and Rod had also gained one place and Richard H two places.<\/span><\/div>\n
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By the end of the fourth lap Hadey had moved up again to take 4th<\/sup> spot and Bob had gained three places to move up to 7th<\/sup>. Richard H had gained another two places and Paul H had passed Sally & Stuart and these and Mike T received the finish gun at the end of the lap.<\/span><\/div>\n
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At the end of the fifth and final lap the only change in the leading nine boats was Roland & Ryan regaining 4th<\/sup> place from Hadey. Chris A had passed Monica to take 10th<\/sup> and the only other mover was Rod who had gained another two places.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The final positions on the water were \u2013 1st<\/sup> Karen; 2nd<\/sup> Newton; 3rd<\/sup> Mark; 4th<\/sup> Roland & Ryan; 5th<\/sup> Hadey; 6th<\/sup> Julian W<\/span><\/div>\n
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On handicap Newton will snatch victory from Karen with Mike A moving up to 4th<\/sup> with Hadey and Julian keeping 5th<\/sup> and 6th<\/sup> places.<\/span><\/div>\n
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This means that in the Gillette Series, Newton and Karen currently lead with exactly the same number of points but Karen’s first discard is a 2nd<\/sup> place whereas Newton has a 3rd<\/sup>.    <\/span><\/div>\n
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Juniors<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
At the end of the first lap Joe (Topper) led Edward (Topper) with Jemima (Oppie) in 3rd<\/sup> place and these positions were maintained through the whole of the race.<\/span><\/div>\n
Jemima received the gun after two laps and Joe and Edward after four laps.<\/span><\/div>\n
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In the Junior and Youth Series Jemima actually leads the table (on discard) \u2013 more girl power at RSC<\/span><\/div>\n

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Thanks to Curtis and the OOD Team of Hugh, Ian S, Andy B and Chris M.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The forecast was for a WNW wind of about 8 mph, but as usual the wind kept changing direction and strength. For all that it was a very pleasant evening for a sail and Curtis used an Island Start with a first beat to X (between 4 and 5 on the buoy line) then 4p, 9s, 2s,1p and back through<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-39","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","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=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}