It was an overcast morning with a light wind and a few stronger gusts coming through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pursuit Race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n There were 14 starters and at the end of a lap the early starters, Ron Laser (Mirror), Chris H (Comet) and Dave & Ann (Leader) were still ahead of the chasers led by James (Laser), Newton & Sam (RS200) and Mark (Laser).<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the 35 minute gun the order was -1st<\/sup> Newton & Sam; 2nd<\/sup> James; 3rd<\/sup> Chris H; 4th<\/sup> Mark; 5th<\/sup> Dave & Ann; 6th<\/sup> Ron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Handicap Race<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n First back across the line was Chris H (Comet) followed by the Lasers of James and Mark. Chris K in another Laser and Newton & Sam (RS200) crossed the line together competing for 4th<\/sup> place and behind them Dave & Ann (Leader and Rick (Laser) also crossed together fighting for 6th<\/sup> place. Mike C (Solo) was next along in 8th<\/sup> spot, but he was a minute ahead of Ron (Mirror), who in turn was a minute ahead of Alistair (Laser). The there was a gap back to Hattie (one of our newer members and a welcome addition to the racing fleet) in her Laser and she was well ahead of one of our old salts Paul W in his Morbic12 followed by another new recruit to the racing fleet Chris in a Mirror (which should please Ron).<\/p>\n\n\n\n By the end of the second lap Newton & Sam had taken the lead with James and Mark still in 2nd<\/sup> and 3rd<\/sup> places. Dave & Ann had prevailed over Rick to consolidate 6th<\/sup> and Mike C had also passed Rick to move up to 7th<\/sup>. In the battle at the back Chris had managed to catch and pass Paul and they along with Hattie ahead of them received the gun at the end of the lap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Newton & Sam finished the last lap in 1st<\/sup> with James still 2nd<\/sup>, but Chris K and Dave & Ann just pipped Mark across the line pushing him down to 5th<\/sup>. Mike C moved up a place to 6th<\/sup> by passing Chris H and Rick, Ron and Alistair brought up the rear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On corrected time the order changes to \u2013 1st<\/sup> Ron; 2nd<\/sup> Chris H; 3rd<\/sup> Newton & Sam; 4th<\/sup> Dave & Ann; 5th<\/sup> James; 6th<\/sup> Mike C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This just goes to show that whatever class of boat you sail, be it Mirror, Comet, Leader, Solo, RS200 or the ubiquitous Laser, you are in with a chance! (Well some of you are – not sure about the rest of us)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks to SOOD Darren and the small race team of Phoebe (star footballer) and Ralph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was an overcast morning with a light wind and a few stronger gusts coming through. Pursuit Race There were 14 starters and at the end of a lap the early starters, Ron Laser (Mirror), Chris H (Comet) and Dave & Ann (Leader) were still ahead of the chasers led by James (Laser), Newton & Sam (RS200) and Mark (Laser).<\/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-1952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-vu","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952","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=1952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1953,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions\/1953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}