The morning started off very wet and very windy with a SSW wind of 13 \u2013 20 mph and much stronger gusts coming through. There were only a few hardy takers with a fleet of just six for the first race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Peter R set a first beat down to 3 then 2, 5, 7 and back through the start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pursuit Race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ron, first man away in his Mirror, was still ahead at the end of the first lap, but Darren (Laser) was fast approaching. Newton & Sam (RS200) were in 3rd<\/sup> place followed by Chris H (Comet), Alex & Mike T (470) and Ralph (Laser). At the 35 minute gun the order was \u2013 1st<\/sup> Darren; 2nd<\/sup> Newton & Sam; 3rd<\/sup> Alex & Mike T; 4th<\/sup> Ron; 5th<\/sup> Chris H; 6th<\/sup> Ralph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Handicap Race<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Peter shortened the course by using 4 as the first mark rather than No 3, but the wind was still strong and gusty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ralph and Newton & Sam decided to finish early and only four made it to the end of the first lap. Darren led by 3 minutes from Ron with Chris H another 2 minutes further back and Mike T & Alex bringing up the rear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Peter decided two laps was enough in these conditions and the final order on the water was \u2013 1st<\/sup> Darren; 2nd<\/sup> Mike T & Alex; 3rd<\/sup> Ron; 4th<\/sup> Chris H.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On corrected time the order becomes \u2013 1st<\/sup> Darren; 2nd<\/sup> Ron; 3rd<\/sup> Chris H; 4th<\/sup> Mike T & Alessandro<\/p>\n\n\n\n Well done lads for making it to the end!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks to SOOD Peter Rose and the race team of Ferdinando, John Hayes, Rob Harrison, Roland Smith and Tom Adams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The morning started off very wet and very windy with a SSW wind of 13 \u2013 20 mph and much stronger gusts coming through. There were only a few hardy takers with a fleet of just six for the first race. Peter R set a first beat down to 3 then 2, 5, 7 and back through the start. Pursuit<\/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-2003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-wj","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003","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=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2004,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions\/2004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}