{"id":204,"date":"2016-07-07T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2016\/07\/07\/gillette-series-13-6th-july-2016\/"},"modified":"2016-07-07T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T09:45:00","slug":"gillette-series-13-6th-july-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2016\/07\/07\/gillette-series-13-6th-july-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Gillette Series 13 &#8211; 6th July 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:16px\">\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">There was a light SW wind, about 6 mph, and Peter  R set the first beat to 4, then 9p, 5s, 6s, 7s, and back through the start.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">There were 14 starters and unfortunately the wind  dropped just before the start gun, which made it a struggle to cross the line.  Eventually everyone got under way and Karen (Laser) was first back through the start  with a clear lead from Steve S (Solo) with Hugh (Laser) 3<sup>rd<\/sup>, Newton  (Solo) 4<sup>th<\/sup>, Peter S (Byte II) 5<sup>th<\/sup> and Ellen &amp; Luke  (RS200) 6<sup>th<\/sup>. &nbsp;Curtis (Laser) came  through next in 7<sup>th<\/sup> place just ahead of Mike A (Lightning), who was  followed by Paul H (Supernova), Sally &amp; Stuart (Leader) and Mark B  (Enterprise). Then bringing up the rear were the three Lasers of Rick, Richard  H and Mike T.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Steve S retired at the end of the first lap, but not  sure of the reason.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">At the end of the second and final lap Karen was  still clear ahead but Ellen &amp; Luke had gained four places to move up to 2<sup>nd<\/sup>  place with Newton moving up to 3<sup>rd<\/sup>. Hugh was now 4<sup>th<\/sup> and  Mark B had moved up five places to 6<sup>th<\/sup>. Another five place mover was  Richard H who was up to 8<sup>th<\/sup>, but everyone else either maintained  position or lost places.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">The final positions on the water were \u2013 <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">1<sup>st<\/sup> Karen; 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Ellen &amp;  Luke; 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Newton; 4<sup>th<\/sup> Hugh; 5<sup>th<\/sup> Peter S; 6<sup>th<\/sup>  Mark B.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">On handicap there should be quite a few changes  with Newton taking 1<sup>st<\/sup> from Karen with Ellen &amp; Luke down to 3<sup>rd,  <\/sup>Peter S up to 4<sup>th <\/sup>, Mike A up to 5<sup>th<\/sup> and Hugh 6<sup>th<\/sup>.  &nbsp;<sup>&nbsp;<\/sup>. <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt\"><span>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt\"><span>Thanks to Peter R and the OOD Team of Carol &amp;  Chris M, Monica and Paul R.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>                                                    <\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt\" dir=\"ltr\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a light SW wind, about 6 mph, and Peter R set the first beat to 4, then 9p, 5s, 6s, 7s, and back through the start. &nbsp; There were 14 starters and unfortunately the wind dropped just before the start gun, which made it a struggle to cross the line. Eventually everyone got under way and Karen (Laser)<\/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-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-3i","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","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=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}