With a SW wind about 10 mph, Ralph set the first beat down to 4, then A (going towards 2), 9, 5, 6, 7 and back through the start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pursuit Race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n There were 15 starters and at the end of a lap the order was still pretty well the order that they had started, with the Comets of Aileen and Chris H followed by the Solos of Roland S and Mike C with Karen\/Radial in 5th<\/sup> place and the first Laser of Mike T in 6th<\/sup>. At the gun the order was -1st<\/sup> Chris H; 2nd<\/sup> Aileen; 3rd<\/sup> Mike C; 4th<\/sup> Roland; 5th<\/sup> Paul R (who was last to get away in his Aero); 6th<\/sup> Karen<\/p>\n\n\n\n Handicap Race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mark opted out of this one, so the fleet was now down to 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n First back across the line was Paul\/Aero and he led for all three laps of the race. The boats behind Paul were very close at the end of the first lap with Roland S in 2nd<\/sup> place leading James P\/Laser, Newton & Sam\/RS200, Darren\/Laser and Mike T\/Laser , all covered by 45 seconds. Karen\/Radial crossed in 7th<\/sup> place just one second ahead of Mike C\/Solo with Chris H\/Comet, Rick\/Laser and Dave & Ann\/Leader not far behind them. Jon\/Laser came through 30 seconds later in 12th<\/sup> place, surprising for him as he is usually up towards the front. Also surprising was Aileen\/Comet back in 13th<\/sup> after her stellar second place in the first race! At the back Paul W was sailing merrily along in his Morbic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By the end of the second lap, Paul had increased his lead at the front and Darren had moved up three places to 2nd<\/sup> with James still in 3rd <\/sup>with Roland down to 4th<\/sup>. Newton & Sam had a bit of a fracas at No 4 and had to do turns resulting in Mike T, Mike C and Chris H all getting past them. Further back Jon gained two places getting past Dave & Ann and Rick. Paul W received the gun at the end of his second lap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paul finished in 1st<\/sup> place and James managed to pip Darren for 2nd<\/sup> spot. There was a really tight battle for 4th<\/sup> place with Roland crossing just one second ahead of Mike T. Jon had a good last lap moving up four places to 6th<\/sup> and Dave & Ann gained a place by passing Karen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The order on the water was \u2013 1st<\/sup> Paul; 2nd<\/sup> James P; 3rd<\/sup> Darren; 4th<\/sup> Roland; 5th<\/sup> Mike T; 6th<\/sup> Jon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On corrected time this changes to \u2013 1st<\/sup> Chris H; 2nd<\/sup> Roland; 3rd<\/sup> James P; Equal 4th<\/sup> Paul and Darren; 6th<\/sup> Mike T<\/p>\n\n\n\n Well done to Chris H with another double in his Comet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks to SOOD Ralph and the team of Alessandro, Bea, Chris Knt, Gareth E, Hadey and Jewels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With a SW wind about 10 mph, Ralph set the first beat down to 4, then A (going towards 2), 9, 5, 6, 7 and back through the start. Pursuit Race There were 15 starters and at the end of a lap the order was still pretty well the order that they had started, with the Comets of Aileen and<\/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-2042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-wW","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042","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=2042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2043,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions\/2043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}