It was a very light wind this morning coming from the SSE and varying from 0 to 3 mph! In the absence of a breeze James P decided to use a letter course, using the right letters but not necessarily in the right order (to quote Mr Morecambe!), A, D, B, C and back through the S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was also one of those rare occasions when the numbers of the race team matched the numbers on the water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pursuit Race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n With the light wind and the fiendishly short course there were just over three laps before the 35 minute gun sounded. For the first two laps the order remained the same with early starter Ron\/Mirror leading from the Comets of Chris H and Aileen with Roland\/Solo in 4th<\/sup> place. The Lasers of Mike T and Chris K were next with Paul W\/Morbic ahead of Nigel\/Laser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not sure what happened, but Chris H had a disastrous third lap dropping from 2nd<\/sup> to 5th<\/sup>. Ron was still leading but Aileen was now 2nd<\/sup> and Mike T had moved up to 3rd<\/sup> ahead of Roland and Chris K. Nigel and Ron did not actually complete their third lap before the gun sounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The final order was 1st<\/sup> Aileen; 2nd<\/sup> Mike T; 3rd<\/sup> Ron; 4th<\/sup> Roland; 5th<\/sup> Chris K; 6th<\/sup> Chris H.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Handicap Race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The wind did pick up slightly on the second lap, which resulted in a six lap race for the leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chris H was first back across the line just ahead of Mike T, who was followed closely by Aileen, Chris K and Roland. Ron was next across followed by Nigel and Paul W in his usual position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By the end of the second lap the two Lasers of Mike T and Chris K had moved to the front pushing Chris H down to 3rd<\/sup> with Roland passing Aileen to move to 4th <\/sup>with no further changesbehindthem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the third lap Chris K and Chris H passed Mike T to move to 1st<\/sup> and 2nd<\/sup>. The only other change was Nigel passing Rom to move to 6th<\/sup> place. Paul received the gun at the end of his third lap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The fourth and fifth laps saw no change in the order, but Nigel and Ron were finished at the end of their fifth laps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, the fleet was down to five for the final lap and perhaps unsurprisingly in the light conditions there was still no change in the order which was \u2013 1st<\/sup> Chris K; 2nd<\/sup> Chris H, 3rd<\/sup> Mike T; 4th<\/sup> Roland; 5th<\/sup> Aileen with Nigel and Ron one lap short in 6th<\/sup> and 7th<\/sup> and Paul 8th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On corrected time the order changes to \u2013 1st<\/sup> Chris H; 2nd<\/sup> Chris K; 3rd<\/sup> Aileen; 4th<\/sup> Mike T; 5th<\/sup> Roland; 6th<\/sup> Ron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks to SOOD James Primrose along with Bea & Rhys Primrose, Ainhoa Montero de Espinala, Graham Kneebone, James Coombs, Joanne Holden and Marcin Tiela.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was a very light wind this morning coming from the SSE and varying from 0 to 3 mph! In the absence of a breeze James P decided to use a letter course, using the right letters but not necessarily in the right order (to quote Mr Morecambe!), A, D, B, C and back through the S. It was also<\/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-2071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-xp","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071","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=2071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2072,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions\/2072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}