{"id":2098,"date":"2022-03-21T11:47:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T11:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/?p=2098"},"modified":"2022-03-21T11:47:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T11:47:20","slug":"spring-series-1-20th-march-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2022\/03\/21\/spring-series-1-20th-march-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Series 1 \u2013 20th March 2022<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It was a lovely sunny morning and with an East wind of about 10 mph, SOOD Mike T opted to head down towards Tektona\u2019s resting place to start the race with a course of 1, 3, A, 5, 4 and back through the start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pursuit Race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

15 starters this morning, slightly more than we have been getting of late and early starter Adrian B in his Crescent (nice to see you out racing) was first back across the line, followed by Chris H\/Comet, Emily\/4.7 and Roland S\/Solo. Closing fast were Chris K\/Laser and James C\/RS300 followed by the Lasers of Adrian F and James P. Mike C\/Solo rolled through in 9th<\/sup> place just ahead of Aileen\/Comet, Alistair\/Laser and Sally\/Comet. Thomas M was through in 13th<\/sup> followed by Nigel\/Laser and Alessandro\/Aero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the gun James C had powered through to take the victory and the finishing order was \u2013 1st<\/sup> James C; 2nd<\/sup> Chris K; 3rd<\/sup> Chis H; 4th<\/sup> Roland; 5th<\/sup> Emily; 6th<\/sup> Adrian B<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Handicap Race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mike tweaked the course for the second race by putting in B instead of 1 as the first mark and Sally and Adrian B opted to sit this one out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James C\/RS300 was first back across the line with a healthy lead over the Lasers of Chris K and James P. Next through the line were the Solos of Roland and Mike C with Chris H\/Comet sitting between them. Adrian F and Alistair both in Lasers were having a good battle for 7th<\/sup> spot and crossed the line with only 5 seconds between them and they were only just ahead of Emily\/4.7, Thomas\/Laser and Nigel\/Laser (a large banket would have covered them all!). Further back were Aileen\/Comet and Alessandro trying to come to terms with his flighty Aero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remarkably at the end of the second lap there was no change in the order of the first seven boats. However, Nigel had put the booster on and moved up three places to 8th<\/sup>. Emily and Thomas were still 9th<\/sup> and 10th<\/sup> and Alistair had slipped back to 11th<\/sup>. Having said that, they were all very close together and Aileen had come up to join them. Alessandro received the gun at the end of his second lap as James C had lapped him just before the line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James C crossed the line to take victory on the water and the four boats behind him finished in the same order as the previous two laps. The loser on this last lap was Mike C who slipped down from 6th<\/sup> to 10th<\/sup> place being passed by Adrian F, a resurgent Alistair (up four places), Thomas and Emily. Nigel also slid back three places to 11th<\/sup> and was almost caught by Aileen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The order on the water was \u2013 1st<\/sup> James C; 2nd<\/sup> Chris K; 3rd<\/sup> James P; 4th<\/sup> Roland; 5th<\/sup> Chris H; 6th<\/sup> Adrian F<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On corrected time this becomes \u2013 1st<\/sup> Chris K; 2nd<\/sup> Roland; 3rd<\/sup> James P; 4th<\/sup> James C; 5th<\/sup> Chris H; 6th<\/sup> Emily<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to SOOD Mike Trussler and the race team of Chris Andrews, Paul Waterman, Samuel Wright (and son?).     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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