The forecast was for a SSE wind of 5 mph, but this dropped to near zero as the evening wore on. This resulted in a two lap race with the second lap being over four times longer than the first!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the end of the first lap Karen\/Laser led from Emily\/4.7 with Ralph\/Laser in 3rd<\/sup> place. Then 30 seconds layer Darren\/Laser crossed the line followed by Chris H\/Comet and Mark\/Laser and Aileen\/Comet. Steve S & Rick\/RS200 were through in 8th<\/sup> about one minute further back and then it was another two minutes before Ron came along in his Mirror. He was closely followed by Sally\/Comet and Nigel and Hattie in Lasers, but it was another 20 minutes before Paul W in his Morbic hove into view (he had probably been exploring the hinterland) and he received the gun at the end of this lap. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the second lap the air was still, which obviously suited the Comets as Chris had taken the lead with Aileen moving up to 3rd<\/sup> sandwiching Karen. \u00a0There was a bit of shuffling mid-fleet but Steve & Rick and Ron retained their 8th<\/sup> and 9th<\/sup> places. Sally, Nigel and Hattie abandoned all hope of completing the lap as they did not want to face the dawn chorus on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The order on the water was \u2013 1st<\/sup> Chris H; 2nd<\/sup> Karen; 3rd<\/sup> Aileen; 4th<\/sup> Ralph; 5th<\/sup> Emily; 6th <\/sup>Mark; 7th<\/sup> Darren; 8th<\/sup> Steve & Rick<\/p>\n\n\n\n On corrected time this changes to 1st<\/sup> Ron\/Mirror (never write him off until the dealing is done); 2nd<\/sup> Chris H\/Comet; 3rd<\/sup> Aileen\/Comet; 4th<\/sup> Emily\/4.7; 5th<\/sup> Karen\/Laser; 6th<\/sup> Ralph\/Laser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks to SOOD Mike Trussler and the race team of Bob Hine, Martin Lewin, Nick Heaven and Roland Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The forecast was for a SSE wind of 5 mph, but this dropped to near zero as the evening wore on. This resulted in a two lap race with the second lap being over four times longer than the first! At the end of the first lap Karen\/Laser led from Emily\/4.7 with Ralph\/Laser in 3rd place. Then 30 seconds layer<\/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-2131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-yn","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131","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=2131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2132,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions\/2132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}