A fairly light SSE wind about 5-8 mph which dropped during the evening. SOOD Dave L made liberal use of the letter buoys resulting in a course of B, C, 4, D and back through the start (and your guess is as good as mine as to where they were located!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Twenty starters tonight and first back round was James C\/RS300 already a minute and a half ahead of Steve S & Rick\/RS200 followed by Newton & Sam in another RS200.Ralph\/Laser was 4th<\/sup> in touching distance of the leaders and nearly two minutes ahead of Mike T\/Laser, who was closely followed by Chris H\/Comet and Karen\/Laser. Next along were Roland\/Solo and Emily\/Radial who crossed the line together battling for 8th<\/sup> place. Nearly two minutes later Alessandro & Matt\/470 crossed in 11th<\/sup> place just ahead of Sally\/Comet. Then there was another wait of two minutes until Aileen\/Comet crossed 30 seconds ahead of Rich\/Comet Duo and Jamie H\/Laser and they were being chased by Ainhoa, Paul H and Jeremy, all in Lasers. Bringing up the rear was Paul W\/Morbic and he was well ahead of the Mirrors of Ron and 3518 (which may have been Uriel Susanne Clausen).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lap 2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Not much changed with the leading six boats, but Roland was pressing Karen for 7th<\/sup> place as they crossed the line together. Further back Paul H had gained two places by passing Ainhoa and Jamie. Paul W and the two Mirrors received the hotter at the end of this lap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lap 3<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n James C crossed the line well ahead of everyone else having led from start to finish, but the question would be was he far enough ahead to take victory on handicap. Newton & Sam were second across the line with Mike T 3rd<\/sup> and Ralph 4th<\/sup>. Roland had won his battle with Karen to cross in 5th<\/sup> place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the water the order was \u2013 <\/p>\n\n\n\n 1st<\/sup> James C; 2nd<\/sup> Newton & Sam; 3rd<\/sup> Mike T; 4th<\/sup> Ralph; 5th<\/sup> Roland; 6th<\/sup> Karen ; 7th<\/sup> Steve & Rick; 8th<\/sup> Chris H<\/p>\n\n\n\n On corrected time this becomes \u2013 1st<\/sup> Chris H; 2nd<\/sup> Sally; 3rd<\/sup> Roland ; 4th<\/sup> Aileen; 5th<\/sup> Newton & Sam; 6th<\/sup> Mike T<\/p>\n\n\n\n A good night for the Comets and the Solo, but not so good for the faster rated boats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks to SOOD Dave L and the race team of Andre Eitner, Chris Andrews, Ian Stewart, Keith Baxter and Leon Skilling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A fairly light SSE wind about 5-8 mph which dropped during the evening. SOOD Dave L made liberal use of the letter buoys resulting in a course of B, C, 4, D and back through the start (and your guess is as good as mine as to where they were located!) Twenty starters tonight and first back round was James<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-yy","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142","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=2142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2143,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions\/2143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}