{"id":2144,"date":"2022-05-26T19:43:25","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T19:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2022-05-26T19:43:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T19:43:25","slug":"commodores-cup-race-7-25th-may-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2022\/05\/26\/commodores-cup-race-7-25th-may-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Commodore\u2019s Cup Race 7 \u2013 25th May 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was very windy tonight blowing WSW 15 \u2013 20 mph. Hadey stepped up to the mark as SOOD and set a course of A (between 4 and 5), 9, 4, B (near Tektona), 5,6, 7 and through the start line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There were 14 starters and Lucy and Thomas capsized before the start and both retired on the first lap. Lucy as she capsized again and Thomas because of a bent tiller extension. Ralph was another to capsize on the fist lap along with Hattie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First back across the line (again) was James C\/RS300 followed by Steve S\/Blaze, Mike T and Karen in Lasers and Newton &amp; Sam\/RS200. Jamie H and a recovering Ralph both in Lasers came through in 6<sup>th<\/sup> and 7<sup>th<\/sup> some 30 seconds ahead of Chris H\/Comet. Hattie\/Laser and Paul H\/Supernova crossed the line together about a minute ahead of Aileen\/Comet. Then two minutes later Paul W\/Morbic came through and he was well in front of Chris &amp; crew\/Sport 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Lap 2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No change in the fist seven positions, but Paul H had moved up two places to 8<sup>th<\/sup>, Aileen moved up one place to 10<sup>th<\/sup> and Hattie capsized near 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Lap 3<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Remarkably not a single change in position throughout the fleet, but Hattie capsized &nbsp;again and again!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chris M &amp; crew received the hooter at the end of the lap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Lap 4<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No change again, but Hattie (probably relieved) received the hooter at the end of this lap along with Aileen and Paul W.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Lap 5<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fleet was now down to nine boats, but none of them passed each other and Jamie, Ralph, Paul H and Chris H all received the hooter to finish their race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Lap 6<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only six completed this last lap and they finished in the same order as the previous three laps!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1<sup>st<\/sup> James C; 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Steve S; 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Mike T; 4<sup>th<\/sup> Karen; 5<sup>th<\/sup> Newton &amp; Sam; then one lap down 6<sup>th<\/sup> Jamie; 7<sup>th<\/sup> Ralph; 8<sup>th<\/sup> Paul H<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On corrected time, this changes to \u2013 1<sup>st<\/sup> James C; 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Mike T; 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Karen; 4<sup>th<\/sup> Newton &amp; Sam; 5<sup>th<\/sup> Steve S; 6<sup>th<\/sup> Jamie<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks to SOOD Hadey and the race team of Carol Meunier, Jorge Bernal, Mike Caton, Nick Jonathon-Joyce and Steve Chege.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well done to all in tricky conditions and especially to Hattie for her perseverance despite multiple capsizes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was very windy tonight blowing WSW 15 \u2013 20 mph. Hadey stepped up to the mark as SOOD and set a course of A (between 4 and 5), 9, 4, B (near Tektona), 5,6, 7 and through the start line. There were 14 starters and Lucy and Thomas capsized before the start and both retired on the first lap.<\/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-2144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-yA","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144","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=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2145,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions\/2145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}