There was action at Joel tried to sneak in to windward of Newton at the start. Newton was having none of that and closed the gap. Despite some evasive manoeuvres, Joel hit Newton and had to complete penalty turn. Steve S was the first to the windward mark in his Blaze. Followed by Newton (Solo) and Rhys (ILCA 6). By the end of the first lap, Rhys and Mark (Aero 7) had overtaken Newton, who was down to 4th place. Elsewhere in the race, Nigel, Aileen, Steve P and Ian were having a close fight for the best of the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There was further drama on lap 3, when Newton was rammed into by Rhys whilst rounding the windward mark, in what was clearly an act of ageism. By the time Rhys had completed his penalty turns, he’d been passed by both Joel and Mark B.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Steve S was first across the line, followed by Newton and Mark B. On Handicap, Steve S held onto his win, with Joel 2nd. It was too close to call for the 3rd place, so Rhys and Newton share the final podium place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A big thank you to Hugh and his team for organising the racing yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the victims of the uncertainty regarding road repairs was the post racing meal, which was cancelled. Sally had a Tuna sandwich for dinner instead which she said was very enjoyable, but didn’t offer to share it with anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We’re back on Sunday for the 1st rounds of the Summer Series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yesterday’s round of the Commodore’s Cup nearly didn’t happen. Uncertainty around road repairs meant it was well past Sally’s nap time before racing was confirmed. 11 boats took to the water in a fairly consistent force three from the Southwest. There was action at Joel tried to sneak in to windward of Newton at the start. Newton was having none<\/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-2582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-FE","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582","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=2582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2685,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions\/2685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/493188409_1129758509189183_2789695769938395569_n.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"