{"id":2631,"date":"2025-07-14T07:39:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T07:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/?p=2631"},"modified":"2025-08-07T18:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T18:00:12","slug":"10th-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2025\/07\/14\/10th-july\/","title":{"rendered":"9th July Gillette Series Race 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Light winds gripped the lake for the first round of the Gillette Junior race. 6 juniors made it out for a short 3 lap race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ilya (Topper 4.2) had a great start and led <\/a>for much of the race, before stalling. This allowed Molly (Topper 4.2) to pass into the lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elsewhere, Fergus (Optimist) led the oppie fleet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Molly was first across the line, followed by Ilya & and Fergus. On Handicap, Fergus took the win, with Molly 2nd & Ilya 3rd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A big thank you to Karen & Will S for running the race for the juniors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main Gillette race was next, with several juniors opting to race again with the adults. 15 sailors were met with a light breeze from the west.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A wind shift just before the start led to a very biased line, with the best position to start at the pin end. Will S (ILCA4) had a great start before stalling on the downwind leg. Steve S (Blaze) and Hugh (ILCA7) meanwhile were forced out by Aileen (Comet) who had to do penalty turns due to her infringement. This allowed Roland S (Solo) and Mark B (Aero) to get past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elsewhere in the race, Will S was passed by Joel (ILCA6) & Aileen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The wind died almost completely, resulting in just a 2 lap race. Steve S crossed the line 1st, with Roland 2nd. Mark finished 3rd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Handicap, Roland finished 1st, with Steve S 2nd and Mark 3rd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were several retirements as the wind completely dropped, but Tim (ILCA7) persevered, finishing at just over the hour mark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A big thank you to Chris H and his team for running the racing yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the race, there were chicken enchiladas, followed by cheesecake, made by Chris & Carol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’re back on Sunday for the July Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Light winds gripped the lake for the first round of the Gillette Junior race. 6 juniors made it out for a short 3 lap race. Ilya (Topper 4.2) had a great start and led for much of the race, before stalling. This allowed Molly (Topper 4.2) to pass into the lead. Elsewhere, Fergus (Optimist) led the oppie fleet. Molly was<\/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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jollysailor"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-Gr","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631","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=2631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2667,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631\/revisions\/2667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}