{"id":334,"date":"2015-07-24T20:21:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2015\/07\/24\/22nd-july-gillette-series-16\/"},"modified":"2015-07-24T20:21:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T20:21:00","slug":"22nd-july-gillette-series-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2015\/07\/24\/22nd-july-gillette-series-16\/","title":{"rendered":"22nd July Gillette Series 16"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Monica having served last week as SOOD was also on duty this week and again she had a tricky wind direction to cope with. She used X as the first mark, straight out from the jetty) then along the buoy line to 5P, 9S, 4P, 1P, 6s,7S  <\/span>and back through the start.  <\/span><\/div>\n
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There were 21 starters but Steve S (Laser) and Chris S (Laser) did not make it through the start line after the first lap. <\/span><\/div>\n
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Ian C (Supernova) was first back through the line followed by the Lasers of Curtis and James and the Radial of Luke, who was closely followed by Dave L (Laser). There was a fleet of Leaders out tonight and Hugh & Hadey were in the lead in 7th<\/sup> place with Mike & Neville 11th<\/sup>, Tracey & Barbara 14th<\/sup> and Sally & Bob 17th<\/sup>. It was good to see Julian back on the water in his Solo and he came through in 9th<\/sup> place. Rick in his Laser was taking part in his first race and going well in 12th<\/sup> place. Amy had opted to sail the Comet tonight and was in 16th<\/sup> place just behind William in his Topper. At the end of the first lap Paul R, Hugh & Hadey and Mike A (Lightning) approached the last mark (7) line abreast, poor Hugh & Hadey were in the middle of the sandwich and there was heated discussion about rights (which continued after the race !).<\/span><\/div>\n
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At the end of the second lap the leading five boats were in the same positions, but Paul R (Aero) actually crossed the line in the same time as the Laser of Dave L. Paula (Radial) in 10th<\/sup> place was being chased by Mike & Nev and behind them Peter S (Byte) had gained one place by passing Rick. <\/span>Dean & Nick (Vago) had decided to retire from the race but continued to sail.<\/span><\/div>\n
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By the third lap Paul R had moved up to 2nd<\/sup> and Dave L was up to 4th<\/sup> place. Mike & Nev had moved up two places to 9th<\/sup> displacing Hugh & Hadey as the leading Leader. Rick had repassed Peter, Tracey & Barbara had got past William and Paul H (Supernova) had gained two places. Sally & Bob decided to retire after three laps.<\/span><\/div>\n
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After four laps Ian still led Paul R, but Dave L had passed Curtis to move up to 3rd<\/sup>. Mike & Nev had moved up another two places to 7th<\/sup> (must have cracked up the outboard !). Peter S, Rick, Tracey & Barbara, William, Paul H and Amy received the finish gun at the end of this lap. <\/span><\/div>\n
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At the end of the fifth and last lap, the first eight boats had maintained station, but Hugh & Hadey regained a place by passing Julian who in turn had managed to get past Paula.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The final positions on the water were 1st<\/sup> Ian C; 2nd<\/sup> Paul R; 3rd<\/sup> Dave L; 4th<\/sup> Curtis; 5th<\/sup> James P, 6th<\/sup> Luke.. <\/span><\/div>\n
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Thanks to Monica and the OOD Team of David M, Roland L, Roland and Ryan and ANO (name not on sheet).<\/span><\/div>\n
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Monica having served last week as SOOD was also on duty this week and again she had a tricky wind direction to cope with. She used X as the first mark, straight out from the jetty) then along the buoy line to 5P, 9S, 4P, 1P, 6s,7S  and back through the start.   There were 21 starters but Steve S<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-5o","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","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=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}