{"id":361,"date":"2015-06-08T20:54:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T20:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2015\/06\/08\/3rd-june-gillette-series-race-9\/"},"modified":"2015-06-08T20:54:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T20:54:00","slug":"3rd-june-gillette-series-race-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2015\/06\/08\/3rd-june-gillette-series-race-9\/","title":{"rendered":"3rd June Gillette Series Race 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px\">\n<div><span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height: normal\"><span style='font-size: 12pt'>Karen was pressed into service as SOOD as she had  stitches in her arm and was banned from racing. This was a pity as it would  have been a good night for her. Nice and sunny with a light 8 mph wind.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height: normal\"><span style='font-size: 12pt'>There were 25 starters and first back through the  line was Steve S (Laser) followed by Ian (Supernova) then David C (Laser),  Newton (Solo), then the five Lasers of Sylvia, Hugh, Dave L, Curtis and Mike T.  Next along was Monica (Europe) closely followed by Paula (Laser), Chris A and Mike  C (Solos) and Mike A (Lightning). Sally &amp; Stuart in the Leader were the  first in a double hander and they were being chased by Peter S (Byte), Ellen in  the only Radial out tonight,<span>&nbsp; <\/span>then the  second double hander of Ralph &amp; Joe in the Feva. At this stage Bob was the  last Solo having a battle with Paul H (Supernova) and the third double hander  of Dean &amp; Nick in the Laser II just in front of Angela &amp; Crew (put your  name on the race sheet) in her Comet Duo and bringing up the rear were Tracey  (Comet) and Chris S (Laser).<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height: normal\"><span style='font-size: 12pt'>After two laps Ian had taken the lead from Steve,  Sylvia had made up a place to 4<sup>th<\/sup>, Curtis had gained three places to  5<sup>th<\/sup> and Paula two places to 9<sup>th<\/sup>. Other significant movers  were Bob up two place and Paul H up four places.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height: normal\"><span style='font-size: 12pt'>At the end of the third lap the five leaders held  station, but Hugh had regained two places to 6<sup>th<\/sup>. Further down the  fleet Ellen, Mike C, Mike A and Paul H were enjoying a good tussle.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height: normal\"><span style='font-size: 12pt'>The fourth lap saw David C move up to 2<sup>nd<\/sup>  and Sylvia to 3<sup>rd<\/sup> and Newton had repassed Hugh to move to 6<sup>th<\/sup>.  Dave L was sailing a steady race in 8<sup>th<\/sup> place being chased by Paula  and Mike T who were having a close race. The most notable mover was Bob who  gained four places up to 13<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height: normal\"><span style='font-size: 12pt'>At the end of the fifth and last lap there was no  change in position for the leading 10 boats, but Paul H, Bob and Ellen all  gained one place.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height: normal\"><span style='font-size: 12pt'>The final positions on the water were 1<sup>st<\/sup>  Ian; 2nd David C; 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Sylvia; 4<sup>th<\/sup> Steve S; 5<sup>th<\/sup>  Curtis; 6<sup>th<\/sup> Newton.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height: normal\"><span style='font-size: 12pt'>On handicap this will change slightly with Newton&#8217;s  Solo moving up to take 2<sup>nd<\/sup> place.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height: normal\"><span style='font-size: 12pt'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height: normal\"><span style='font-size: 12pt'>Thanks to Karen and the OOD team Mark, Graham and  Stan (or that might be Sian !) <\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><b><var><\/var><\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen was pressed into service as SOOD as she had stitches in her arm and was banned from racing. This was a pity as it would have been a good night for her. Nice and sunny with a light 8 mph wind. There were 25 starters and first back through the line was Steve S (Laser) followed by Ian (Supernova)<\/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-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-5P","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","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=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}