{"id":457,"date":"2014-09-14T20:06:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T20:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2014\/09\/14\/14th-september-cobley-pursuit-3\/"},"modified":"2014-09-14T20:06:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T20:06:00","slug":"14th-september-cobley-pursuit-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2014\/09\/14\/14th-september-cobley-pursuit-3\/","title":{"rendered":"14th September Cobley Pursuit 3"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nice to see Mark back on the water, but let’s hope we see him next in his Laser rather than in the Safety Boat. There was quite a good wind, 10-11 mph but it was in a slightly tricky ENE direction and Mark opted for a Tektona start coming down to X, then back up to 5, 1, 4 and 3. <\/span><\/div>\n
There were 16 boats under starter’s orders and first away was young William P in his Topper followed 9 min later by Hadey in the 4.7, then 3 min after Hadey, Mike C (Solo) and Bob & Roland (Leader) set forth. Then 2 min later it was the turn of Newton & Ellen (Laser 2000) and Issy (Radial). Great to see Issy back on the water, another prodigal returning to us. Peter R & Colin H (Enterprise) started soon after followed by the Laser pack, with Paul H (Supernova) 1 min later.  <\/span>Adrian had to wait another minute before he could get away in his Vago and marking time for another 10 min were Steve & Lynn in the 505. Another welcome back, this time to Lynn who has had to stay away through an injury. It seemed to be a day for returning sailors !<\/span><\/div>\n
After one lap Newton & Ellen had passed the boats ahead of them and came through in 1st<\/sup> place, Hadey was still hanging onto 2nd<\/sup>, but the Laser of David C was already ominously close in 3rd<\/sup> with Peter & Colin 4th<\/sup>, then the Lasers of Karen, Dave P, Curtis and James P closing in on the Enterprise. Obviously a good day to be in a Laser ! Mike C came through in 9th<\/sup> chased by Issy, Adrian and Paul H.  <\/span>Adrian was flying his kite when he could, but the runs were not long enough to make a significant difference, still it looked great. Next came the last starter, the 505, which had passed Bob & Roland, Mike T (Laser) and William P.<\/span><\/div>\n
Newton & Ellen still led at two laps, but David C had moved to 2nd<\/sup> with Peter &Colin 3rd<\/sup> and the Lasers of Karen, Curtis, James P and Dave P in the next four places. The highest mover on this lap was Paul H who had gained three places.<\/span><\/div>\n
At the end of the third lap David C and Karen had passed Newton &Ellen to take 1st<\/sup> and 2nd<\/sup> places respectively. James P had passed Curtis to move up to 5th<\/sup> and the other movers (upwards!) were Mike C and Paul H who each gained one place and Steve & Lynn who had gained two places.<\/span><\/div>\n
On the final lap Curtis broke his tiller extension and had to retire before the finish gun.<\/span><\/div>\n
At the gun the first three were the same, but the main mover was Dave P who had passed Peter & Colin and James P to take 4th<\/sup> place. Well done to William who persevered in his Topper to the end.<\/span><\/div>\n
The final podium was 1st<\/sup> David C, 2nd<\/sup> Karen, 3rd<\/sup> Newton & Ellen  <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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  Nice to see Mark back on the water, but let’s hope we see him next in his Laser rather than in the Safety Boat. There was quite a good wind, 10-11 mph but it was in a slightly tricky ENE direction and Mark opted for a Tektona start coming down to X, then back up to 5, 1, 4<\/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-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-7n","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","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=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}