{"id":470,"date":"2014-08-17T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2014\/08\/17\/17-august-summer-series-race-10\/"},"modified":"2014-08-17T20:37:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-17T20:37:00","slug":"17-august-summer-series-race-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2014\/08\/17\/17-august-summer-series-race-10\/","title":{"rendered":"17 August Summer series Race 10"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a fairly strong WSW wind, 15 mph with gusts up to 28 mph, Chris A set a beat down to <\/span>No 4, which was plenty long enough in the conditions. <\/span> <\/p>\n
Not long after the start James P (Laser) T boned Curtis (Laser) and took him out. Curtis actually had right of way on starboard but unfortunately came out of the encounter second best, capsizing and embedding his mast in the mud. Not sure what happened to Philip A (Laser) but he did not come through at the end of the first lap, which saw a group of four boats very close together come across the line. Newton & Scott (Laser 2000) just led from Ian C (Supernova), Karen (Laser) and Steve S (Radial), who obviously thought his Solo might suffer in the wind and opted for his Laser. A little way back from these came the three Lasers of Mike A, Dave L and John W with another small gap back to Dave I (Laser), Mike C (Solo) and James P.  <\/span>Behind James, Adrian had his hands full sailing his Vago single handed, he certainly likes a challenge! Oswin (Laser) was some way ahead of Hugh (Byte) who was being chased by a recovering Curtis with John C bringing up the rear in his Topaz.<\/span><\/div>\n
By the end of the second lap Ian had moved up to 1st<\/sup> and Steve up to 2nd<\/sup>, pushing Newton & Scott down to 3rd<\/sup> and Karen down to 4th<\/sup>. John W was going well and had passed Dave L to take 6th<\/sup> place. Dave I was still in 8th<\/sup> and maintained this position right to the end of the race. <\/span>James P had passed Mike C but they were very close on the water and Curtis had got past Oswin. Hugh had decided one lap was enough for him and retired.<\/span><\/div>\n
The third lap saw the four leaders holding position but John W had move up another place by passing Mike A and Curtis had done likewise by overtaking Adrian. John C went for a swim and nearly finished up in the bushes.<\/span><\/div>\n
Oswin and John C did not come round for the fourth lap but they may have been finished (in more ways than one) at the end of the third lap.<\/span><\/div>\n
There was no change at the front in the fourth lap but Mike A had managed to retake 5th<\/sup> place from John W, and Dave L decided it was his turn for a dip! The fifth and last lap saw a really close finish with Steve S crossing the line in 1st<\/sup> place only 20 seconds ahead of Ian, but John W had a storming last lap making up two places and coming in 4th. Curtis made up one more place on the water by just pipping Mike C across the line, but on handicap Mike will clearly beat the three Lasers of Curtis, James and Dave I who finished ahead of him.<\/span><\/div>\n
The final placings on the water were 1st<\/sup> Steve, 2nd<\/sup> Ian, 3rd<\/sup> Newton; but on handicap it is likely that Newton & Scott will move up to 2nd<\/sup>. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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In a fairly strong WSW wind, 15 mph with gusts up to 28 mph, Chris A set a beat down to No 4, which was plenty long enough in the conditions. Not long after the start James P (Laser) T boned Curtis (Laser) and took him out. Curtis actually had right of way on starboard but unfortunately came out of<\/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-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-7A","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","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=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}