{"id":474,"date":"2014-08-09T20:08:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2014\/08\/09\/06-august-gillette-series-race-16\/"},"modified":"2014-08-09T20:08:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T20:08:00","slug":"06-august-gillette-series-race-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2014\/08\/09\/06-august-gillette-series-race-16\/","title":{"rendered":"06 August Gillette Series Race 16"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Peter R and his team did a pre-race recce to try and set a course as weed free as possible, but this did not cut much ice with Alistair & Laura in their Laser II, who got firmly embedded on the first lap ! <\/span><\/div>\n
There were 25 starters and numerous incidents, which involved lengthy post-race discussions with the Rules Gurus, Paul R and Karen, with the help of Karen’s little boats.<\/span><\/div>\n
There was a reasonable 11-12 mph W wind and Peter set the first beat to No 5, followed by 9, 4, then a longish run down to 6. The only problem mark was No 9 where it was necessary to stay tight to the mark or risk getting caught in the weed, as many discovered !<\/span><\/div>\n
At the start David C and Paul exchanged their interpretation of the rules, with further discussion later !<\/span><\/div>\n
At the end of the first lap, Ian C (Supernova) came through the line in 1st<\/sup>, followed by a gaggle of Lasers, Curtis 2nd<\/sup>, Newton 3rd<\/sup>, Karen 4th<\/sup>, David C 5th<\/sup> and Dave L 6th<\/sup>. The first wooden boat (remember them ?) was Julian in his Solo followed by yet another Laser helmed by Dave Portus  <\/span>(remember him ?). Next there was a group of double-handers led by Nev & Mike (Leader) pursued by Angela & Paula (Comet Duo), Rob & Craig (Leader), Paul B & crew (Laser II) and Sally & Stuart (Leader); wedged somewhere in the middle of these handsome couples was Mike Todd (Laser \u2013 what another !) and trailing off the back was Paul H (you’ve guessed \u2013 Laser).  <\/span>Amy and Tracey T had a race long battle in their Comets with Amy coming out on top, with John H in another Comet further back. There was also a tussle between Holly and Grace in Toppers and it was good to see a new starter in John W (Radial). Chris & Carol were out in their Sport 14, but had left Alfie (Golden Retriever) on the bank. Alfie gets his dip after the race has finished,<\/span><\/div>\n
The second lap leader was still Ian C and in fact he led right through to the finish. Curtis was still 2nd<\/sup> but Karen had got past Newton into 3rd<\/sup>. The next four boats held position but Nev & Mike had moved up to 9th<\/sup> place and Dave I (Radial) had moved up to 10th place by passing Mike A (Lightning). The other movers were Sally & Stuart who gained two places.<\/span><\/div>\n
By the third lap Newton had taken 3rd<\/sup> from Curtis, but everyone else had maintained station. Chris & Carol were nearly pushed over the orange buoy line, which led to another post-race examination of the rules.<\/span><\/div>\n
The end of the fourth and last lap saw no change in the positions of the leading 10 boats, which is quite unusual.  <\/span>Behind these, Mike T had gone for a swim, but Rob & Craig had moved up two places and there was a real scrap between Sally & Stuart, Paul H and Mike A. So much so that these three came together literally before the penultimate mark and formed a three boat raft allowing a wet Mike T to nip past them. Not surprisingly this incident was referred to the Rules Gurus and discussed at length, completely exonerating Paul H, probably exonerating Sally & Stuart and putting Mike A in the naughty corner.  <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
The final positions were 1st<\/sup> Ian C, 2nd<\/sup> Karen, 3rd<\/sup> Newton and 4th<\/sup> Curtis, behind them David C and Dave L were in danger of being passed by Julian on handicap.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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  Peter R and his team did a pre-race recce to try and set a course as weed free as possible, but this did not cut much ice with Alistair & Laura in their Laser II, who got firmly embedded on the first lap ! There were 25 starters and numerous incidents, which involved lengthy post-race discussions with the Rules Gurus,<\/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-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-7E","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","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=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}