{"id":85,"date":"2017-08-06T19:31:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T19:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2017\/08\/06\/2nd-august-gillette-series-race-16\/"},"modified":"2017-08-06T19:31:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T19:31:00","slug":"2nd-august-gillette-series-race-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2017\/08\/06\/2nd-august-gillette-series-race-16\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd August Gillette Series Race 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px\">\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;line-height: normal\"><span>With a strong SSW wind of 13-15 mph and  persistent drizzle, so not a particularly pleasant evening, &nbsp;Chris A set the first beat to X, then 1s, 4s,  9p, 6s, 7s and back through the start.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;line-height: normal\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;line-height: normal\"><span>Not surprisingly there were only 8 starters  tonight and first back through the line was Newton in his Solo, just ahead of  the four Lasers of Ellen, Hugh, Richard H and Rick. Although Sally &amp; Stuart  (Leader and the only double hander out tonight) did cross the line level with  Rick and they were followed 20 seconds later by Alistair (Laser) and Paul H (Supernova).<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;line-height: normal\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;line-height: normal\"><span>By the end of the second lap Ellen and Hugh had  both got past Newton and further back Alistair and Paul had got past Sally  &amp; Stuart.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;line-height: normal\"><span>On the third lap the first four boats maintained  their positions, but Paul had passed Alistair and crossed the line level with  Rick in 5<sup>th<\/sup> place. Sally &amp; Stuart had also passed Alistair to  regain a place.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;line-height: normal\"><span>No change in the first four boats on the final  fourth lap, but Rick had just eased away from Paul and Alistair had regained  the place he lost on the previous lap.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;line-height: normal\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;line-height: normal\"><span>The final positions on the water were \u2013<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;line-height: normal\"><span>1<sup>st<\/sup> Ellen; 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Hugh; 3<sup>rd<\/sup>  Newton; 4<sup>th<\/sup> Richard H; 5<sup>th<\/sup> Rick; 6<sup>th<\/sup> Paul H; 7<sup>th<\/sup>  Alistair; 8<sup>th<\/sup> Sally &amp; Stuart<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;line-height: normal\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;line-height: normal\"><span>On handicap Newton will take 1<sup>st<\/sup> place  and Sally &amp; Stuart will move up to 6<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;line-height: normal\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div>                                                    <\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;line-height: normal\" dir=\"ltr\"><span>Thanks to Chris A and the OOD Team of Ian S,  Karen and Dean. &nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a strong SSW wind of 13-15 mph and persistent drizzle, so not a particularly pleasant evening, &nbsp;Chris A set the first beat to X, then 1s, 4s, 9p, 6s, 7s and back through the start. &nbsp; Not surprisingly there were only 8 starters tonight and first back through the line was Newton in his Solo, just ahead of the<\/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-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-1n","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","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=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}