{"id":95,"date":"2017-07-07T20:57:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T20:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2017\/07\/07\/5th-july-gillette-series-race-12\/"},"modified":"2017-07-07T20:57:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T20:57:00","slug":"5th-july-gillette-series-race-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2017\/07\/07\/5th-july-gillette-series-race-12\/","title":{"rendered":"5th July Gillette Series Race 12"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A very hot sunny evening<\/span> with initially very little wind, but Newton managed to set a course which captured the available wind, which eventually did get up to about 8 mph from the NE. He used a Committee Boat start in the vicinity of Tektona but slightly further down the lake and the first mark was X (about level with No 8 but in the middle of the lake) then 5p, 9s, 4p, Op ( slightly down from No 2 but further towards the middle of the lake) and back through the start.<\/span><\/div>\n
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There were 17 starters and Ellen (Laser) was first back through the start line followed by the Solos of Chris A and Julian W and these three had opened up a useful lead. About a minute later Chris H (Comet) came through with Mike A (Lightning) not far behind him, but being caught rapidly by Karen (Laser). Then James P was next in his Laser with Bea on the foredeck giving him instructions and also cajoling William who was a couple of boats back from them. Close behind James were Sally & Stuart (Leader) and Mike C (single handed in his Wanderer) and then came William who was trying to ignore his sister’s “helpful” comments. There was then quite a gap before Nick & Dean (Vago) came through the line and they were well ahead of Ed and Rhys (Feva), Chris & Carol (420) and Jeremy (Laser). Bringing up the rear of the fleet were Jemima (Oppie), Chris S (Laser) and Paul H (Supernova).  <\/span><\/div>\n
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On the second lap the first three boats maintained their lead, but Karen had got past Chris H to move up to 4th<\/sup>. Sally & Stuart, Nick & Dean and Chris & Carol all gained two places to move to 6th, <\/sup>9th and 11th respectively. Jeremy also gained one place and Paul H gained two places, but Chris S decided to retire. With the wind starting to drop Jeremy, Jemima and Paul H all received the finish gun at the end of the lap.<\/span><\/div>\n
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During the last lap the wind dropped even more, but Ellen finished well ahead of everyone else. Karen had gained another place to move up to 2nd<\/sup> place pushing Chris A down to 3rd<\/sup>, who just managed to beat Mike A across the line. Julian W who had been holding 3rd<\/sup> place sailed straight into a patch of weed and stopped dead, but he did manage to extricate himself to finish in 5th<\/sup>place. All the boats behind him were unlucky as they got caught by the dropping wind and fell back. Chris H who had been battling for 4th<\/sup> place lost six minutes in the last half of the lap to finish 6th<\/sup>, but Nick & Dean did gain another two places to finish in 7th<\/sup> position. <\/span><\/div>\n
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The final positons on the water were \u2013<\/span><\/div>\n
1st<\/sup> Ellen; 2nd<\/sup> Karen; 3rd<\/sup> Chris A: 4th<\/sup> Mike A; 5th<\/sup> Julian w; 6th<\/sup> Chris H<\/span><\/div>\n
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On handicap Mike should move up to 1st<\/sup> place with Ellen 2nd<\/sup>, Chris A 3rd<\/sup>, Julian 4th<\/sup>, Karen 5th<\/sup> and Jemima 6th<\/sup>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Thanks to Newton and the OOD Team of Bob H, Matt M and Mike T<\/span><\/div>\n
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