{"id":99,"date":"2017-06-25T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2017\/06\/25\/25th-june-summer-series-5\/"},"modified":"2017-06-25T15:56:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T15:56:00","slug":"25th-june-summer-series-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2017\/06\/25\/25th-june-summer-series-5\/","title":{"rendered":"25th June Summer Series 5"},"content":{"rendered":"
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 <\/span><\/b>In contrast to last Sunday there was plenty of wind this Sunday. It was blowing about 13 \u2013 15 mph from WSW with a few stronger squalls coming through. Mike A set the first beat down to 4 than 2p, 5s, 8p, 6s, 7s and back though the start.<\/span><\/div>\n
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There were 18 starters and the fresh wind had brought Julian B out to play! At the end of the first lap Dave P in his Mirror was still leading the fleet with Curtis (Radial) in 2nd<\/sup> place, but being rapidly caught by Julian B (OK) and Paul R (Aero). Then along came the first full rig Laser of James P who had just passed Hadey (sailing a 4.7 rig but taking a Radial handicap start).<\/span><\/div>\n
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The finish gun went as the leading boats were nearing No 4 on the second lap and Paul R had got through to take the victory with Julian B in 2nd<\/sup> place, Curtis 3rd<\/sup>, Adrian up to 4th<\/sup>, Gareth (Laser) 5th<\/sup> and Karen (Laser) 6th<\/sup>.  <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Despite the freshening condition everyone opted to go in the second race and Paul R was first back though the line, but not far ahead of Newton & Ellen (RS200) with Julian B about a minute back in 3rd<\/sup> place.  <\/span>James was fourth across the line and then Hugh (Laser) led through a pack of boats who were all very close together consisting of Curtis(Radial), Karen (Laser), Adrian (Rooster), Richard S (Laser), Gareth (Laser) and Jon (Laser). There was then a slight gap before Hadey came through ahead of Rick (Laser), Dave & Ann (Leader) Dean & Nick (Vago) and Chris A (Solo). Then about a minute further back came Chris H in his Comet and Dave P in the Mirror.<\/span><\/div>\n
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There was no change in the leading five boats on the second lap, although Paul had increased his lead and Julian B had caught, but not passed Newton & Ellen, and they had a terrific scrap for the rest of the race for the 2nd<\/sup> spot. Adrian had gained two places to move to 6th<\/sup> and Jon was up four places to 7th<\/sup> and behind him the other Lasers were in a close battle for the 8th<\/sup> place. Further back Rick had got past Hadey to move to 12th<\/sup>, but the boats behind them had not changed position.<\/span><\/div>\n
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At the end of the third lap the first three remained the same, but Adrian had gained another two places to move up to 4th<\/sup>. Hugh who was lying in 5th<\/sup> place unfortunately capsized on the way to No 6, which allowed all the boats behind him to move up one place. Jon, Richard S and Gareth also gained another place by passing Curtis, so this was a bad lap for the Wargrave Nursery team !  <\/span>Hadey regained 12th<\/sup> place by passing Rick, who was also passed by Dean & Nick and Dave & Ann (who had changed places in the Vago’s favour).<\/span><\/div>\n
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Are you a keen gardener Rick?<\/span><\/div>\n
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Chris H and Dave P <\/b>who had been gamely battling on at the rear of the fleet received the finish gun at the end of the lap.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The finish gun at the end of the fourth lap saw Paul R cross the line over four minutes ahead of Julian B who had managed to snatch 2nd<\/sup> place from Newton & Ellen. Jon gained another two places to take 5th place. The only other mover in the right direction was Chris A who just managed to get past Rick (he must be a gardener).  <\/span> <\/span><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
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The final positions on the <\/b>water were –  <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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1st<\/sup> Paul R; 2nd<\/sup> Julian B; 3rd<\/sup> Newton &Ellen; 4th<\/sup> Adrian; 5th<\/sup> Jon; 6th<\/sup> James.<\/span><\/div>\n
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On handicap Paul will retain first place, but Julian should leapfrog Newton & Ellen to take second.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Jon and James should move up to fourth and fifth with Curtis taking 6th<\/sup> place.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Thanks to Mike A and the OOD Team of Alistair J and Andrew M and especially Roland L, Alistair S and Jeremy T who although not on the rota stepped in to help.<\/span><\/div>\n
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 In contrast to last Sunday there was plenty of wind this Sunday. It was blowing about 13 \u2013 15 mph from WSW with a few stronger squalls coming through. Mike A set the first beat down to 4 than 2p, 5s, 8p, 6s, 7s and back though the start. Pursuit Race There were 18 starters and the fresh wind had<\/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-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-1B","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","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=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}