{"id":113,"date":"2017-05-15T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2017\/05\/15\/spring-series-11-14th-may\/"},"modified":"2017-05-15T20:36:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T20:36:00","slug":"spring-series-11-14th-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2017\/05\/15\/spring-series-11-14th-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Series 11 14th May"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With a WSW wind of about 12 mph, John W was able to use the usual flagpole start line with a first beat to 4, then 1s, 3s, 8p, 6s, 7s and back through the start line.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Pursuit<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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There were 17 starters and everyone completed the race, which lasted about two laps before the finish gun sounded. First away was Rhys in his Topper followed by Chris H (Comet|) and then the 4.7s of his brother William and Hadey.<\/span><\/div>\n
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At the gun Julian B (OK) had come through to take 1st<\/sup> place, but Hadey had managed to stay ahead of everyone else to finish in 2nd<\/sup> place<\/span><\/div>\n
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1st<\/sup>  <\/span>Julian B \u2013OK; 2nd<\/sup> Hadey \u2013 4.7; 3rd<\/sup> Newton & Ellen \u2013 RS200; 4th<\/sup> Richard S \u2013 Laser; 5th<\/sup> Karen \u2013 Laser; 6th<\/sup> Mark \u2013 Laser<\/span><\/div>\n
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As usual Dave I, who sailed with a Radial rig in the first race, did not take part in the handicap race and this left 16 starters for the second race, which consisted of three laps. <\/span><\/div>\n
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Fist back through the line at the end of the first lap was Julian B (OK) not far ahead of Ellen & Newton (RS200) followed by the Lasers of Rick and James, who crossed the line together, and then close behind them were Mark and Karen in Lasers, who were also very close as they crossed the line. Richard S (Laser) was next through in 7th<\/sup> place, just ahead of the Radials of Ralph and Mike A. Then there was a gap back to another close group headed by Hadey (4.7), Dean & Nick (Vago), William (4.7), Alistair S (Laser) and Chris H (Comet) and another gap back to Adrian (Vago \u2013 single handed) with Rhys gamely bringing up the rear in his Topper.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Dean & Nick and Alistair retired after completing the first lap.<\/span><\/div>\n
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By the end of the second lap the first two boats had maintained their lead, but James had established himself in 3rd<\/sup> place with Mark moving up to 4th<\/sup>. Karen, Richard S, Ralph and Mike A had all moved up one place to occupy 5th<\/sup>, 6th, <\/sup>7th <\/sup>and 8th positions, whilst Rick had taken penalty turns after touching a mark twice. Rhys received the finish gun at the end of this lap.<\/span><\/div>\n
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At the gun there was no change in the places of the leading two boats, although Julian had stretched his lead slightly. Mark had managed to get past James to take 3rd<\/sup> place and Richard S had moved up one place to 5th<\/sup> and Rick had regained a place to move up to 8th<\/sup>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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1st<\/sup> Julian B \u2013 OK; 2nd<\/sup> Ellen & Newton \u2013 RS200; 3rd<\/sup> Mark \u2013 Laser; 4th<\/sup> James \u2013 Laser; 5th<\/sup> Richard S -_ Laser; 6th<\/sup> Karen \u2013 Laser<\/span><\/div>\n
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On handicap the first four should maintain their positions, but Ralph should move up to 5th<\/sup> pushing Richard down to 6th<\/sup>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Thanks to John W and the OOD Team of Cecilia, Patrick, Gareth and Al.<\/span><\/div>\n
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With a WSW wind of about 12 mph, John W was able to use the usual flagpole start line with a first beat to 4, then 1s, 3s, 8p, 6s, 7s and back through the start line.   Pursuit There were 17 starters and everyone completed the race, which lasted about two laps before the finish gun sounded. First away<\/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-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-1P","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","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=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}