{"id":1292,"date":"2019-04-22T07:52:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T07:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2019-04-22T07:52:43","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T07:52:43","slug":"spring-series-8-21st-april-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2019\/04\/22\/spring-series-8-21st-april-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Series 8 – 21st April 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\nwas a beautiful sunny morning with a light N to NE wind 5 – 6mph and Mike T\nused a CB start with the CB near Tektona and the pin out towards the buoy lin.\nThe first mark was X (near to 8), then 5, 4 and back through the start, a nice\neasy course to remember (you would think!). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nev\nwas out in his newly acquired Leader and apparently crew Mike N has also acquired\na new Leader (things are hotting up in the Leader fleet!) Rhys was taking after\nhis old man (less of that) by using a BLACK full rig Laser. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pursuit Race <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\nwere 13 starters and at the end of the first lap the early starters were still\nat the front of the fleet with Ron (Mirror) leading Chris H (Comet), Mike A\n(Lightning) and Bea (Oppie). Ron and Chris managed to stay out in front for the\nwhole 35 minutes, but Ellen & Newton (RS200) slowly snatched 3rd<\/sup>\nfrom Karen (Laser) in the last few minutes of the race. The final positions\nwere \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1st<\/sup>\nRon; 2nd<\/sup> Chris H; 3rd<\/sup> Ellen & Newton; 4th<\/sup>\nKaren; 5th<\/sup> Mike A; 6th<\/sup> Richard S (Laser)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Handicap Race<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dave I, as usual, opted for a nice cup of tea rather than a second race so the fleet was down by one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karen\nwas first back through the line followed by Newton & Ellen, Chris H and Mike\nA, then came the three Lasers of Richard S, James and Adrian. Next along in 8th<\/sup>\nplace were Nev & Mike leading the other two Leaders of Sally & Mike C\nand Dave & Ann with Rhys trapped in the middle of them. Bea was next across\nthe line some distance ahead of Ron. Now you would think that with only three\nmarks that that it would be difficult to go wrong, but Ron found himself about to\nround X only to be told that he had missed the start line out! Credit to him,\nhe turned around and went all the way back up the lake to go through the start\nline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At\nthe end of the second lap the three leaders were in the same order, but James\nhad moved up to 4th<\/sup> place by overtaking Mike A and Richard S. With a\nwind that was dropping, this turned out to be the gain that James did not want,\nas after he had crossed the line Richard and Mike and everyone else behind\nreceived the finish gun!  Rhys had\nmanaged to clear the Leaders to finish 7th<\/sup> just ahead of Adrian, but\nin the Leader battle there was a change of fortune with Dave & Ann coming\nup to 9th<\/sup>, Sally & Mike C in the middle and Nev & Mike down\nto 11th<\/sup>. Bea was 12th<\/sup> and Ron did persevere to finish\njust as everyone was packing up!.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On\nthe third and last lap Karen at the front caught the best of the falling wind\nand got well away from the other three. The final order on the water was \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1st<\/sup>\nKaren; 2nd<\/sup> Chris; 3rd<\/sup> Newton & Ellen; 4th<\/sup>\nJames, then one lap down 5th<\/sup> Richard; 6th<\/sup> Mike A  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On\ncorrected time Karen, Chris and Newton & Ellen keep their positions, but\nMike A moves up to 4th<\/sup> with Richard S 5th<\/sup> and Dave &\nAnn up to 6th<\/sup>. Poor James drops down to 8th<\/sup>, but to rub\nsalt into the wound finishes behind Rhys! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks\nto Mike T and the OOD Team of Alistair S, Colin H, Ian B and Richard C<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally,\na note of apology \u2013 in the last week report I got the name of Ron\u2019s grandson\nincorrect! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sorry\nLevi and well done for crewing for Gramps, he obviously could have done with\nyou this week as well !<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also,\nShiloh did start the second race in his Topper, but retired which I missed, but\nin mitigation so did the OOD Team. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a beautiful sunny morning with a light N to NE wind 5 – 6mph and Mike T used a CB start with the CB near Tektona and the pin out towards the buoy lin. The first mark was X (near to 8), then 5, 4 and back through the start, a nice easy course to remember (you would<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-kQ","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","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=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1293,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}