We\njoined clubs from all over the UK and other parts of the world to compete in\nthe annual Bart\u2019s Bash race, an event set up in memory of Andrew Simpson to\nraise money to enable disabled and disadvantaged children to go sailing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\nwas a beautiful morning with light WSW wind about 2-5 mph for the Juniors race\nand picking up slightly to 3-8 mph for the adults. The sun shone and the\ntemperature was in the mid- twenties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Junior\u2019s\nRace<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n James\nused the normal flagpole start with a first beat to A (past 5 on the buoy line)\nthen 9, 5, 6, 7 and back through the start. There were 11 starters and Thomas M\n(Radial) was first back through the start line followed by Rhys (4.7) and Emily\n(Topper). Then there was quite a gap back to the rest of the fleet which was\nled by Phoebe (Oppie) in 4th<\/sup> place and Lucy (Topper) in 5th<\/sup>.\nThe two Oppies of Rohan and Ben came through the line close together and they\nwere followed by Evie in a Pico, Pippa in a Topper and then Izzy and another\nOppie (who unfortunately had not signed in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The\nfirst three were sent round for a second lap, which was bad luck for them as\nthe wind died away and it took them considerably longer to complete the second\nlap than it had taken for the first lap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The\nfirst six on the water were \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1st<\/sup>\nThomas; 2nd<\/sup> Rhys; 3rd<\/sup> Emily; 4th<\/sup> Phoebe; 5th<\/sup>\nLucy; 6th<\/sup> Rohan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On\ncorrected time this changes to 1st<\/sup> Phoebe; 2nd<\/sup> Rhys; 3rd<\/sup>\nEmily; 4th<\/sup> Lucy; 5th<\/sup> Thomas<\/p>\n\n\n\n Well\ndone to all of you for competing in difficult light wind conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Adult\u2019s\nRace<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n There\nwas a bit of a delay before the adults could get away as James wrestled with\nthe problem of a constantly shifting wind. In fact, he had two different\ncourses on the race sheet before settling on a third option! He finally decided\nthat he would change the course and change the start line. He then used a\ncommittee boat start parallel to the bank and going straight out to A then 9, 4,\n2, 5, 6, 7 and back through the start. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The\nwind was a bit better for the adults and Ralph (Laser) was first back across\nthe line one minute ahead of Sam & Newton (RS 200) followed 30 seconds\nlater by Jess in her Laser. After 2 minutes Mike A (Lightning) crossed in 4th<\/sup>\nplace not far ahead of Dean & Nick (Vago), Alistair S (Laser) and Thomas\n(Laser). Nev (Comet) and Joe (Laser) came through battling for 8th<\/sup>\nplace and they were about a minute ahead of Peter R (s\/h Enterprise). Then\nalong came the Mirrors of Ron on his own and Jewels with little Tahlia as crew,\nfollowed 30 seconds later by Simon B with son James in the RSC Sport 14 (considerably\nlower Tech than his usual Blaze). Rhys and Emily were next renewing their\nbattle from the first race with Rick and Lottie in Lasers just behind them.\nBringing up the rear of the fleet were Paul W (flying an enormous red pennant \u2013\nperhaps that\u2019s a keep clear signal!) and David Knight in his Laser 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The\nsecond lap saw the first three away and clear, but Peter R had fired up his\nbooster and gained six places to move up to 4th.<\/sup>Thomasmoved\nup to 6th<\/sup> by passing Alistair and Dean & Nick retired from 5th<\/sup>\nposition, Joe got past Nev to move up to 7th<\/sup> place and Rick also\nfired up his engines and gained six places to move to 9th<\/sup> . Emily\npassed Rhys, Simon and Jewels to move up to 12th<\/sup> place and further\nback Lottie gained a place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n At\nthe end of the third and last Ralph finished 1st<\/sup> with Sam &\nNewton in 2nd<\/sup> place and Peter just pipped Jess for 3rd<\/sup>\nspot. Joe passed Thomas and Mike to take 5th<\/sup> and lower down the\norder Simon gained four places, Rhys repassed Emily and Paul W got past Lottie.\nThe final order on the water was \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1st<\/sup>\nRalph; 2nd<\/sup> Sam & Newton; 3rd<\/sup> Peter; 4th<\/sup>\nJess: 5th<\/sup> Joe; 6th<\/sup> Mike A<\/p>\n\n\n\n On\ncorrected time the order is 1st<\/sup> Ron; 2nd<\/sup> Jewels; 3rd<\/sup>\nRalph; 4th<\/sup> Peter; 5th<\/sup> Jess; 6th<\/sup> Sam &\nNewton <\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks\nto James and the OOD Team of Aileen M, Bea P, Bill C, Brian M, Gordon C, Richard\nH and Richard M. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Following\nthe racing Barbara cooked sausages and burgers and there were tables of cakes\nmade by Ann Day, Suzi Primrose, Sam Shears and Nick Heaven (who had also\nbrought down games including tossing the\nhorse shoes (thought there would be a\ntechnical name for that but on looking on the web, it is called Tossing\nHorseshoes \u2013 makes sense) <\/p>\n\n\n\n After\na bite to eat the boat building began in earnest. Brian had brought his usual\nkit for the younger sailors to build their own boat from plastic bottles, bits\nor wood and other things. Brian and Richard (of course) could not resist\nbuilding their own craft to also compete. Brian and Richard then released the\ncraft from the safety boats with James on the bank as adjudicator. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As far as we can remember (and not including\nparental assistance!), Molly Steele won the competition against boats built by Jemima\nDay, Joe Day, Izzy Heaven, Bea Primrose, Rhys Primrose, Emily Shears and Phoebe\nShears. There was one other who left early, but their name escapes us along\nwith a lot of other things these days! With the lovely weather and 30 boats racing (11\nJuniors and 19 Adults) and burgers, cakes and messing about it was a really\ngood day. Well done to everyone who took part and helped out to make it a\nspecial day for this year\u2019s Barts Bash. We joined clubs from all over the UK and other parts of the world to compete in the annual Bart\u2019s Bash race, an event set up in memory of Andrew Simpson to raise money to enable disabled and disadvantaged children to go sailing. It was a beautiful morning with light WSW wind about 2-5 mph for the Juniors race and<\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-no","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450","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=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1451,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions\/1451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHowever, not forgetting the adults who were\ndisqualified (Richard and Brian Moore!) fun was had by all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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