{"id":223,"date":"2016-05-29T17:57:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2016\/05\/29\/spring-series-11-29th-may-2016\/"},"modified":"2016-05-29T17:57:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-29T17:57:00","slug":"spring-series-11-29th-may-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2016\/05\/29\/spring-series-11-29th-may-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Series 11 – 29th May 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It was good to see another new sailor joining the racing fleet, so welcome to Jess Bertram for her first race at RSC.   <\/div>\n
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With a NE wind of 10mph forecast to rise to 13 mph James used an Island start with a first beat to X (about hallway between 5 and 6, but in the middle of the lake), then 5p, 8s, 4p, 3p, 2p and back through the start.<\/span><\/div>\n
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There were 23 starters for this race and after one lap early starter William P (Topper) was still leading from his fellow Topper sailor Ben H. Gordon P (Mirror) came through in 3rd<\/sup> with John C (Topaz) 4th<\/sup> being caught by Jess B(Radial) who had just passed Chris A (Solo).<\/span><\/div>\n
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By the second lap Karen (Laser) had come to the front and Jess had moved up to 2nd<\/sup> with Richard S (Laser) 3rd<\/sup>, Ellen & Newton (RS200 4th<\/sup>, Mark B (Laser) 5th<\/sup> and Jon (Laser) 6th<\/sup>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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At the gun these first six boats had maintained their positions.<\/span><\/div>\n
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There was an interesting incident just before the finish gun when Chris A fouled the mark and started to do his penalty turn just as the gun went and just as he collided with Mike A coming up to the mark.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The question is whether you have to do penalty turns after the finish gun has sounded in a pursuit race and how would you decide finishing positions?  <\/span>Would be interested to hear from anyone who knows the answer!<\/span><\/div>\n
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Dave I (Radial) and John C decided to sit this one out as usual, but the appearance of David C and Richard H, both in Lasers meant that the field remained at 23 for the second race of the day.<\/span><\/div>\n
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David C led at the end of the first lap followed closely by Jon C and this was to be the pattern for the whole of the race. Karen came through in 3rd<\/sup> with Mark 4th<\/sup>, Newton & Ellen 5th<\/sup> and Adrian (Rooster) 6th<\/sup>. There was a peculiar collision between Peter R (Enterprise) and Dave & Ann L (Leader) on the way down to No 8. It looked as if the boats had contracted Spring fever and had started to perform a graceful courtship dance locked together and pirouetting around one another! Peter retired after this unfortunate coupling, not sure if he suffered some damage or could not stand the passion !<\/span><\/div>\n
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At the end of the second lap the only change in the leading boats was Newton & Ellen taking 4th<\/sup> place form Mark. There was a packed midfield of Lasers enjoying some close sailing, but the slower boats of Chris A (Solo), Mike A (Lightning) and Chris H (Comet) were getting left behind in the freshening breeze.<\/span><\/div>\n
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By the third lap Adrian had moved up to 4th<\/sup> pushing Mark down to 6th<\/sup> and Richards S had gained three places to move up to 7th<\/sup> just in front of Jess in 8th<\/sup>. In the middle of the fleet, the Lasers of Rod, John H and Dave P were having a good battle with Paul H (Supernova) for 9th<\/sup> to 12th<\/sup> places. Not far behind them there was another good tussle between Steve P (Laser) and Rick (Laser) and then slightly further back Richard H and Gareth D, both in Lasers, were having their own battle.. Dave & Ann had to retire as their Leader had obviously over-exerted itself in the dancing and could not take any more!<\/span><\/div>\n
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At the end of the fourth lap the leading boats had shuffled position slightly with Adrian moving up another place to 3rd<\/sup> and Richard up two places to 5th<\/sup>. John H had gained two places to move up to 8th<\/sup>, but Rod and Jess crossed the line together in joint 9th<\/sup>. The only other mover was Paul H who gained a place to move to 11th<\/sup>. William and Ben who had been having a good battle in their Toppers received the gun at the end of this lap with William just coming out on top.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The last and fifth lap saw no change in the first four, but Newton & Ellen managed to get past Richard and Mark to move up to 5th<\/sup>. Jess had managed to shake off Rod and get past John H to move up to 8th<\/sup> and Steve P had got the better of Dave P and Rick to move up to 12th<\/sup>, but there were no other changes in position.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Final positions on the water were \u2013<\/span><\/div>\n
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1st<\/sup> David C; 2nd<\/sup> Jon C; 3rd<\/sup> Adrian; 4th<\/sup> Karen; 5th<\/sup> Newton & Ellen, 6th<\/sup> Richard S<\/span><\/div>\n
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On handicap Jess in her Radial should take 3rd<\/sup> place with Adrian dropping out of the top six.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Thanks to James and the OOD team of Dean & Nick J, Chris S and John W.<\/span><\/div>\n
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It was good to see another new sailor joining the racing fleet, so welcome to Jess Bertram for her first race at RSC.   With a NE wind of 10mph forecast to rise to 13 mph James used an Island start with a first beat to X (about hallway between 5 and 6, but in the middle of the lake), then<\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-3B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","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=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}