{"id":250,"date":"2016-03-19T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2016\/03\/19\/spring-series-1-march-13th\/"},"modified":"2016-03-19T17:07:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T17:07:00","slug":"spring-series-1-march-13th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2016\/03\/19\/spring-series-1-march-13th\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Series 1 – March 13th"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Spring Pursuit 1 – March 13th<\/sup><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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It was a light breeze for the first race of the 2016 Spring Series and Mike N set the course. Unfortunately this Jolly Sailor was at home looking after the Commander in Chief and the course was not recorded on the race sheet, but I am sure the 16 starters knew where they were going (well most of them anyway!)<\/span><\/div>\n
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Jon (Laser) was first back through the start followed by Peter R in his Enterprise, Chris (Comet), Nev & Sally (Leader) and Newton & Scott(RS200). Steve S (Laser) came through in 6th<\/sup> place followed by a gaggle of closely bunched boats with Adrian (Rooster) 7th<\/sup>, Dave I (Radial) 8th<\/sup>, Mark B (Laser) 9th<\/sup>, Curtis (Laser) 10th<\/sup> and Mick G (Otter) 11th<\/sup>. Dave L (Laser) was slightly further back in 12th<\/sup> and then there was quite a gap back to Peter S (Byte),Alistair, Rick and John W in Lasers.<\/span><\/div>\n
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By the second lap Newton & Scott had moved up three places to 2nd<\/sup>,  but the next three boats had kept their relative positions. Steve S had moved past Nev & Sally into 5th<\/sup> place and Mark B had moved up two places to 7th<\/sup>. Dave L had moved up one place to 11th<\/sup> and John W was up to 12th<\/sup>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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At the finish gun there were no further changes, so the final positions were \u2013 <\/span><\/div>\n
1st<\/sup> Jon – Laser; 2nd<\/sup> Newton & Scott- RS200; 3rd<\/sup> Peter R- Enterprise; 4th<\/sup> Chris H- Comet; 5th<\/sup> Steve S- Laser; 6th<\/sup> Nev & Sally- Leader.<\/span><\/div>\n
What a great mix of boats in the top six !<\/span><\/div>\n
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Spring Handicap 1 \u2013 March 13th<\/sup><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Mick G decided to rest his Otter after the Pursuit, so there were 15 starters, but Curtis and Dave I disappeared on the first lap (reasons unknown).<\/span><\/div>\n
Newton & Scott led at the line but Adrian, Jon and Steve S were not far behind. Next came a group of Lasers with Rick in 5th<\/sup> just ahead of Dave L, Mark B and John W, although Peter S got the same time as John W. Chris H was next in 10th<\/sup> just ahead of Alistair S and Nev & Sally with Peter R strangely lagging behind after his sterling performance in the Pursuit.  <\/span><\/div>\n
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By the end of the second lap Adrian was King of the Roost, pushing Newton & Scott down to 2nd<\/sup>, but crossing the line with exactly the same time as Jon. Steve S was still 4th<\/sup> but Dave L had gained a place to 5th<\/sup>. John W was up two places to 6th<\/sup> with Mark B 7th<\/sup> and Rick 8th<\/sup> and Nev & Sally up three places to 9th<\/sup>. Peter R had gained three places to 10th<\/sup>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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After three laps the first five had maintained their positions but Mark had moved up one place to 6th <\/sup>and Alistair S had moved up three places to 9th.Rick and Peter R had both retired, but again reasons unknown.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The only change in position at the gun was that Peter S had moved up one place by passing Alistair.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The final positions on the water were \u2013 <\/span><\/div>\n
1st<\/sup> Adrian; 2nd<\/sup> Newton & Scott; 3rd<\/sup> Jon; 4th<\/sup> Steve S; 5th<\/sup> Dave L ; 6th<\/sup> Mark B.<\/span><\/div>\n
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On handicap the positions will change considerably with Adrian dropping to 4th<\/sup> and Chris and Peter S taking 5th<\/sup> and 6th<\/sup> from the Lasers of Dave and Mark.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Thanks to Mike N and his OOD Team of Mike C, Bill C, Al E and Matt R for running the races.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Spring Pursuit 1 – March 13th   It was a light breeze for the first race of the 2016 Spring Series and Mike N set the course. Unfortunately this Jolly Sailor was at home looking after the Commander in Chief and the course was not recorded on the race sheet, but I am sure the 16 starters knew where they<\/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-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-42","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","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=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}