{"id":264,"date":"2016-02-07T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2016\/02\/07\/7th-february-frostbite-12\/"},"modified":"2016-02-07T18:23:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T18:23:00","slug":"7th-february-frostbite-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2016\/02\/07\/7th-february-frostbite-12\/","title":{"rendered":"7th February Frostbite 12"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A bit frisky this morning with a 16 mph South Westerly and some stronger gusts coming through.<\/span><\/div>\n
David C set the first beat down to 4P then 2P, 5S, 8S, 9S, 6S, 7S and back through the start.<\/span><\/div>\n
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There were 11 starters, Alistair S rigged his Laser with a furled main sail but did not actually start. Not surprising as it is difficult to get the furling tight enough to give a decent sail shape.<\/span><\/div>\n
All of the other Lasers were flying Radials although many were nominally sailing off the full handicap rating.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Ian C (Supernova) was first back through the start line closely followed by Mark (Laser). Hadey (4.7) was going well and came through in 3rd<\/sup> place with Curtis (Radial) 4th<\/sup> and Richard S (Laser) 5th<\/sup>.  Then there was then a gap back to Mike A (Laser) in 6th<\/sup> who was closely followed by Chris H (Comet). Then there was another gap back to Adrian (Vago) and an even greater gap back to Steve P (Radial). Steve S had his mast break and retired as did Hugh (who feared for the welfare of his new boat!)<\/span><\/div>\n
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Ian still led at the end of the second lap, but Richard S had moved up to 2nd with Hadey 3rd<\/sup>, Curtis 4th<\/sup>  and Mark who had a bit of an incident near the buoy line down to 5th<\/sup>. Mike A and Chris H were still together in 6th<\/sup> and 7th<\/sup> places. On this lap we lost Adrian and Steve both capsized at different points.<\/span><\/div>\n
Steve had capsized eight times but kept going until he finally inverted his boat completely at No 7.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The third lap leaders were the same three boats with Mark making up ground (or should that be water!) in 4th<\/sup> place. Curtis had disappeared after close contact with the bank lifted his rudder off the pintles. <\/span><\/div>\n
Mike A, after four capsizes including a double, decided to retire when he saw the leaders starting a fourth lap and thought that was not for him. Chris H received the finish gun at the end of this lap.<\/span><\/div>\n
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On the fourth lap Ian capsized at No 5 and then so did Richard. This allowed Mark to come steaming through and he crossed the line in 1st<\/sup> place with Richard recovering to 2nd<\/sup> and Ian crossed in 3rd<\/sup> with Hadey, a very creditable 4th<\/sup>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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So the final positions on the water were \u2013<\/span><\/div>\n
1st<\/sup> Mark; 2nd<\/sup> Richard; 3rd<\/sup> Ian; 4th<\/sup> Hadey; 5th<\/sup> Chris (one lap down)<\/span><\/div>\n
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On handicap it looks as if Hadey was close enough to take the overall victory, so well done Hadey.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Thanks to David C and the OOD Team, Jon, Mark, Sam and David and to Roland L and Hugh who went out in another rescue boat.<\/span><\/div>\n
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A bit frisky this morning with a 16 mph South Westerly and some stronger gusts coming through. David C set the first beat down to 4P then 2P, 5S, 8S, 9S, 6S, 7S and back through the start.   There were 11 starters, Alistair S rigged his Laser with a furled main sail but did not actually start. Not surprising<\/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-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-4g","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","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=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}