{"id":367,"date":"2015-05-25T20:45:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2015\/05\/25\/25-may-whitsun-pennant\/"},"modified":"2015-05-25T20:45:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T20:45:00","slug":"25-may-whitsun-pennant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2015\/05\/25\/25-may-whitsun-pennant\/","title":{"rendered":"25 May Whitsun Pennant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:16px\">\n<div><span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Paul R used a Tektona start and with a 9 mph NW wind set a first beat  straight up to 4 on the buoy line, then back down to 2 across to 9 and on to 8,  turn left (or perhaps that should be hard to port) up to 5 then down to 1 and  back up through the start.<\/div>\n<div>    <\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height: normal\">There were 12 starters and welcome to James and William Hawkins.  Richard S kindly woke Mike A up just before the start with a T-bone (no \u2013 not a  steak !)<\/div>\n<div>    <\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height: normal\">There was a slight traffic jam at the first mark, but everyone  eventually got round.<\/div>\n<div>    <\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height: normal\">David C (Laser) led at the end of the first lap with the Lasers of  Richard S and Karen crossing the line together in joint 2<sup>nd<\/sup> place  with Jon also in a Laser in 4<sup>th <\/sup>place.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Monica (Europe) was right up with the leading  Lasers in 5<sup>th<\/sup> place and then there was a slight gap back to Newton  &amp; Ellen (RS200) in 6<sup>th<\/sup>. Then there was a bigger gap back to Mike  A (Lightning) and Mike C (Solo) who were followed by Chris M &amp; lady friend <span>&nbsp;<\/span>in his 420 (apologies but no name was entered  on the<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Declaration Sheet). Tracey &amp;  Amy were next along in their Leader just ahead of James H (Laser) and William H  (Topper).<\/div>\n<div>    <\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height: normal\">By the second lap Newton &amp; Ellen had come through from 6<sup>th<\/sup>  to 3<sup>rd<\/sup> place and the only other mover (in the right direction) was  James H who had gained two places.<\/div>\n<div>    <\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height: normal\">Lap 3 and Newton &amp; Ellen had passed Karen to take 2<sup>nd<\/sup>  place and Richard S who had slipped to 6<sup>th<\/sup> on the second lap was now  up to 4<sup>th<\/sup>. The rest of the fleet retained their positions.<\/div>\n<div>    <\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height: normal\">At the end of Lap 4 Chris &amp; lady friend had decided to retire from  the fray, which moved everyone below them up one place, but Tracey &amp; Amy  went one better by passing James.<\/div>\n<div>    <\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height: normal\">The fifth lap was the last and there was only one change in position as  James had repassed Tracey &amp; Amy. They had been together the whole of the  race and enjoyed a great tussle.<\/div>\n<div>    <\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height: normal\">The final positions on the water were 1<sup>st<\/sup> David C; 2<sup>nd<\/sup>  Newton &amp; Ellen; 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Karen; 4<sup>th<\/sup> Richards S; 5<sup>th<\/sup>  Jon; 6<sup>th<\/sup> Monica.<\/div>\n<div>    <\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height: normal\">The only change on handicap is likely to be Monica leapfrogging Jon.<\/div>\n<div>    <\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height: normal\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>    <\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height: normal\" dir=\"ltr\">Thanks to Paul R and his OOD team Carol M, Hadey, Nev R, Bill C and  Paul W. <\/div>\n<div>    <b><var><\/var><\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul R used a Tektona start and with a 9 mph NW wind set a first beat straight up to 4 on the buoy line, then back down to 2 across to 9 and on to 8, turn left (or perhaps that should be hard to port) up to 5 then down to 1 and back up through the start.<\/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-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-5V","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","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=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}