{"id":391,"date":"2015-03-29T20:35:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T20:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2015\/03\/29\/29-march-spring-series-4\/"},"modified":"2015-03-29T20:35:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T20:35:00","slug":"29-march-spring-series-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2015\/03\/29\/29-march-spring-series-4\/","title":{"rendered":"29 March Spring Series 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt\">\n<div><span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height: normal\"><span style='font-family: \"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";font-size: 10pt'>This was a really windy morning, 24 -28 mph Westerly with gusts of up to 50 mph which restricted the starters to only 10 boats. Peter S set a long beat down to 4 and then across to 9, down to 3 then back to 1, up to 5 on the buoy line, along to 6 and finally 7.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height: normal\"><span style='font-family: \"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";font-size: 10pt'>Dave L decided to team up with Hugh in his Leader and others decided to watch from the bank !<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height: normal\"><span style='font-family: \"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";font-size: 10pt'>At the end of the first lap Steve P led Hadey, both in 4.7s, with Newton &amp; Ellen (Laser 2000) in 3<sup>rd<\/sup> with high wind ace Jon 4<sup>th<\/sup>, Curtis 5<sup>th<\/sup>, Adrian 6<sup>th<\/sup> and James P 7<sup>th<\/sup> all in Lasers. Hugh &amp; Dave L had come to grief in the Leader and impaled the mast, unfortunately bending it in the process. William managed the first two marks before capsizing his Topper and retiring and Ken P also decided to call it a day before the end of the lap.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height: normal\"><span style='font-family: \"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";font-size: 10pt'>On the second lap Newton &amp; Ellen also embedded their mast in the mud and that was the end of their race. When Ellen was exhausted and sitting on the centreboard for the third time she looked down the lake and every single boat was capsized ! James even managed to get from 4 to 9 with his Laser upside down and that was the end of his race ! Steve P was still in the lead but Jon had come through to 2<sup>nd<\/sup> with Hadey 3<sup>rd<\/sup> and Curtis and Adrian 4<sup>th<\/sup> and 5<sup>th<\/sup>. <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height: normal\"><span style='font-family: \"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";font-size: 10pt'>Only three boats actually completed the third lap and at the gun Jon took the victory with Steve 2<sup>nd<\/sup> and Hadey 3<sup>rd <\/sup>with Curtis and Adrian still 4<sup>th<\/sup> and 5<sup>th<\/sup> <span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height: normal\"><span style='font-family: \"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";font-size: 10pt'>Well done to all the brave souls who ventured out, especially young William and Hadey and a big thank you to the OOD team who did a good job in difficult and arduous conditions.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height: normal\"><span style='font-family: \"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";font-size: 10pt'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height: normal\"><span style='font-family: \"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";font-size: 10pt'>This was actually more of a duathlon with sailing and swimming in place of the usual cycling and running! Perhaps we should put this forward as an event for Rio in 2016.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a really windy morning, 24 -28 mph Westerly with gusts of up to 50 mph which restricted the starters to only 10 boats. Peter S set a long beat down to 4 and then across to 9, down to 3 then back to 1, up to 5 on the buoy line, along to 6 and finally 7. 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