{"id":395,"date":"2015-03-22T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T21:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2015\/03\/22\/22-march-spring-series-3\/"},"modified":"2015-03-22T21:38:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T21:38:00","slug":"22-march-spring-series-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2015\/03\/22\/22-march-spring-series-3\/","title":{"rendered":"22 March Spring Series 3"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Well it was more like Spring this morning, a beautiful sunny day with a 9 mph ENE wind. The race team of Keith, Katherine, Alistair and Peter set out in the safety boats for Tektona and established base camp. The first beat was down to 6 followed by a run back to 5, a reach down to 9 and then a run up to 4 and on to 3, round 3 and close hauled to 2 and back through the start line.<\/span> <\/p>\n
There were 21 starters and it was good to see Monica back with us and also the appearance of Frantz in his Contender and Dean & Nick in the Laser 2 and Mark & Ellen in a RS 200. Before getting on the water Steve S and Mike C decided to swap boats for the day. Steve has a Solo of his own so would be in his element, but it was Mike C’s first outing in a Laser.<\/span><\/div>\n
There was the usual staggered start with William P (Topper) first away and Steve P (505) last away with everyone else at their allotted times in between.<\/span><\/div>\n
At the end of the first lap William was still leading with Peter S (Byte) 2nd<\/sup>, Monica (Europe) 3rd<\/sup> and Steve S (in Mike C’s Solo) coming up fast in 4th<\/sup> place. Hadey (4.7) was in 5th<\/sup> place with Mike A (Lightning) 6th<\/sup>, Newton & Roz in their Laser 2000 (nice to see you back Roz) 7th<\/sup> and then Nev & Sally (Leader) in 8th<\/sup>.  <\/span>The first Laser through was Richard S who had just caught Peter R in his Enterprise, then there were the five Lasers of Ken, Jon, Mike T, Mark B and James P being closed down by Ian C (Supernova) who had just passed Mike C (who was trying to get to grips with Steve S’s Laser).Then came the late starters of Dean & Nick, Mark & Ellen, Steve P and Frantz.<\/span><\/div>\n
Peter S was leading at the end of the second lap and had managed to round all the marks of the course !  <\/span>Steve S had moved up to 2nd<\/sup> but William was still hanging on to 3rd<\/sup> place with Newton & Roz moving up to 4th  <\/span><\/sup>pushing Monica down to 5th. Nev & Sally had moved up one place to 7th<\/sup>, Mark B was up four places to 10th  <\/span><\/sup>and Ian C was up five places to 11th<\/sup>. Frantz in his Contender had decided to call it a day.<\/span><\/div>\n
On the third lap Jon clipped No 5, did his turns and got to 9 without losing a place! Mike A tried to squeeze between Mark B and No 2, but brushed the buoy, did his turns but he lost two places !<\/span><\/div>\n
On the same lap the boats in the middle of the fleet rounded 9 and the wind completely disappeared and then came up in completely the opposite direction before veering round again to the original direction !<\/span><\/div>\n
By the end of the third lap Steve S had taken the lead with Peter S 2nd<\/sup> and Newton & Roz 3rd<\/sup>. Ian had now moved through from 11th<\/sup> to 4th <\/sup>with Monica still 5th. Richard S was the leading Laser in 6th<\/sup> followed by the Lasers of Jon, Mark and Ken. Peter R had moved up two places to 11th<\/sup> and Mike T and James P were up three places to 12th<\/sup> and 13th<\/sup>. Steve P had moved up two places to 18th<\/sup>.<\/span><\/div>\n
Monica decided three laps were enough and joined Frantz on the bank.<\/span><\/div>\n
At the finish gun Steve S was still in 1st<\/sup> place but Ian had moved up one more place to 2nd<\/sup> with Newton & Roz just pipping Richard for 3rd<\/sup> by about half a boat length. Peter S was 5th<\/sup> and Jon C 6th.  <\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Ken and Mark had scrapped all race and Ken just managed to lead Mark at the gun to finish in 7th<\/sup>.<\/span><\/div>\n
Steve P had moved up two more places but could not quite catch Hadey ahead of him. William managed to stay ahead of Dean & Nick and Mark & Ellen.<\/span><\/div>\n
Final Positions were 1st<\/sup> Steve S (Solo); 2nd<\/sup> Ian C (Supernova), 3rd<\/sup> Newton & Roz (Laser 2000), which must be the first time this year a Laser has not been in the first three !<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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