{"id":398,"date":"2015-03-18T20:34:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T20:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2015\/03\/18\/08-march-spring-pursuit-1\/"},"modified":"2015-03-18T20:34:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T20:34:00","slug":"08-march-spring-pursuit-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2015\/03\/18\/08-march-spring-pursuit-1\/","title":{"rendered":"08 March Spring Pursuit 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Simon B set a beat up to 3 then back along the buoy line to 4, towards the island and round 9, across to 2 then back towards the island and around 1 finishing the course round 6 and 7. <\/span><\/div>\n
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There were 23 starters but being a pursuit race they did not all go off together and first away were William P and William D in their Toppers followed four minutes later by Curtis in his Otter (yes an Otter on the lake !), two  <\/span>minutes later John C  <\/span>went off in his Topaz and then three and a half minutes after that by Hadey (4.7). Mike & Sally (Leader) were next away followed one and a half minutes later by Mike C (Solo) and the two Radials of John W and Steve S. Then it was the turn of Newton & Ellen (Laser 2000) to set off with Peter R (Enterprise) following one minute later and the pack of 11 Lasers starting one and a half minutes after Peter and finally Ian C another one and half minutes after the Laser pack.  <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
James P got pushed the wrong side of the start mark by David C (legally) (note for those that don’t know, you can’t claim water at the start mark). James then turned hit someone else and ended up doing a 720. Not the best of starts and his head must have been spinning by the time he got going. <\/span>(Not to worry \u2013 he’s quite used to that !).<\/span><\/div>\n
Mike and Sally somehow managed to capsize gybing at 4, some technical problem with the sheets ! <\/span>always a good idea to blame the equipment, it never answers back. <\/span><\/div>\n
At the end of the first lap William P was still in the lead with Curtis 2nd<\/sup> and John C 3rd<\/sup> but Steve S in his Radial was closing in and had just passed Hadey to take 4th<\/sup> place from her.<\/span><\/div>\n
By the end of the second lap Curtis had taken the lead, William P was still in 2nd <\/sup> <\/span>but David C in the first of the Lasers had moved up to 3rd<\/sup>  <\/span>pushing Steve S to 4th<\/sup> with Jon coming up to 5th<\/sup>.<\/span><\/div>\n
At the end of the third lap and approaching the full time whistle David C was 1st<\/sup>, Jon C 2nd<\/sup> and Newton & Ellen had moved up to 3rd<\/sup> and Ian C to 4th<\/sup>.  <\/span>The Lasers had come through and occupied the middle of the fleet and were having a terrific battle. <\/span><\/div>\n
Ian eventually caught Newton & Ellen with about 5 minutes to go and called for water at 9, but he got hit by a gust and promptly capsized right at the mark. Newton & Ellen managed to slip through the gap and left him behind. Steve S and Richard S in close battle behind thought that that this was their chance but Ian got the boat up quickly, (he has had lots of practice) and kept his place<\/span><\/div>\n
At the hooter the final positions were 1st<\/sup> David C; 2nd<\/sup> Jon C; 3rd<\/sup> Newton & Ellen; 4th<\/sup> Ian C; 5th<\/sup> Steve S and 6th<\/sup> Richard S.     <\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Simon B set a beat up to 3 then back along the buoy line to 4, towards the island and round 9, across to 2 then back towards the island and around 1 finishing the course round 6 and 7.   There were 23 starters but being a pursuit race they did not all go off together and first away<\/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-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-6q","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","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=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}