{"id":486,"date":"2014-07-16T06:20:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2014\/07\/16\/pink-fleet-and-pirates-report\/"},"modified":"2014-07-16T06:20:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T06:20:00","slug":"pink-fleet-and-pirates-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2014\/07\/16\/pink-fleet-and-pirates-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink Fleet and Pirates Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir='ltr'>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><strong>There was a wonderful turn out for the   race, all manner of boats, Toppers, Lasers, etc -17 in all &#8211; some 25+ Pinkies   took to the water after a hearty breakfast cooked by Paul, the Pink Fleet   chef&#8230;.despite a plumbing crisis at home &#8211; thank you so much Paul.    <\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>Monica and Ian, aided by James and Pat   set a little weed free course at the bottom of the lake in the very little   wind, using marks 2, 3 and 2 training marks&#8230;.all a little confusing!!    <\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>Tracey and Carole in the Leader were   going really well, finding the puffs of wind as were Alice in her Laser, while   the youngsters in the Toppers, William, &#8216;birthday boy&#8217;, Rhys, Joe, Amy P,   WendyP, Jack were all racing like pros!<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>Brian with Louise in their Ent managed   to hit the anchored safety boat! The small course kept the fleet together with   some close racing. Jack dumped his Dad from his Topper&#8230;&#8230;.later to be   picked up by Suzanne as he had got too hot sitting in the safety   boat&#8230;..<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>The leading boat had to do turns after   rounding each mark, not popular with Alice and Mike&#8230;..<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>But the outstanding winner of the Pink   Fleet cup was Nathalie, sailing a Pico for the 1st time in 20yrs&#8230;.well done   Nathalie, who later went on to show off her wind surfing   skills&#8230;.!<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>All the while Bernadette sat on the   shore in the sun reading her book&#8230;..while Nina and Kea had fun on the   water&#8230;.good to see them back.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>A quick break off the water for lunch   then the Pirates started arriving for their afternoon fun.   Carole joined Gary in the &#8216;rubber duck&#8217; along with 2 other safety boats and   their crew, and off they all sailed to the end of the lake to hunt for   treasure in true Pirate fashion&#8230;&#8230;<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>As always there was a lot of capsizing   and a lot of fun.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>The afternoon ended with a round of   Happy Birthday to William and a slice of the scrummy, chocolate, chocolate and   more chocolate cake&#8230;.delicious Suzi.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>A Big Thank You to everyone who helped   during the day.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><strong>NB. The Pink Fleet BBQ is August   9th, after the 1100 race, no breakfast. Contact Paul \/ Jan <a title=\"mailto:paul.hearn@jeoluk.com\" href=\"mailto:paul.hearn@jeoluk.com\">paul.hearn@jeoluk.com<\/a>&nbsp;\/    <a title=\"mailto:jan.hearn@me.com\" href=\"mailto:jan.hearn@me.com\">jan.hearn@me.com<\/a>&nbsp;for tickets, numbers   limited.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; There was a wonderful turn out for the race, all manner of boats, Toppers, Lasers, etc -17 in all &#8211; some 25+ Pinkies took to the water after a hearty breakfast cooked by Paul, the Pink Fleet chef&#8230;.despite a plumbing crisis at home &#8211; thank you so much Paul. Monica and Ian, aided by James and Pat set a<\/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-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-7Q","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","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=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}