{"id":599,"date":"2013-07-28T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2013\/07\/28\/wednesday-evenings-sailing-and-a-party\/"},"modified":"2013-07-28T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-28T10:00:00","slug":"wednesday-evenings-sailing-and-a-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2013\/07\/28\/wednesday-evenings-sailing-and-a-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday evenings sailing and a Party!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div><strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-aq_H6BgGvRk\/UfTrtBadxHI\/AAAAAAAAA6M\/J0uQwPdBAAo\/s1600\/JerryBirthday-719574.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-aq_H6BgGvRk\/UfTrtBadxHI\/AAAAAAAAA6M\/J0uQwPdBAAo\/s320\/JerryBirthday-719574.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5905604170095641714\" \/><\/a><\/u><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><u><\/u><\/strong>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>  <strong>As with all other events this season the  Wednesday evening racing is proving very popular with 15 &#8211; 20 boats on the water  most weeks, encouraged by the delicious suppers prepared by Geesje after the  race &#8211; some of us just come for the supper!<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>This week was no exception with some 26  boats racing, in lovely warm sunshine and a good breeze\u00a0&#8211; including young  Haidy, racing for the first time &#8211; well done Haidy.\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>But there was the added attraction of it  being Jerry&#039;s birthday, which of course was an excuse, as if we need it&#8230;..for  a party!! A surprised Jerry arrived to see balloons and bunting all over the  deck and a chorus of Happy Birthday from the assembled company all madly rigging  their boats.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>It was a great course set by Chris and  his team, perfect for the spectators on the deck with the start line from the  shore transit to the 1st mark 4. Everyone was on the line, no one over, a lot of  shouting, with Mark very bravely starting at the shore end on port and crossing  most of the starboard fleet!<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>While the wine flowed on the deck the  racers enjoyed their sail, with Ian finishing 1st, Newton 2nd and Mark  3rd.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>There was a great atmosphere when  everyone joined the birthday boy and all sung Happy Birthday when Ellie&#039;s  spectacular cake appeared &#8211; no doubt how old Jerry is  now&#8230;!!!<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>And just to complete a great evening we  had a surprise visit from Roger, it was great to see him.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><\/strong>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><strong>See more pictures here:<\/p>\n<div>  <a style=\"padding:1px 0px;border:currentColor;width:100%;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/folderview?id=0BzQE_2Aa4EUmSDh1bk9GeEt0SkU&amp;usp=drive_web\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: currentColor;vertical-align: bottom\" src=\"https:\/\/ssl.gstatic.com\/docs\/doclist\/images\/icon_11_collection_list.png\" \/>\u00a0<span dir=\"ltr\">2013 07 24 Gillette 14 and jerry<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><\/strong>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><strong><\/strong>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 As with all other events this season the Wednesday evening racing is proving very popular with 15 &#8211; 20 boats on the water most weeks, encouraged by the delicious suppers prepared by Geesje after the race &#8211; some of us just come for the supper! This week was no exception with some 26 boats racing, in lovely warm sunshine<\/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-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-9F","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","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=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}