{"id":614,"date":"2013-06-16T20:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2013\/06\/16\/training-report-15th-june\/"},"modified":"2013-06-16T20:21:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T20:21:00","slug":"training-report-15th-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2013\/06\/16\/training-report-15th-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Training Report 15th June"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir='ltr'>\n<div><strong><u>RYA Training&nbsp;Course 15th June,  Stage 1 and Level 1.<\/u><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>What a daunting prospect for the  trainers and trainees alike &#8211; 15mph winds with gusts of  29!!!<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>After the initial briefings from Steve  and Dave, our intrepid trainees were introduced to Picos, Toppers and Dave&#8217;s  ever faithful Wayfarer. The youngsters took to the water in Picos with Alice and  Sylvia helming and went for an exhilarating thrash back and forth, watched over  closely by Brian and Richard in the safety boats. Everyone came in soaked, even  those who had not capsized, but thrilled with the experience. After the lunch  break and watching the video, it was the turn of the trainees to take the helm,  with Alice, Sylvia and Grace taking the youngsters out and then letting them  have a go at helming &#8211; inevitably there were some capsizes, but no  tears!!<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>After another&nbsp;spell of rain and  strong winds, the sun came out and everyone had a go at sailing, mostly in the  reefed Picos. The adults doing really well and surprising  themselves!!<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>A good, if exhausting, day was had by  all and everyone&nbsp;left, happy to be returning for day 2 next Sat, clutching  their Start Sailing books &#8211; compulsory bedtime reading for the next  week.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>Many thanks to all the instructors,  especially Steve who sailed close to the shore, illustrating how to tack, how to  come ashore and how&nbsp;NOT to come ashore&#8230;very  helpful.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>Also thanks to our &#8216;gophers&#8217; who arrived  and left at intervals through out the day, helping in the galley and on the  shore.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RYA Training&nbsp;Course 15th June, Stage 1 and Level 1. What a daunting prospect for the trainers and trainees alike &#8211; 15mph winds with gusts of 29!!! After the initial briefings from Steve and Dave, our intrepid trainees were introduced to Picos, Toppers and Dave&#8217;s ever faithful Wayfarer. The youngsters took to the water in Picos with Alice and Sylvia helming<\/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-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-9U","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","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=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}