{"id":617,"date":"2013-06-06T08:18:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T08:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2013\/06\/06\/spring-pursuit-12-racing-report\/"},"modified":"2013-06-06T08:18:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T08:18:00","slug":"spring-pursuit-12-racing-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2013\/06\/06\/spring-pursuit-12-racing-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Pursuit 12 &#8211; racing report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir='ltr'>\n<div><strong>Another great turn out with 22 boats on the water in  the glorious sun and good breeze. Ken found himself with a reduced OOD Team, but  fortunately Tony and Iain , fresh back from Llandudno &#8211; no not Wales, Cape Town!  &#8211; stepped into the breach and the race was able to be run.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>It was a good course from Tektona, 6s,  8s,5p,9s,4p,2p,1p,S.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>Poor Peter capsized before the start in a freak gust  and got his mast stuck in the mud, then had to retire with a broken tiller &#8211; bad  luck Peter.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>The 2 Otters went off first, Mick minus Bobby, a bit  windy for him and Curits &#8211; he had discovered his Otter during the big clear up  the previous day and wondered whether it was still sailable&#8230;.next came Bob and  Jon in their Solos, though Monica starting a minute behind them, wondered where  they had gone as she got to the first Mark before them&#8230;..Jon got becalmed way  behind the port bias start line and poor Bob got a bang on the head from his  boom and was seeing stars&#8230;.not the 1st mark&#8230;..!!! Then all the Lasers,  Adrian in his Viago&nbsp;and last off the 505.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>It was a shifty wind with some fetches instead of  beats and some great reaches.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>Monica held off Dave briefly, Chris took a little  longer to get through her&nbsp;but Nick overtook the Europe in the last few  seconds of the race!!!<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>Finishing places 1st Dave, 2nd Chris, 3rd  Nick.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><strong>The afternoon saw Mike and Sally manning the safety  boat, with lots of people coming down for a BBQ, and afternoon sail in perfect  conditions, wind and sun.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another great turn out with 22 boats on the water in the glorious sun and good breeze. Ken found himself with a reduced OOD Team, but fortunately Tony and Iain , fresh back from Llandudno &#8211; no not Wales, Cape Town! &#8211; stepped into the breach and the race was able to be run. It was a good course from<\/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-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-9X","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617","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=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}