{"id":622,"date":"2013-05-16T08:46:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T08:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2013\/05\/16\/spring-pursuit-9-racing-report\/"},"modified":"2013-05-16T08:46:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T08:46:00","slug":"spring-pursuit-9-racing-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2013\/05\/16\/spring-pursuit-9-racing-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Pursuit 9 &#8211; Racing Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir='ltr'>\n<div>Yet another windy day, but Adrian and his team set a good  course for the 14 starters, 5p,2s,4s,6s,9p,7s. There was some &#8216;umming and  aaring&#8217;&nbsp;in the dinghy park as to what sails to use,  most of the Lasers chose radial sails, whether to reef etc. Monica teamed up with  Dave P in his reefed Wayfarer and had a great sail, while Hugh forsook his Byte&nbsp; to crew Newton in his big boat&nbsp;with some great spinnaker work. Lynne  and Steve were just content to stay upright &#8211; no spinnaker for  them!!<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Poor Mike in his Solo didn&#8217;t even make the start and retired  after a nasty capsize, while Dave L had to be pulled out of the trees with his  upturned Laser.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Paul and Nev broke their main halliard 2 minutes before the end  of the race, trying to put on more kicker, but survived and didn&#8217;t lose a  place.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>There were murmurings in the dinghy park, after  the&nbsp;race,&nbsp;that more reaches would have been better, but the wind was  very shifty as well as strong<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Dave got through Chris to finish 1st,&nbsp; Chris 2nd  and&nbsp;Ian 3rd.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The afternoon saw 3 novice sailors out in Picos, being  assisted by Steve&nbsp;in another Pico and Phil in the safety boat &#8211; excellent  progress was made with no capsizes &#8211; well done guys!!&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another windy day, but Adrian and his team set a good course for the 14 starters, 5p,2s,4s,6s,9p,7s. There was some &#8216;umming and aaring&#8217;&nbsp;in the dinghy park as to what sails to use, most of the Lasers chose radial sails, whether to reef etc. Monica teamed up with Dave P in his reefed Wayfarer and had a great sail, while<\/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-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-a2","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","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=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}