{"id":628,"date":"2013-05-07T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T19:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2013\/05\/07\/gillette-2-racing-report\/"},"modified":"2013-05-07T19:21:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T19:21:00","slug":"gillette-2-racing-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/2013\/05\/07\/gillette-2-racing-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Gillette 2 &#8211; racing report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-ccl-_FkXN1I\/UYlUS1sgZpI\/AAAAAAAAAxY\/JiZ-8pSNQNo\/s1600\/PTDC0068-706754.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-ccl-_FkXN1I\/UYlUS1sgZpI\/AAAAAAAAAxY\/JiZ-8pSNQNo\/s320\/PTDC0068-706754.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5875319871509653138\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div dir='ltr'>Was this someone with an over-inflated spinnaker lining up for the start of the Gillette last Wednesday?<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Or perhaps someone trying to get an early viewing of the club before Saturday&#8217;s Open Day?<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Nonetheless, it didn&#8217;t deter the 20 or so boats that set out for the Wednesday evening race, including some new faces.&nbsp; Mark set an interesting start, which was difficult to judge from both land and water, but no hooters sounded.&nbsp; The breeze was so light that the leader stole the wind from those behind and got such a head start that no one could get close.&nbsp; No, Sally, that wasn&#8217;t the Leader I meant &#8211; not such a good start this week, but you still managed to &#8220;beat Dean on the water&#8221;.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The wind got lighter and lighter the longer the race lasted, and when the last sailor was making his weary way into shore, others were already showered and tucking into a delicious dinner.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was this someone with an over-inflated spinnaker lining up for the start of the Gillette last Wednesday?&nbsp;Or perhaps someone trying to get an early viewing of the club before Saturday&#8217;s Open Day?&nbsp;Nonetheless, it didn&#8217;t deter the 20 or so boats that set out for the Wednesday evening race, including some new faces.&nbsp; Mark set an interesting start, which was difficult<\/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-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9D017-a8","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","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=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readingsc.org.uk\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}