{"id":101552,"date":"2014-12-18T15:03:01","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T22:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=101552"},"modified":"2014-12-18T15:03:01","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T22:03:01","slug":"how-catamarans-won-over-sailing-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=101552","title":{"rendered":"How catamarans won over sailing community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a time when multihull yachts were frowned upon by sailing traditionalists.<\/p>\n<p>Not anymore, thanks largely to the influence that the catamaran has had since its controversial introduction in America\u2019s Cup sailing.<\/p>\n<p>The catamaran made its debut in the Cup in 1988 when the San Diego Yacht Club\u2019s Stars &amp; Stripes H3 successfully defended the \u201cAuld Mug\u201d against New Zealand challenger KZ-1, a 90-foot monohull, in one of the biggest mismatches in the history of the prestigious regatta\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalgazette.com\/article\/20141218\/NEWS\/141219698\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a time when multihull yachts were frowned upon by sailing traditionalists. Not anymore, thanks largely to the influence that the catamaran has had since its controversial introduction in America\u2019s Cup sailing. The catamaran made its debut in the Cup in 1988 when the San Diego Yacht Club\u2019s Stars &amp; Stripes H3 successfully defended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101553,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101552\/revisions\/101553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}