{"id":1064,"date":"2009-02-10T22:28:05","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T18:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2009-03-07T17:55:22","modified_gmt":"2009-03-08T01:55:22","slug":"back-in-the-hot-seat-the-vestas-sailrocket-project-is-to-get-the-outright-world-speed-sailing-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1064","title":{"rendered":"Back in the hot seat &#8211; the VESTAS SAILROCKET project is to get the outright world speed sailing record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1065\" title=\"speed-sail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/speed-sail-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"speed-sail\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0the 3rd of December, 2008, VESTAS SAILROCKET set a new &#8216;B&#8217; class world record of 47.36 knots over a 500 meter course. This gave her the unofficial title of the worlds fastest boat&#8230; but still 3.21 knots short of the Outright world record currently held by the kitesurfers. During their final attempt the craft lost &#8216;pitch stability&#8217;. The nose lifted up at near on 60 mph and performed a spectacular semi-loop&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alinghi.com\/en\/news\/world_sailing_news\/index.php?idIndex=1011&amp;idContent=18898\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0the 3rd of December, 2008, VESTAS SAILROCKET set a new &#8216;B&#8217; class world record of 47.36 knots over a 500 meter course. This gave her the unofficial title of the worlds fastest boat&#8230; but still 3.21 knots short of the Outright world record currently held by the kitesurfers. During their final attempt the craft lost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-crash-pictures-videos","category-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","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=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2841,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/2841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}