{"id":107525,"date":"2015-06-25T20:43:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T03:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=107525"},"modified":"2015-06-25T20:43:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T03:43:29","slug":"sailing-expectations-obliterated-39-51-knots-aboard-lending-club-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=107525","title":{"rendered":"Sailing &#8211; Expectations Obliterated &#8211; 39.51 knots aboard Lending Club 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After having spent more than a decade of my life covering the sport of sailing, I thought that I\u2019d experienced it all: Volvo Open 70s, super maxis, mini maxis, IMOCA 60s, and high-performance dinghies, not to mention plenty of well-sailed Corinthian-level monohulls. But then I received an email from Nicola Breymaier, inviting me to join her husband, Ryan Breymaier, one of America\u2019s most accomplished single-handed skippers, in San Francisco aboard the 105-foot trimaran, Lending Club 2 (ex Banque Populaire VII). The email had barely arrived by the time I was booking my plane tickets to SFO.<\/p>\n<p>I knew the day was going to be special when\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sail-world.com\/Expectations-Obliterated--39-51-knots-aboard-Lending-Club-2\/135836\" 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>After having spent more than a decade of my life covering the sport of sailing, I thought that I\u2019d experienced it all: Volvo Open 70s, super maxis, mini maxis, IMOCA 60s, and high-performance dinghies, not to mention plenty of well-sailed Corinthian-level monohulls. But then I received an email from Nicola Breymaier, inviting me to join [&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-107525","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\/107525","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=107525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107526,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107525\/revisions\/107526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}