{"id":14287,"date":"2009-06-10T10:04:45","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T17:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14287"},"modified":"2009-06-10T10:04:45","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T17:04:45","slug":"sailboard-windsurfers-start-competition-at-the-2009-pwa-catalunya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14287","title":{"rendered":"Sailboard &#8211; Windsurfers start competition at the 2009 PWA Catalunya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The first day of the Catalunya Costa Brava PWA World Cup saw a relaxed start as light morning winds allowed competitors time to prepare for the week ahead. With a skippers meeting at 1pm and a first possible start at 2pm, the race crew were ready and waiting for the sea breeze to kick in.\u00c2\u00a0 On cue at around 2pm a light 10-15kt thermal wind switched on, giving the PWA elite their first chance to test the waters. The spectators were treated to an incredible show as the worlds best hit the ocean and went head to head to check their speed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">With the course set for a four-gybe downwind slalom, the red flag went up for the first at 2.50 and the first 8 sailors hit the start line at full speed&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfertoday.com\/windsurfing\/1408-windsurfers-start-competition-at-the-2009-pwa-catalunya\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first day of the Catalunya Costa Brava PWA World Cup saw a relaxed start as light morning winds allowed competitors time to prepare for the week ahead. With a skippers meeting at 1pm and a first possible start at 2pm, the race crew were ready and waiting for the sea breeze to kick in.\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-windsurf-sailboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14287","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=14287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14289,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14287\/revisions\/14289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}