{"id":14788,"date":"2009-06-17T13:11:44","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T20:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14788"},"modified":"2009-06-17T13:11:44","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T20:11:44","slug":"offshore-powerboat-racing-inter-city-powerboat-records-%e2%80%98up-for-grabs%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14788","title":{"rendered":"Offshore Powerboat Racing &#8211; Inter-city powerboat records \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcup for grabs\u00e2\u20ac\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14789\" title=\"stephan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/06\/stephan.bmp\" alt=\"stephan\" \/>Australia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s flamboyant \u00e2\u20ac\u02dchairdresser to the stars\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Steve \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcStefan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Ackerie has shelved plans to return to offshore racing for the moment, but next year intends to make an all-out assault on a variety of inter-city powerboat speed records.<\/p>\n<p>Commercial fisherman and former abalone diver, Gunther Pfrengle, currently holds five inter-city records recognised by the Australian Powerboat Association (APBA).<\/p>\n<p>Ackerie, who has held several inter-city speed records, including the marathon Cairns-Brisbane, said he was prepared to put up &#8216;$1 million-plus&#8217; to chase some of the records.<\/p>\n<p>His \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcassault\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 will take place next year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I have to get the boat ready and &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sail-world.com\/index.cfm?Nid=57976&amp;refre=y&amp;ntid=0\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s flamboyant \u00e2\u20ac\u02dchairdresser to the stars\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Steve \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcStefan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Ackerie has shelved plans to return to offshore racing for the moment, but next year intends to make an all-out assault on a variety of inter-city powerboat speed records. Commercial fisherman and former abalone diver, Gunther Pfrengle, currently holds five inter-city records recognised by the Australian Powerboat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-powerboat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14788","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=14788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14791,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14788\/revisions\/14791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}