{"id":1483,"date":"2009-02-14T21:57:24","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T17:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2009-03-03T16:08:35","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T00:08:35","slug":"crs-bontoft-named-electric-boat-racing-world-record-holder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1483","title":{"rendered":"CR&#8217;s Bontoft named electric boat racing world-record holder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1484\" title=\"B1-FastBoat1-1010-bw-.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/e-boat.jpg\" alt=\"B1-FastBoat1-1010-bw-.jpg\" \/>After waiting what seemed like endless months, Michael Bontoft has been named the world-record holder for electric boat racing.<\/p>\n<p>Bontoft set the record, 98.806 mph, in October at Devil\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Lake in Lincoln City, Ore. He and the electric boat that he crafted were featured in a Daily News article in October 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The Castle Rock man knew he had set a record during his run, but because of rules of the record\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s governing board, he couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t announce the achievement.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153They don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want somebody out there saying they broke the world record if they haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Bontoft said&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tdn.com\/articles\/2009\/02\/13\/this_day\/doc4994b162471d8243983962.txt\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After waiting what seemed like endless months, Michael Bontoft has been named the world-record holder for electric boat racing. Bontoft set the record, 98.806 mph, in October at Devil\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Lake in Lincoln City, Ore. He and the electric boat that he crafted were featured in a Daily News article in October 2008. The Castle Rock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,69,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-electric-vehicles","category-powerboat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483","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=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1486,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions\/1486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}