{"id":15363,"date":"2009-07-02T22:44:37","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T05:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=15363"},"modified":"2012-08-05T22:54:05","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T05:54:05","slug":"sailing-breaking-down-how-americas-cup-competitors-make-fast-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=15363","title":{"rendered":"Sailing &#8211; Breaking down how America&#8217;s Cup competitors make fast faster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Some non-sailors trying to understand what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s happening in the America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Cup have emailed to say that they are puzzled by the ability of trimarans and catamarans to sail faster then the wind. The answer is explained by some relatively simple physics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">First, no sailboat can exceed the wind speed when heading straight downwind. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll see why in a minute.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But to understand how they sometimes can go faster than the wind speed, imagine sitting still on a bicycle with the wind blowing directly from one side at 10 miles per hour. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what sailors call&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20090701\/SPORTS10\/90701008\/1058\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some non-sailors trying to understand what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s happening in the America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Cup have emailed to say that they are puzzled by the ability of trimarans and catamarans to sail faster then the wind. The answer is explained by some relatively simple physics. First, no sailboat can exceed the wind speed when heading straight downwind. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll see [&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-15363","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\/15363","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=15363"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68226,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15363\/revisions\/68226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}