{"id":1593,"date":"2009-02-16T13:05:14","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T21:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1593"},"modified":"2009-03-17T20:13:24","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T03:13:24","slug":"ice-boating-extreme-speed-sport-in-polands-lake-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1593","title":{"rendered":"Ice boating: extreme speed sport in Poland&#8217;s lake district"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1594\" title=\"ice-boat2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/ice-boat2-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"ice-boat2\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>the middle of Poland&#8217;s largest lake covered by ice, a hundred or so speed demons fly across the frozen surface in special sail boats on blades.<\/p>\n<p>Sleek and built to race, the narrow boat hulls are fixed on a base of three gleaming blades and sports sails like those used in windsurfing to harness wind power and roar across frozen water.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the speed that gives you an adrenaline rush,&#8221; says Tomasz Zakrzewski, ranked number fourth in the world in the DN class ice boat racing.<\/p>\n<p>Sailing on ice is his passion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Among the disciplines that use wind and sails, it is the fastest. We sail at three times the speed of the wind&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5iXC11BzQ25TbCVOeQYw8TjmywD3w\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the middle of Poland&#8217;s largest lake covered by ice, a hundred or so speed demons fly across the frozen surface in special sail boats on blades. Sleek and built to race, the narrow boat hulls are fixed on a base of three gleaming blades and sports sails like those used in windsurfing to harness wind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,32,4,62,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-sailing","category-snow","category-snowmobile","category-windsurf-sailboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593","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=1593"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4609,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions\/4609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}