{"id":16028,"date":"2009-07-08T14:28:37","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T21:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16028"},"modified":"2012-08-05T20:30:35","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T03:30:35","slug":"sailing-regatta-for-blind-tests-sailors%e2%80%99-feel-for-the-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16028","title":{"rendered":"Sailing &#8211; Regatta for blind tests sailors\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 feel for the sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">With one minute until the race begins, Bill Rapp yells from the back of the sailboat, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ready about!\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 The sail swings, and the four-member crew scrambles into position. Barreling through Boston Harbor, they are off.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to get a little breeze here, Matt,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 says Rapp. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Just feel your way.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Chao, who cannot see the course ahead, the sails above, or the tiller he holds in his hand, feels the air on his face. He shifts, steering the boat gently.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday morning, Chao and fellow crewman Bruce Howell, who are both legally blind, competed against &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2009\/07\/08\/regatta_for_blind_tests_sailors8217_feel_for_the_sport\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With one minute until the race begins, Bill Rapp yells from the back of the sailboat, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ready about!\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 The sail swings, and the four-member crew scrambles into position. Barreling through Boston Harbor, they are off. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to get a little breeze here, Matt,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 says Rapp. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Just feel your way.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Matthew Chao, who cannot 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-16028","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\/16028","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=16028"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68072,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16028\/revisions\/68072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}