{"id":162210,"date":"2021-12-10T20:46:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T03:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=162210"},"modified":"2021-12-10T20:46:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T03:46:57","slug":"kiteboard-speed-sailing-moonshot-1-alex-caizergues-high-tech-speed-sailing-craft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=162210","title":{"rendered":"Kiteboard Speed Sailing &#8211; Moonshot #1 &#8211; Alex Caizergues&#8217; High-Tech Speed Sailing Craft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The project led by French kiteboarder Alex Caizergues aims to break the world speed sailing record.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of Moonshot #1 is to dethrone Vestas Sailrocket 2&#8217;s 2012 record set at 65.45 knots (121.21 kilometers per hour) over 500 meters in Walvis Bay, Namibia.<\/p>\n<p>Moonshot #1 expects to reach 80.99 knots (150 kilometers per hour) by the end of 2022, most likely in the south of France, where Syroco has its headquarters.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rq0-Txzcsc0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The project led by French kiteboarder Alex Caizergues aims to break the world speed sailing record. The goal of Moonshot #1 is to dethrone Vestas Sailrocket 2&#8217;s 2012 record set at 65.45 knots (121.21 kilometers per hour) over 500 meters in Walvis Bay, Namibia. Moonshot #1 expects to reach 80.99 knots (150 kilometers per hour) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,33,32,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-boating","category-kiteboard","category-sailing","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162210","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=162210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162211,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162210\/revisions\/162211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}