{"id":16241,"date":"2009-07-11T14:37:20","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T21:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16241"},"modified":"2012-08-05T19:55:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T02:55:34","slug":"sailing-alfa-romeo-powers-towards-hawaii-leaving-transpac-records-in-its-wake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16241","title":{"rendered":"Sailing &#8211; Alfa Romeo powers towards Hawaii leaving Transpac records in its wake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Neville Crichton&#8217;s Alfa Romeo is on track to break one record and keep us holding our breaths right down to the last second.<\/p>\n<p>After knocking out couple of 400-nautical mile days since departing Los Angeles, Alfa Romeo&#8217;s pace slowed a bit on July 9th and she posted an awesome 391-nautical-mile day. The 0600 position report shows Alfa Romeo within 367 nautical miles of Hawaii and the 20-knot easterly winds and two to three meter seas stretch between her and her Diamond Head destination. She is less than a day away. Her ETA according to the 0600 position report is 04:17 am PDT, or 01:17 am HST. Everyone is routing for perfectly executed maneuvers from the 16-member crew.<\/p>\n<p>Alfa Romeo, the 100-foot Reichel Pugh, owned by Neville Crichton, is poised to be the first boat ever to &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sail-world.com\/USA\/index.cfm?SEID=0&amp;Nid=58848&amp;SRCID=0&amp;ntid=0&amp;tickeruid=0&amp;tickerCID=0\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neville Crichton&#8217;s Alfa Romeo is on track to break one record and keep us holding our breaths right down to the last second. After knocking out couple of 400-nautical mile days since departing Los Angeles, Alfa Romeo&#8217;s pace slowed a bit on July 9th and she posted an awesome 391-nautical-mile day. The 0600 position report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16241","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\/16241","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=16241"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68025,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16241\/revisions\/68025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}