{"id":16427,"date":"2009-07-13T12:50:06","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T19:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16427"},"modified":"2012-08-05T15:51:19","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T22:51:19","slug":"sailing-magnitude-80-just-fails-to-beat-morning-glorys-time-in-transpac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16427","title":{"rendered":"Sailing &#8211; Magnitude 80 just fails to beat Morning Glory&#8217;s time in Transpac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16428\" title=\"mag-80\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/07\/mag-80.bmp\" alt=\"mag-80\" \/>Doug Baker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Magnitude 80, specifically designed by Alan Andrews Yacht Design for West Coast distance races, crossed the Diamond Head finish line at 2:17:41 am on Sunday.<\/img><\/p>\n<p>Magnitude 80\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s elapsed time of 6:16:17:41 (subject to ratification) was within minutes of Morning Glory\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s record run of 6:16:04:11 in 2005 that established a course record, which held until Alfa Romeo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s finish yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Magnitude 80 started the race on July 5th along with the other Unlimited Class boats. It finished over a day behind the 100-foot Alfa Romeo, also an Unlimited Class Division I boat. Magnitude 80, like Alfa Romeo, has a canting keel. It also has a single retractable daggerboard on centerline. With an active racing program, the boat has taken line honors, won numerous races on corrected time and holds records in the Tahiti Race, Marina del Rey to Cabo, LA to Cabo and Newport to Ensenada races, among others&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sail-world.com\/USA\/index.cfm?SEID=0&amp;Nid=58925&amp;SRCID=0&amp;ntid=0&amp;tickeruid=0&amp;tickerCID=0\" target=\"_blank\">Details\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Baker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Magnitude 80, specifically designed by Alan Andrews Yacht Design for West Coast distance races, crossed the Diamond Head finish line at 2:17:41 am on Sunday. Magnitude 80\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s elapsed time of 6:16:17:41 (subject to ratification) was within minutes of Morning Glory\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s record run of 6:16:04:11 in 2005 that established a course record, which held [&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-16427","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\/16427","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=16427"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24104,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16427\/revisions\/24104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}