{"id":16625,"date":"2009-07-14T20:12:23","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T03:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16625"},"modified":"2009-07-14T20:12:23","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T03:12:23","slug":"sailing-americas-cup-a-motor-at-a-sailboat-race-come-on-alinghi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16625","title":{"rendered":"Sailing America&#8217;s Cup &#8211; A motor at a sailboat race? Come on, Alinghi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the 158-year history of the America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Cup, no boat ever had an engine &#8212; until last week, when the Swiss launched Alinghi, a 100-foot catamaran that is to defend the cup against a 100-foot American trimaran somewhere in the world on Feb. 8.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A snowmobile engine on the catamaran, which has two hulls like a Hobie Cat, will be used to trim Alinghi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sails in a three-race series with BMW-Oracle\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trimaran, which has three hulls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Even though it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t supply propulsion, the engine appears to be a blatant violation of international racing rules that ban sail-trimming devices not cranked by human power.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Unless the engine is some kind of gag &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20090714\/SPORTS10\/90714066\/1058\/A-motor-at-a-sailboat-race?-Come-on--Alinghi\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 158-year history of the America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Cup, no boat ever had an engine &#8212; until last week, when the Swiss launched Alinghi, a 100-foot catamaran that is to defend the cup against a 100-foot American trimaran somewhere in the world on Feb. 8. A snowmobile engine on the catamaran, which has two hulls like [&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-16625","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\/16625","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=16625"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16627,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16625\/revisions\/16627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}