{"id":17181,"date":"2009-07-23T07:24:10","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T14:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=17181"},"modified":"2012-08-05T13:09:48","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T20:09:48","slug":"sailing-americas-cup-ellisons-dogzilla-gets-americas-cup-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=17181","title":{"rendered":"Sailing America’s Cup – Ellison’s ‘Dogzilla’ gets America’s Cup test"},"content":{"rendered":"

They call it “Dogzilla” – a towering beast of a high-tech sailing machine whose mast soars into the clouds. It is billionaire Larry Ellison’s best shot yet in his quest to capture the America’s Cup.<\/p>\n

This 90-foot-long trimaran with a 16-story-tall mast has massive sails that catapult the ultralight vessel and its crew at speeds far greater than the wind.<\/p>\n

“It’s awesome,” said Russell Coutts, the Kiwi skipper and chief executive of Ellison’s San Francisco-based BMW Oracle Racing. “Something that goes three times wind speed when you’re\u00c2\u00a0 …\u00c2\u00a0 Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They call it “Dogzilla” – a towering beast of a high-tech sailing machine whose mast soars into the clouds. It is billionaire Larry Ellison’s best shot yet in his quest to capture the America’s Cup. This 90-foot-long trimaran with a 16-story-tall mast has massive sails that catapult the ultralight vessel and its crew at speeds […]<\/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-17181","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\/17181","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=17181"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17183,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17181\/revisions\/17183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}