{"id":21467,"date":"2009-10-07T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=21467"},"modified":"2009-10-07T09:50:19","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T16:50:19","slug":"sailing-vestas-sailrocket-out-of-action-after-53-knot-boost-and-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=21467","title":{"rendered":"Sailing &#8211; Vestas Sailrocket out of action after 53 knot &#8216;Boost&#8217; and crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Vestas Sailrocket&#8217;s final World Record Attempt started on October 2nd. Today&#8217;s latest news is not good for the Team.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Paul Larsen:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;ll cut to the chase&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Yesterday we did a run in gusty conditions with recorded winds during the run ranging from 18.6 to 26.3 knots. The run started slow and peaked at 52.8 knots going past the timing hut&#8230; with no main flap on (approx. 4 knots still up our sleeve)&#8230; I got the flap on and pushed on trying to make this run count. At the end of the course we hit a small freak wave (a last remnant of the North bound Atlantic swell that wraps around the distant Pelican point and rolls back up the bay). The front end got &#8216;boosted&#8217; and it appears that the main foil failed at the top inboard tip due to the centre of effort moving rapidly down with the boat fully loaded at around 48-50 knots.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It didn&#8217;t go as high as last time and &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sail-world.com\/USA\/index.cfm?SEID=0&amp;Nid=62024&amp;SRCID=0&amp;ntid=0&amp;tickeruid=0&amp;tickerCID=0\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/placeholder-3700955?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vestas Sailrocket&#8217;s final World Record Attempt started on October 2nd. Today&#8217;s latest news is not good for the Team. Paul Larsen: I&#8217;ll cut to the chase&#8230; Yesterday we did a run in gusty conditions with recorded winds during the run ranging from 18.6 to 26.3 knots. The run started slow and peaked at 52.8 knots [&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-21467","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\/21467","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=21467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21471,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21467\/revisions\/21471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}