{"id":22088,"date":"2009-10-22T10:28:36","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T17:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=22088"},"modified":"2009-10-22T10:28:36","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T17:28:36","slug":"sailing-kiteboard-countdown-begins-for-the-2009-luderitz-speed-challenge-in-namibia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=22088","title":{"rendered":"Sailing Kiteboard &#8211; Countdown begins for the 2009 Luderitz Speed Challenge in Namibia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The third annual L\u00c3\u00bcderitz Speed Challenge will begin in less than two weeks.\u00c2\u00a0 This time last year, speed sailors shattered the previously unbeatable 50knot barrier (93kph), setting a string of world and national records in this \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Formula One of Sailing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Throughout the month of November many of the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top kitesurfers will once again descend on the remote Namibian town of L\u00c3\u00bcderitz to compete against each other and the clock to prove what is the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fastest wind-powered craft.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s challenge saw the kitesurfers take over many of the top slots in the international rankings for speed sailing, contested by sailboats, windsurfers and kitesurfers&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfertoday.com\/kiteboarding\/2411-countdown-begins-for-the-2009-luderitz-speed-challenge-in-namibia\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third annual L\u00c3\u00bcderitz Speed Challenge will begin in less than two weeks.\u00c2\u00a0 This time last year, speed sailors shattered the previously unbeatable 50knot barrier (93kph), setting a string of world and national records in this \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Formula One of Sailing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Throughout the month of November many of the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top kitesurfers will once again descend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,33,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-boating","category-kiteboard","category-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22088","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=22088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22089,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22088\/revisions\/22089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}