{"id":2363,"date":"2009-03-03T16:27:48","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T00:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=2363"},"modified":"2009-03-17T17:33:15","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T00:33:15","slug":"offshore-powerboats-ready-to-thunder-in-napier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=2363","title":{"rendered":"Offshore powerboats ready to thunder in Napier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2364\" title=\"napier-offshore\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/03\/napier-offshore-150x100.jpg\" alt=\"napier-offshore\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/napier-offshore-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/napier-offshore-600x401.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/napier-offshore.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><span class=\"bodyverdana3\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">After an action-packed race along the Napier foreshore last year, competitors in the Rayglass New Zealand Offshore Powerboat Racing Championship are preparing themselves for another intense battle in the Hawke\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Bay on Saturday 7 March. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"bodyverdana3\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">&#8216;The ocean off Napier\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Westshore can develop some massive swells,&#8217; says Cary Gleeson, vice-president of the New Zealand Offshore Powerboat Association (NZOPA) and throttle-man for \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcDoosan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, current leader of the superboat lite class. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"bodyverdana3\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">&#8216;You can be racing side-by-side with another boat then it disappears from view into a swell&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;.. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerboat-world.com\/Offshore-powerboats-ready-to-thunder-in-Napier\/54441\/arc\" target=\"_blank\">Details\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<center><br \/>\n[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After an action-packed race along the Napier foreshore last year, competitors in the Rayglass New Zealand Offshore Powerboat Racing Championship are preparing themselves for another intense battle in the Hawke\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Bay on Saturday 7 March. &#8216;The ocean off Napier\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Westshore can develop some massive swells,&#8217; says Cary Gleeson, vice-president of the New Zealand Offshore Powerboat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-powerboat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363","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=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4416,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions\/4416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}