{"id":2830,"date":"2009-03-07T15:11:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T23:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=2830"},"modified":"2009-04-03T19:23:03","modified_gmt":"2009-04-04T02:23:03","slug":"offshore-powerboat-racing-choppy-napier-conditions-for-powerboating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=2830","title":{"rendered":"Offshore Powerboat racing &#8211; Choppy Napier conditions for powerboating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2831\" title=\"off-cat\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/03\/off-cat.bmp\" alt=\"off-cat\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Testing conditions greeted competitors in the NZ Offshore Powerboat Championship in Napier on Saturday, and despite one to two metre swells and a one metre chop, both the 100-mile and 60-mile races saw very close racing.<\/p>\n<p>The leading 100-mile and 60-mile competitors finished within two to three hundred metres of each other, commented Greg Brinck, spokesperson for the New Zealand Offshore Powerboat Association and driver of 60-mile championship leader &#8216;Konica Minolta&#8217;&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/tvnz.co.nz\/othersports-news\/choppy-napier-conditions-powerboating-2523905\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Testing conditions greeted competitors in the NZ Offshore Powerboat Championship in Napier on Saturday, and despite one to two metre swells and a one metre chop, both the 100-mile and 60-mile races saw very close racing. The leading 100-mile and 60-mile competitors finished within two to three hundred metres of each other, commented Greg Brinck, [&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-2830","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\/2830","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=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7370,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions\/7370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}