{"id":28902,"date":"2010-03-14T13:18:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T20:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=28902"},"modified":"2010-03-14T15:49:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T22:49:27","slug":"americas-cup-nitros-wingsail-trimming-primer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=28902","title":{"rendered":"America’s Cup: Nitro’s Wingsail Trimming Primer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sail-World’s Richard Gladwell interviewed Noel (Nitro) Drennan, on the Sail-World stand at the Auckland International Boat Show.<\/p>\n

For those who do not know Noel, he is a four time America’s Cup campaigner (mostly with US based challengers) and is a Volvo Ocean race winner, as one of the crew aboard illbruck Challenge in the 2001\/02 event.<\/p>\n

A veteran of 25 Sydney Hobart races (the latest on Alfa Romeo), Drennan has just joined a very elite group who have won the Volvo Ocean Race and the America’s Cup.<\/p>\n

(He’s called ‘Nitro’ after sailing on a Melbourne yacht, called Nitro, when he was young – and the name has stuck. Nothing to do with an explosive personality, or anything like that – far from it in fact …\u00c2\u00a0 Details<\/a><\/p>\n

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Sail-World’s Richard Gladwell interviewed Noel (Nitro) Drennan, on the Sail-World stand at the Auckland International Boat Show. For those who do not know Noel, he is a four time America’s Cup campaigner (mostly with US based challengers) and is a Volvo Ocean race winner, as one of the crew aboard illbruck Challenge in the 2001\/02 […]<\/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-28902","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\/28902","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=28902"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28930,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28902\/revisions\/28930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}