{"id":2988,"date":"2009-03-09T05:50:14","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T13:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=2988"},"modified":"2009-03-09T05:50:14","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T13:50:14","slug":"sailing-ericsson-3-leads-volvo-fleet-to-cape-horn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=2988","title":{"rendered":"Sailing &#8211; Ericsson 3 leads Volvo fleet to Cape Horn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2989\" title=\"volvo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/03\/volvo-150x100.jpg\" alt=\"volvo\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/volvo-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/volvo-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/volvo.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">After more days going up wind than anyone in the Volvo fleet cares to remember, the fleet has finally cracked off and is experience \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcproper\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Southern Ocean conditions as the five boats race onwards towards Cape Horn and the second of two scoring gates on this leg of the course. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">&#8216;What a relief. Finally the breeze has swung enough to le us ease sheets and get the good ship going fast in the right direction,&#8217; noted Ericsson 4\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bowman, Ryan Godfrey. &#8216;It has been days now that our distance to the finish has not budged, so what a pleasure the past 24-hours were, to be doing 20 knots and heading east,&#8217; he said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Meanwhile, out in front, and averaging a comfortable 18.8 knots, with 3,000 nautical miles to run to Cape Horn is &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sail-world.com\/USA\/index.cfm?SEID=0&amp;Nid=54633&amp;SRCID=0&amp;ntid=0&amp;tickeruid=0&amp;tickerCID=0\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After more days going up wind than anyone in the Volvo fleet cares to remember, the fleet has finally cracked off and is experience \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcproper\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Southern Ocean conditions as the five boats race onwards towards Cape Horn and the second of two scoring gates on this leg of the course. &#8216;What a relief. Finally the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2988","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\/2988","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=2988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2991,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions\/2991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}