{"id":37291,"date":"2010-09-14T17:21:09","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T00:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=37291"},"modified":"2010-09-14T20:53:16","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T03:53:16","slug":"navy-wins-the-alderney-to-poole-kitesurf-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=37291","title":{"rendered":"Navy wins the Alderney to Poole kitesurf challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The event was a joint effort between the three services, and travel company Ticket to Ride, aiming to raise at least \u00c2\u00a310,000 for the charity Help For Heroes using a Kitesurfing Challenge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Island of Alderney is just off the Cherbourg peninsular, and so was the perfect start point.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is the first cross channel race of this kind, and was different in that many channel crossings are from the southeast coast of the uk to calais &#8211; only 17 miles or so. Alderney to Poole is approximately 70 miles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The teams left Southampton at 6pm on Thursday 9th September in 3 ribs to cross the channel. The crossing itself was\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfertoday.com\/kiteboarding\/4092-navy-wins-the-alderney-to-poole-kitesurf-challenge\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The event was a joint effort between the three services, and travel company Ticket to Ride, aiming to raise at least \u00c2\u00a310,000 for the charity Help For Heroes using a Kitesurfing Challenge. The Island of Alderney is just off the Cherbourg peninsular, and so was the perfect start point. This is the first cross channel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-kiteboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37291","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=37291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37342,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37291\/revisions\/37342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}