{"id":45665,"date":"2011-03-08T14:22:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T21:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=45665"},"modified":"2011-03-09T20:39:02","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T03:39:02","slug":"sailing-vestas-sailrocket-2-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=45665","title":{"rendered":"Sailing &#8211; Vestas SailRocket 2 unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The SailRocket Team today launched its second-generation speed sailing boat from East Cowes on the Isle of Wight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Vestas SailRocket 2 is designed to be significantly faster than its predecessor, with the ultimate aim of breaking the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcOutright World Speed Sailing Record&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Immediately after the launch the team prepared the new boat for shipping to Walvis Bay, Namibia, where sailing record attempts will begin in April.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Objective:\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Since the team started with the first boat in 2002, the record has gone up by almost nine knots or around 20%. We felt that\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sail-world.com\/index.cfm?Nid=81160&amp;refre=y&amp;ntid=0&amp;rid=4\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures &amp; More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SailRocket Team today launched its second-generation speed sailing boat from East Cowes on the Isle of Wight. Vestas SailRocket 2 is designed to be significantly faster than its predecessor, with the ultimate aim of breaking the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcOutright World Speed Sailing Record&#8217;. Immediately after the launch the team prepared the new boat for shipping to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45665","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\/45665","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=45665"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45786,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45665\/revisions\/45786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}