{"id":5605,"date":"2009-03-23T10:58:41","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T17:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=5605"},"modified":"2009-03-23T11:39:20","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T18:39:20","slug":"sailing-volvo-ocean-race-ericsson-3-watching-their-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=5605","title":{"rendered":"Sailing &#8211; Volvo Ocean Race: Ericsson 3 watching their back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For Ericsson 3, the finish of Volvo Ocean Race leg five cannot come soon enough. It is a question of watching anxiously to see what the opposition is doing \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in this case Ericsson 4, and waiting for the wind to fill in to propel them to a first-place finish in Rio de Janeiro. The team has covered a measly 189 nm in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>With every three-hour position report there is a small loss or gain to be made and today at 1300 GMT, Ericsson 3 was on the up, having clawed back 15 miles from Ericsson 4 to extend their margin to 72 nautical miles.<\/p>\n<p>Currently 246 nm off the Brazilian coast and parallel to Port Alegre, Ericsson 3 is making 9.3 knots. Ericsson 4 is right on her tail and still has wind, while PUMA &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sail-world.com\/USA\/index.cfm?SEID=0&amp;Nid=55075&amp;SRCID=0&amp;ntid=0&amp;tickeruid=0&amp;tickerCID=0\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div><center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Ericsson 3, the finish of Volvo Ocean Race leg five cannot come soon enough. It is a question of watching anxiously to see what the opposition is doing \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in this case Ericsson 4, and waiting for the wind to fill in to propel them to a first-place finish in Rio de Janeiro. The [&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-5605","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\/5605","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=5605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5607,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5605\/revisions\/5607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}