{"id":5965,"date":"2009-03-26T09:28:34","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T16:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=5965"},"modified":"2009-03-26T16:51:22","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T23:51:22","slug":"canoe-ucsd-concrete-canoe-bound-for-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=5965","title":{"rendered":"Canoe &#8211; UCSD concrete canoe bound for Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5966\" title=\"acsd-canoe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/03\/acsd-canoe.jpg\" alt=\"acsd-canoe\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/acsd-canoe.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/acsd-canoe-150x90.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>It&#8217;s sink or swim for the &#8220;Dow Jones,&#8221; a concrete canoe built by UCSD&#8217;s Society of Civil and Structural Engineers. A team of engineering students loaded the 300-pound concrete canoe into a crate by hand on March 19.<\/p>\n<p>The crate was loaded into a truck headed to the port at Long Beach, from where it will be shipped to Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>UCSD engineering students will compete against 17 universities from the Pacific Southwest at the annual American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCI) collegiate conference at the University of Hawaii at Manoa on April 2 to 4. The canoe will be judged on its design and its comparative speed to other canoes.<\/p>\n<p>The secret to making this 25-foot concrete canoe float is &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lajollalight.com\/news\/255219-ucsd-concrete-canoe-bound-for-hawaii\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s sink or swim for the &#8220;Dow Jones,&#8221; a concrete canoe built by UCSD&#8217;s Society of Civil and Structural Engineers. A team of engineering students loaded the 300-pound concrete canoe into a crate by hand on March 19. The crate was loaded into a truck headed to the port at Long Beach, from where it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-kayak-canoe-rafting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965","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=5965"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6180,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965\/revisions\/6180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}