{"id":7849,"date":"2009-04-07T10:08:25","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T17:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7849"},"modified":"2009-04-07T21:20:14","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T04:20:14","slug":"sailing-so-near-for-vestas-sailrocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7849","title":{"rendered":"Sailing &#8211; So near for Vestas Sailrocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7850\" title=\"sailrocket\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/04\/sailrocket.bmp\" alt=\"sailrocket\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Latest from Paul Larsen and Vestas Sailrocket.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday we got out early to make the most of the early tide. Conditions looked good so we didn&#8217;t hang around at the timing hut but went straight to the top of the nautical mile course for another shot at the title. Just as we left the beach a strong gust came and whipped up the sand. Things settled and in short time we were ready for a run.<\/p>\n<p>I felt good based on that run we had done a few days ago in stronger conditions. I was eager to replicate the start-up and peg Vestas Sailrocket along the shore. We were getting reports of gusts to 25 knots so I decided to sail in a softer mode which I hoped would be sufficient for the mile record without endangering the boat. I was going to set the wing at 15 degrees with the main flap pulled on.<\/p>\n<p>The start up went great and it was one of the cleanest courses I had ever sailed. I was right along the shore and &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sail-world.com\/USA\/So-near-for-Vestas-Sailrocket\/55520\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 Latest from Paul Larsen and Vestas Sailrocket. Yesterday we got out early to make the most of the early tide. Conditions looked good so we didn&#8217;t hang around at the timing hut but went straight to the top of the nautical mile course for another shot at the title. Just as we left 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-7849","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\/7849","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=7849"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8021,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849\/revisions\/8021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}