{"id":8840,"date":"2009-04-12T09:51:37","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T16:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=8840"},"modified":"2009-04-12T09:51:37","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T16:51:37","slug":"sailing-tony-bullimores-102-foot-catamaran-to-sail-at-antigua-race-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=8840","title":{"rendered":"Sailing &#8211; Tony Bullimore&#8217;s 102-foot catamaran to sail at Antigua Race Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8841\" title=\"cat\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/04\/cat-150x98.jpg\" alt=\"cat\" width=\"150\" height=\"98\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/cat-150x98.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/cat-600x392.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/cat.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Legendary British yachtsman Tony Bullimore\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s long list of offshore adventures and accomplishments is unparalleled. In a career that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s spanned four decades and over 400,000 competitive nautical miles, Bullimore has recorded victories in the Round Britain Race, the Round Europe Race, a pair of Transatlantic contests, and the Rolex Fastnet and Middle Sea Races.<\/p>\n<p>Bullimore earned worldwide notice and acclaim after surviving five long days following a capsize in the Southern Ocean in the 1996 Vendee Globe solo race around the planet, and later tackled those same stormy seas while registering a second in the Oryx Quest round-the-world race.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Tony Bullimore is setting sail aboard his well-tested, 102-foot catamaran in yet another world-class yachting event: the 2009 edition of Antigua Sailing Week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The boat has been renamed Spirit of Antigua&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sail-world.com\/USA\/index.cfm?SEID=2&amp;Nid=55740&amp;SRCID=0&amp;ntid=0&amp;tickeruid=0&amp;tickerCID=0\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary British yachtsman Tony Bullimore\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s long list of offshore adventures and accomplishments is unparalleled. In a career that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s spanned four decades and over 400,000 competitive nautical miles, Bullimore has recorded victories in the Round Britain Race, the Round Europe Race, a pair of Transatlantic contests, and the Rolex Fastnet and Middle Sea Races. Bullimore earned [&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-8840","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\/8840","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=8840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8843,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8840\/revisions\/8843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}