{"id":885,"date":"2009-02-08T08:43:41","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T04:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=885"},"modified":"2009-03-01T12:01:58","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T20:01:58","slug":"offshore-action-across-the-tasman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=885","title":{"rendered":"Offshore action across the Tasman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-886\" title=\"offshore\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/offshore-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"offshore\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<table id=\"phototable\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" width=\"310\" align=\"none\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">&#8216;Auckland brothers Warren and Scott Lewis bring \u00e2\u20ac\u2122Fairview Doors and Windows\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 across the line to take out round one of the NZ Offshore championship. &#8211; Offshore action across the Tasman&#8217; \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Phillip Hoskyn<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<span class=\"bodyverdana3\">It has been labelled \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThunder on the Gulf\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 as New Zealand\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s offshore racers prepare for the second round of the 2009 Rayglass NZ Offshore Powerboat championships set down for next Saturday (February 14).<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span class=\"bodyverdana3\">Race organisers have mapped out an open sea course off the Gulf Harbour Marina, north of Auckland.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"bodyverdana3\">Cary Gleeson, vice-president of the NZ Offshore Powerboat Association (NZOPA) has described the course as &#8216;traditionally pretty challenging.&#8217;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"bodyverdana3\">Gleeson, driver of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcDoosan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, is the current series leader in the Superboat Lite class.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"bodyverdana3\">&#8216;Some parts of the course can be very rough, with other legs fairly flat depending on tide and prevailing conditions; the race will always be interesting as some boats will be set up for the rough and that can often produce an upset victory,&#8217; he added&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerboat-world.com\/Offshore-action-across-the-Tasman\/53716\/arc\" target=\"_blank\">More info\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"bodyverdana3\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Auckland brothers Warren and Scott Lewis bring \u00e2\u20ac\u2122Fairview Doors and Windows\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 across the line to take out round one of the NZ Offshore championship. &#8211; Offshore action across the Tasman&#8217; \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Phillip Hoskyn \u00c2\u00a0It has been labelled \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThunder on the Gulf\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 as New Zealand\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s offshore racers prepare for the second round of the 2009 Rayglass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-powerboat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","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=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2111,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions\/2111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}