{"id":91242,"date":"2014-03-02T21:13:47","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T04:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=91242"},"modified":"2014-03-02T21:13:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T04:13:47","slug":"americas-cup-sailing-fast-foils-a-conversation-with-paul-bieker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=91242","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Cup Sailing &#8211; &#8220;Fast foils&#8221; a conversation with Paul Bieker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Few people in the sailing world are sharper than Paul Bieker, a soft-spoken Seattle-based naval architect who has spent his career designing a wide variety of sailing vessels, from super-quick I-14s and his one-off line of &#8216;Riptide&#8217; racer\/cruisers, to America\u2019s Cup yachts.<\/p>\n<p>Bieker is one of the core designers credited with &#8216;super-charging&#8217; Oracle Team USA\u2019s &#8216;USA 17&#8217; last September, changes that helped the American-flagged international team to successfully pull-off one of sports history\u2019s greatest comebacks to defend the 34th America\u2019s Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Yet pull up a seat on the rail next to Bieker-as I\u2019ve been fortunate enough to do on many occasions\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sail-world.com\/USA\/index.cfm?SEID=2&amp;Nid=119759&amp;SRCID=0&amp;ntid=0&amp;tickeruid=0&amp;tickerCID=0\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few people in the sailing world are sharper than Paul Bieker, a soft-spoken Seattle-based naval architect who has spent his career designing a wide variety of sailing vessels, from super-quick I-14s and his one-off line of &#8216;Riptide&#8217; racer\/cruisers, to America\u2019s Cup yachts. Bieker is one of the core designers credited with &#8216;super-charging&#8217; Oracle Team USA\u2019s [&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-91242","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\/91242","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=91242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91243,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91242\/revisions\/91243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}