{"id":9942,"date":"2009-04-21T12:47:33","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T19:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=9942"},"modified":"2009-04-21T12:47:33","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T19:47:33","slug":"powerboat-cure-kids-takes-nz-offshore-powerboat-championship-lead-in-whangarei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=9942","title":{"rendered":"Powerboat &#8211; Cure Kids takes NZ Offshore Powerboat Championship lead in Whangarei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9943\" title=\"nz\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/04\/nz.jpg\" alt=\"nz\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/nz.jpg 660w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/nz-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/nz-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Close racing among the offshore powerboats on a new inner harbour Marsden Cove course near Whangarei saw \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcCure Kids\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 the ultimate race winner and move into the championship lead with one round to go.<\/p>\n<p>In generally sheltered conditions, 17 competitors lined up for the seventh round of the 2009 Rayglass New Zealand Offshore Powerboat Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Brinck, spokesperson for the New Zealand Offshore Powerboat Association (NZOPA), says there was very close racing between \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcCure Kids\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcFairview Windows &amp; Doors\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s champion superboat \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcSleepyhead\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in the 100-mile race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But then \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcSleepyhead\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 broke down, which left leader \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcFairview\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, with &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerboat-world.com\/index.cfm?nid=56000\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close racing among the offshore powerboats on a new inner harbour Marsden Cove course near Whangarei saw \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcCure Kids\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 the ultimate race winner and move into the championship lead with one round to go. In generally sheltered conditions, 17 competitors lined up for the seventh round of the 2009 Rayglass New Zealand Offshore Powerboat Championship. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9942","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\/9942","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=9942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9945,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9942\/revisions\/9945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}