{"id":12007,"date":"2019-01-29T10:21:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T14:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/?p=12007"},"modified":"2019-01-29T10:21:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T14:21:07","slug":"veteran-solo-sailor-wins-the-golden-globe-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/veteran-solo-sailor-wins-the-golden-globe-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran Solo Sailor Wins the Golden Globe Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The British sailing magazine <\/em>Yachting Monthly<em> reports this morning on the winner of the Golden Globe around the world race in an article by Katie Strickland.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Veteran solo skipper Jean-Luc Van Den Heede has won the\u00a0<strong>Golden Globe Race<\/strong>, crossing the finish line aboard his Rustler 36,\u00a0<em>Matmut<\/em>\u00a0this morning at Les Sables d\u2019Olonne after 212 days alone at sea.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 73-year-old\u2019s sixth circumnavigation, and a flotilla of boats escorted him into his home port while hundreds cheered from the quayside.<\/p>\n<p>He was met by his good friend\u00a0<strong>Sir Robin Knox-Johnston<\/strong>, who won the original 1968-1969 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race\u00a0 \u2013 the only entrant to do so.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yachtingmonthly.com\/boat-events\/golden-globe-race\/jean-luc-van-den-heede-wins-68665#CGRgl6pyXiAwjfUc.99\">Read the full article in Yachting Monthly here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British sailing magazine Yachting Monthly reports this morning on the winner of the Golden Globe around the world race in an article by Katie Strickland.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,609],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cruising-news","category-featured-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12009,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12007\/revisions\/12009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}