{"id":2727,"date":"2008-04-11T14:29:30","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T14:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bwsailing.com\/?p=2727"},"modified":"2008-04-11T14:29:30","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T14:29:30","slug":"island-packet-465-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/island-packet-465-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Island Packet 465"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2728\" title=\"IPY-465\" src=\"http:\/\/bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IPY-465-300x210.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" \/>Island Packet 465 \u2022 <\/strong>The boat\u2019s distinctive beige hull with the short bowsprit  was heeled over at about 10 degrees as it reached comfortably and  steadily before the clearing northwest breeze. In the background some 10  miles distant lay the sandy shores of Virginia Beach. Astern was the  mouth of Chesapeake Bay and ahead, on the boat\u2019s course lay the  Caribbean Sea some 1,200 miles away.<\/p>\n<p>Any sailor would know it was a cruising boat. It had a high cut  Yankee headsail, a lower cut self-tending staysail and a fully battened  mainsail. A dinghy was strapped down on deck. A radar dome was mounted  on the mast above the spreaders and a long whip antenna for the high  seas radio stood on the transom right next to the vertical blade of the  boat\u2019s wind vane self-steering unit.<\/p>\n<p>The cockpit was protected with a blue dodger,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Island Packet 465 \u2022 The boat\u2019s distinctive beige hull with the short bowsprit was heeled over at about 10 degrees as it reached comfortably and steadily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boat-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727","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=2727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}