{"id":9372,"date":"2016-08-02T11:51:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T15:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/?p=9372"},"modified":"2016-08-02T11:52:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T15:52:34","slug":"sailing-legend-derek-hatfield-dies-suddenly-at-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/sailing-legend-derek-hatfield-dies-suddenly-at-63\/","title":{"rendered":"Sailing Legend Derek Hatfield Dies Suddenly At 63"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Derek Hatfield, a sailing legend who cast fear to the wind to become the first Canadian to complete two solo around-the-world voyages, has died suddenly at 63.<br \/>\nIn 2002-2003, Hatfield, a former RCMP officer, became the 126th person to complete the Around Alone around-the-world sailing race on his own.<br \/>\nPiloting the <em>Spirit of Canada<\/em>, a 12-meter sailboat he built with friends and family, Hatfield sailed 28,700 nautical miles in nine months in completing the voyage.<br \/>\nHe accomplished the same feat in 2010-2011.\u00a0In both races he placed third in his class.\u00a0In an interview prior to his 2010 attempt, Hatfield explained how he did it.<br \/>\n\u201cYou have to feel so secure in what you are doing on the boat all the time that you really don\u2019t feel that you\u2019re at risk just because you are a thousand miles from land,\u201d he said.<br \/>\n\u201cIf there was any fear at all of the ocean or being alone, that fear would stop you from going and you would never leave the dock.\u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcinet.ca\/en\/2016\/08\/02\/sailing-legend-derek-hatfield-dies-suddenly-at-63\/\"> (Read more.)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derek Hatfield, a sailing legend who cast fear to the wind to become the first Canadian to complete two solo around-the-world voyages, has died suddenly at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,9,10,609],"tags":[708,709,706,82,149,707],"class_list":["post-9372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-water-sailing","category-cruising-news","category-current-issue","category-editors-picks","category-featured-news","tag-12-meter","tag-around-alone","tag-derek-hatfield","tag-offshore-sailing","tag-racing","tag-spirit-of-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9372","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=9372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}