{"id":22186,"date":"2015-02-11T15:32:54","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T15:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=22186"},"modified":"2015-02-11T15:37:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T15:37:12","slug":"sail-on-ted-irwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2015\/02\/sail-on-ted-irwin\/","title":{"rendered":"Sail On Ted Irwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned yacht designer and builder Ted Irwin (left) passed away in Little Rock, Arkansas on Saturday, February 7\u00a0after a long battle with cancer. Irwin is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/TED-AND-GENE-1982.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-22187\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/TED-AND-GENE-1982-291x300.jpg\" alt=\"TED AND GENE 1982\" width=\"291\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/TED-AND-GENE-1982-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/TED-AND-GENE-1982.jpg 469w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/a>legend in the sailing business and can be credited with being a seminal part of the fiberglass boat building revolution of the 1960s and 70s.<\/p>\n<p>A noted Tampa Bay sailor from an early age, Irwin won the international Moth Class while still in his teens. He apprenticed with Charlie Morgan at Morgan Yachts (another pioneer in the trade) and then in 1963 went out on his own <span style=\"color: #000000;\">before incorporating as Irwin\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Yacht &amp; Marine Corporation and in 1966<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>His first boat to his own design was <em>Voodoo<\/em>, a 31-foot racer-cruiser that took an arduous six months to build. But the results were well worth Irwin\u2019s efforts. <em>Voodoo<\/em> went out and slaughtered the Florida racing fleets, winning 26 out her first 28 races. Irwin\u2019s early successes paved the way for him to launch Irwin Yacht &amp; Marine Co.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the life and works of Ted Irwin at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irwinyachts.com\/Irwin_Story\/The_Irwin_Story.htm\">www.irwinyachts.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s an article on his passing from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/humaninterest\/yacht-and-sailboat-builder-ted-irwin-dies-from-cancer\/2217053\"><em>Tampa Bay Times<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned yacht designer and builder Ted Irwin (left) passed away in Little Rock, Arkansas on Saturday, February 7\u00a0after a long battle with cancer. Irwin is a legend in the sailing business and can be credited with being a seminal part of the fiberglass boat building revolution of the 1960s and 70s. A noted Tampa Bay sailor from an early age, Irwin won the international Moth Class while still in his teens. He apprenticed with Charlie Morgan at Morgan Yachts (another pioneer in the trade) and then in 1963 went out on his own before incorporating as Irwin\u00a0Yacht &amp; Marine Corporation and in 1966. His first boat to his own design was Voodoo, a 31-foot racer-cruiser that took an arduous six months to build. But the results were well worth Irwin\u2019s efforts. Voodoo went out and slaughtered the Florida racing fleets, winning 26 out her first 28 races. Irwin\u2019s early successes paved the way for him to launch Irwin Yacht &amp; Marine Co. Read more about the life and works of Ted Irwin at\u00a0www.irwinyachts.com And here&#8217;s an article on his passing from the Tampa Bay Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[368],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22189,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22186\/revisions\/22189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}