{"id":22529,"date":"2015-04-01T18:15:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T18:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=22529"},"modified":"2015-04-01T18:15:10","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T18:15:10","slug":"dongfeng-race-team-breaks-mast-retires-from-vor-leg-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2015\/04\/dongfeng-race-team-breaks-mast-retires-from-vor-leg-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Dongfeng Race Team Breaks Mast, Retires from VOR Leg 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/broken-mast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22530\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/broken-mast.jpg\" alt=\"broken mast\" width=\"620\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/broken-mast.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/broken-mast-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-short-text\" style=\"color: #37424a;\">Tough decisions. It&#8217;s part and parcel of being a Volvo Ocean Race skipper.\u00a0<\/span>But even so, as Dongfeng Race Team announced late Tuesday night\u00a0that they plan to retire from Leg 5 after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volvooceanrace.com\/en\/news\/8674_Dongfeng-Race-Team-breaks-mast-crew-safe.html\">breaking their mast<\/a> in the Southern Ocean on Monday morning, it will have been a bitter pill for Charles Caudrelier to swallow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #37424a;\">The French skipper had considered attempting to re-join the 6,776nm leg from Auckland to Itaja\u00ed after successfully nursing his red boat to Ushuaia, Argentina earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #37424a;\">But tonight a statement from the team read: \u201cThe decision has been made to motor-sail to Itaja\u00ed and not rejoin the race. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volvooceanrace.com\/en\/news\/8687_Time-to-call-it-quits.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tough decisions. It&#8217;s part and parcel of being a Volvo Ocean Race skipper.\u00a0But even so, as Dongfeng Race Team announced late Tuesday night\u00a0that they plan to retire from Leg 5 after breaking their mast in the Southern Ocean on Monday morning, it will have been a bitter pill for Charles Caudrelier to swallow. The French skipper had considered attempting to re-join the 6,776nm leg from Auckland to Itaja\u00ed after successfully nursing his red boat to Ushuaia, Argentina earlier in the day. But tonight a statement from the team read: \u201cThe decision has been made to motor-sail to Itaja\u00ed and not rejoin the race. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[68,436],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22529"}],"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=22529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22531,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22529\/revisions\/22531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}