{"id":22605,"date":"2015-04-22T20:17:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T20:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=22605"},"modified":"2015-04-22T20:18:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T20:18:20","slug":"ferry-assists-dismasted-yacht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2015\/04\/ferry-assists-dismasted-yacht\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferry Assists Dismasted Yacht in English Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22606\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Dismasted-yacht-2.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22606\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-22606 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Dismasted-yacht-2.jpg\" alt=\"Dismasted-yacht-2\" width=\"630\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Dismasted-yacht-2.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Dismasted-yacht-2-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Dismasted-yacht-2-620x393.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by ferry passenger Dave Wilson<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"copy-paste-block\">\n<p>A dismasted yacht in the English Channel had a bit of luck on Sunday after passengers on board a Brittany Ferries ship noticed the vessel was in distress.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Mont St Michael<\/em> had been heading to Portsmouth from Caen and was 3\/4 of the way through its journey when a passenger is believed to have alerted the captain to the yacht at around 5pm.<\/p>\n<div class=\"copy-paste-block\">\n<p>It\u2019s not yet known whether the crew had access to VHF communications as they were seen making hand signals at the captain.<\/p>\n<p>Passenger Anna Wyse, who was returning from a holiday in France, said: \u201cIt was quite a healthy swell and I guess about mid force five. They said over the intercom that the captain had to divert the ship to help a yacht in distress. \u00a0Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ybw.com\/news-from-yachting-boating-world\/dismasted-yacht-gets-a-helping-hand-from-brittany-ferries-10654#XyyLQzfD4Z53ZPeV.99\" target=\"_blank\">www.ybw.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dismasted yacht in the English Channel had a bit of luck on Sunday after passengers on board a Brittany Ferries ship noticed the vessel was in distress. The Mont St Michael had been heading to Portsmouth from Caen and was 3\/4 of the way through its journey when a passenger is believed to have alerted the captain to the yacht at around 5pm. It\u2019s not yet known whether the crew had access to VHF communications as they were seen making hand signals at the captain. Passenger Anna Wyse, who was returning from a holiday in France, said: \u201cIt was quite a healthy swell and I guess about mid force five. They said over the intercom that the captain had to divert the ship to help a yacht in distress. \u00a0Read more at www.ybw.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[459,457,456,458],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22605"}],"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=22605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22648,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22605\/revisions\/22648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}