{"id":22722,"date":"2015-04-29T17:11:46","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T17:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=22722"},"modified":"2015-04-29T17:49:25","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T17:49:25","slug":"cheeki-rafiki-accident-report-points-to-keel-detachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2015\/04\/cheeki-rafiki-accident-report-points-to-keel-detachment\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheeki Rafiki Accident Report Points to Keel Detachment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/31416025_Yacht_Che_3284440b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22734 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/31416025_Yacht_Che_3284440b.jpg\" alt=\"Yacht Cheeki Rafiki Capsized \/ Antigua Sailing Week\" width=\"620\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/31416025_Yacht_Che_3284440b.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/31416025_Yacht_Che_3284440b-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The British crew of a yacht lost in the north Atlantic more than 700 miles off Nova Scotia battled to stop water flooding in after the vessel was battered by powerful waves, an official report has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Two days before the 12m-long <em>Cheeki Rafiki<\/em> capsized with the loss of its four crew, the skipper reported: \u201cJust hit a big wave hard.\u201d In the final message minutes before contact was lost he said: \u201cThis is getting worse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The disappearance of the vessel, which was en route from Antigua to the UK, caused diplomatic waves when the American Coast Guard called off the search and rescue operation after two days.<\/p>\n<p>Following protests from the men\u2019s families and intervention from the British government, the search was resumed and the boat found but there was no sign of any of the four men. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/apr\/29\/cheeki-rafiki-crew-tried-to-stop-flooding-amid-5m-waves-and-force-seven-winds\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British crew of a yacht lost in the north Atlantic more than 700 miles off Nova Scotia battled to stop water flooding in after the vessel was battered by powerful waves, an official report has revealed. Two days before the 12m-long Cheeki Rafiki capsized with the loss of its four crew, the skipper reported: \u201cJust hit a big wave hard.\u201d In the final message minutes before contact was lost he said: \u201cThis is getting worse.\u201d The disappearance of the vessel, which was en route from Antigua to the UK, caused diplomatic waves when the American Coast Guard called off the search and rescue operation after two days. Following protests from the men\u2019s families and intervention from the British government, the search was resumed and the boat found but there was no sign of any of the four men. \u00a0Read More &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[481,480],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22722"}],"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=22722"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22735,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22722\/revisions\/22735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}