{"id":23394,"date":"2015-07-23T15:15:20","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T15:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=23394"},"modified":"2015-07-23T15:15:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T15:15:20","slug":"canadian-sailors-rescue-typhoon-survivor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2015\/07\/canadian-sailors-rescue-typhoon-survivor\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Sailors Rescue Typhoon Survivor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 150-mile trip from\u00a0Telaga Harbour, in Langkawi, Malaysia, to Phuket, Thailand, is normally a pretty easy trip. But as Santa Cruz-based cruiser Tom Van Dyke of the Searunner 31 tri\u00a0<em>En Point\u00a0<\/em>reports, &#8220;A big blow during the past two weeks has been wreaking havoc . . . as typhoon activity in the Philippines and China has been sucking air up from the Indian Ocean and across the peninsula.&#8221; Two of Van Dyke&#8217;s cruising friends, George Juri and Grit Chiu, aboard the Alberta, Canada-based Hunter 50 <em>Escape<\/em>, caught the brunt of those conditions while sailing north toward Phuket last week, but the weather wasn&#8217;t the only memorable aspect of their trip.<\/p>\n<p>Van Dyke explains that on July 9, <em>Escape<\/em> was seven days out of Langkawi, &#8220;and had made just 100 miles island hopping between almost constant 30-knot winds with gusts into the 50s, when they spotted a man floating in the water between Koh Lanta and Koh Ngai.&#8221;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latitude38.com\/lectronic\/lectronicday.lasso?date=2015-07-20&amp;dayid=1242#\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 150-mile trip from\u00a0Telaga Harbour, in Langkawi, Malaysia, to Phuket, Thailand, is normally a pretty easy trip. But as Santa Cruz-based cruiser Tom Van Dyke of the Searunner 31 tri\u00a0En Point\u00a0reports, &#8220;A big blow during the past two weeks has been wreaking havoc . . . as typhoon activity in the Philippines and China has been sucking air up from the Indian Ocean and across the peninsula.&#8221; Two of Van Dyke&#8217;s cruising friends, George Juri and Grit Chiu, aboard the Alberta, Canada-based Hunter 50 Escape, caught the brunt of those conditions while sailing north toward Phuket last week, but the weather wasn&#8217;t the only memorable aspect of their trip. Van Dyke explains that on July 9, Escape was seven days out of Langkawi, &#8220;and had made just 100 miles island hopping between almost constant 30-knot winds with gusts into the 50s, when they spotted a man floating in the water between Koh Lanta and Koh Ngai.&#8221;\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23394"}],"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=23394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23396,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23394\/revisions\/23396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}