{"id":23474,"date":"2015-08-06T15:07:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T15:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=23474"},"modified":"2015-08-06T15:16:08","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T15:16:08","slug":"transatlantic-yachtsman-dies-during-attempt-at-17th-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2015\/08\/transatlantic-yachtsman-dies-during-attempt-at-17th-crossing\/","title":{"rendered":"Transatlantic Yachtsman Dies During Attempt at 17th Crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A yachtsman attempting his 17th transatlantic crossing has been pronounced dead after he was found in the sea off the UK coast.\u00a0The alarm was raised after Philip Walwyn\u2019s 40ft boat was found unmanned.\u00a0An air and sea search operation was launched and Walwyn was pulled from the water on Monday afternoon and flown to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The 68-year-old, who lived on the Caribbean island of St Kitts was a past commodore of St Kitts Yacht Club. In a statement, the club said: \u201cIt is with great sadness that we bring news of the passing of a great man \u2013 a legend in his own right. We say goodbye to one of the world\u2019s utmost sailing icons, and our past commodore, Philip Walwyn. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2015\/aug\/04\/transatlantic-yachtsman-philip-walwyn-dies\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A yachtsman attempting his 17th transatlantic crossing has been pronounced dead after he was found in the sea off the UK coast.\u00a0The alarm was raised after Philip Walwyn\u2019s 40ft boat was found unmanned.\u00a0An air and sea search operation was launched and Walwyn was pulled from the water on Monday afternoon and flown to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The 68-year-old, who lived on the Caribbean island of St Kitts was a past commodore of St Kitts Yacht Club. In a statement, the club said: \u201cIt is with great sadness that we bring news of the passing of a great man \u2013 a legend in his own right. We say goodbye to one of the world\u2019s utmost sailing icons, and our past commodore, Philip Walwyn. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[641],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23474"}],"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=23474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23502,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23474\/revisions\/23502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}