{"id":23960,"date":"2015-10-07T23:46:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T23:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=23960"},"modified":"2015-10-07T23:46:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T23:46:10","slug":"yachtsman-refuses-to-be-rescued-as-he-drifts-towards-north-sea-gas-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2015\/10\/yachtsman-refuses-to-be-rescued-as-he-drifts-towards-north-sea-gas-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Yachtsman Refuses to be Rescued as he Drifts Towards North Sea Gas Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"firstPar\">\n<div>\u00a0An 82-year-old yachtsman adrift in the North Sea refused to be airflifted to safety despite fears he could crash into a gas platform with more than 160 workers on board.<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beneteauamerica.com\/Sailboats\/Oceanis\/Oceanis-38?utm_source=Cruising_Compass_05_2015&amp;utm_medium=banner650x90&amp;utm_campaign=OC38\" target=\"_blank\">[spacer height=&#8221;10px&#8221;]<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"secondPar\">\n<div>The English pensioner&#8217;s stricken vessel started drifting towards the North Alwyn oil and gas platform in storm-force conditions, sparking a major rescue operation.\u00a0But he declined to be flown to safety by two Norwegian helicopters because he did not want to abandon his yacht.<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beneteauamerica.com\/Sailboats\/Oceanis\/Oceanis-38?utm_source=Cruising_Compass_05_2015&amp;utm_medium=banner650x90&amp;utm_campaign=OC38\" target=\"_blank\">[spacer height=&#8221;10px&#8221;]<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div>The yacht is understood to belong to Julian Mustoe, who has written a book about his circumnavigation of the globe, retracing Charles Darwin&#8217;s voyage of The Beagle between 2001 and 2012.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/scotland\/11916091\/Stricken-North-Sea-yachtsman-82-refuses-to-be-rescued-as-he-drifts-towards-gas-platform.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0An 82-year-old yachtsman adrift in the North Sea refused to be airflifted to safety despite fears he could crash into a gas platform with more than 160 workers on board.[spacer height=&#8221;10px&#8221;] The English pensioner&#8217;s stricken vessel started drifting towards the North Alwyn oil and gas platform in storm-force conditions, sparking a major rescue operation.\u00a0But he declined to be flown to safety by two Norwegian helicopters because he did not want to abandon his yacht.[spacer height=&#8221;10px&#8221;] The yacht is understood to belong to Julian Mustoe, who has written a book about his circumnavigation of the globe, retracing Charles Darwin&#8217;s voyage of The Beagle between 2001 and 2012.\u00a0Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23961,"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\/23960"}],"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=23960"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23977,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23960\/revisions\/23977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}