{"id":27482,"date":"2017-03-09T11:47:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T11:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=27482"},"modified":"2017-03-09T11:47:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T11:47:22","slug":"crazy-voyages-sailors-who-took-to-sea-without-the-relevant-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2017\/03\/crazy-voyages-sailors-who-took-to-sea-without-the-relevant-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Voyages: Sailors Who Took to Sea Without the Relevant Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With no sailing experience, Chay Blyth decided to compete in the 1968-69 Sunday Time\u2019s Golden Globe Race. The 27-year-old only made it just past the Cape of Good Hope on board his 30-foot yacht, <em>Dytiscus III<\/em> before retiring. In storm force 10-11, the fiberglass twin-keeled yacht broached (Blyth admitted he had no idea what broaching was until he read one of Sir Francis Chichester\u2019s books later), repeatedly breaking the self-steering gear. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ybw.com\/features\/crazy-voyages-sailors-without-sailing-experience-47922\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.ybw.com\/features\/crazy-voyages-sailors-without-sailing-experience-47922\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With no sailing experience, Chay Blyth decided to compete in the 1968-69 Sunday Time\u2019s Golden Globe Race. The 27-year-old only made it just past the Cape of Good Hope on board his 30-foot yacht, Dytiscus III before retiring. In storm force 10-11, the fiberglass twin-keeled yacht broached (Blyth admitted he had no idea what broaching was until he read one of Sir Francis Chichester\u2019s books later), repeatedly breaking the self-steering gear. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1628],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27482"}],"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=27482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27488,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27482\/revisions\/27488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}