{"id":28713,"date":"2017-08-15T17:02:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T17:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=28713"},"modified":"2017-08-15T17:02:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T17:02:50","slug":"surviving-the-ostars-perfect-storm-the-full-story-of-the-racers-rescued-in-force-11-summer-gale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2017\/08\/surviving-the-ostars-perfect-storm-the-full-story-of-the-racers-rescued-in-force-11-summer-gale\/","title":{"rendered":"Surviving the OSTAR\u2019s Perfect Storm: The Full Story of the Racers Rescued in Force 11 Summer Gale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Solo sailor Mervyn Wheatley set out from Plymouth for Newport, Rhode Island on 29 May this year with stirring tunes belting out from his beloved\u00a0<em>Tamarind<\/em>, the Formosa 42 that he had owned for nearly two decades. This was to be the 73-year-old\u2019s fifth OSTAR, and a 19th transatlantic for the former Royal Marine and Clipper Round the World Race skipper. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/news\/surviving-the-ostars-perfect-storm-as-told-by-the-transatlantic-solo-sailors-rescued-in-junes-force-11-gale-109594\">Read more and watch the video.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solo sailor Mervyn Wheatley set out from Plymouth for Newport, Rhode Island on 29 May this year with stirring tunes belting out from his beloved\u00a0Tamarind, the Formosa 42 that he had owned for nearly two decades. This was to be the 73-year-old\u2019s fifth OSTAR, and a 19th transatlantic for the former Royal Marine and Clipper Round the World Race skipper. Read more and watch the video.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28774,"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\/28713"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28780,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28713\/revisions\/28780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}