{"id":29139,"date":"2017-10-11T11:22:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T11:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=29139"},"modified":"2017-10-11T11:22:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T11:22:26","slug":"sinking-yacht-strands-american-couple-in-lapoile-newfoundland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2017\/10\/sinking-yacht-strands-american-couple-in-lapoile-newfoundland\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinking Yacht Strands American Couple in LaPoile, Newfoundland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><em>You can&#8217;t sail much more off the beaten track than the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. But that&#8217;s where this\u00a0\u00a0Pennsylvania pair\u2019s usual sailing adventure along the southwest coast took an unexpected turn when their boat began to sink.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The couple was en route to Petites for the recent filming of a<em> Land and Sea<\/em> episode about the resettled port when they had to be rescued by fishermen from LaPoile. The tiny community has since taken them in while they await a solution.<br \/>\n\u201cWe\u2019ve been sailing up this way for quite a long time,\u201d Kit Leary said via phone interview. \u201cI initially came up with my sister and brother-in-law.\u201d<br \/>\nLeary first visited the area in 1992, and Adrienne Mendell, his wife and sailing partner, has been along for the trip since 1996.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetelegram.com\/news\/local\/2017\/10\/2\/sinking-ship-strands-american-couple-in-lapoile.html\"> Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0You can&#8217;t sail much more off the beaten track than the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. But that&#8217;s where this\u00a0\u00a0Pennsylvania pair\u2019s usual sailing adventure along the southwest coast took an unexpected turn when their boat began to sink.\u00a0 &nbsp; The couple was en route to Petites for the recent filming of a Land and Sea episode about the resettled port when they had to be rescued by fishermen from LaPoile. The tiny community has since taken them in while they await a solution. \u201cWe\u2019ve been sailing up this way for quite a long time,\u201d Kit Leary said via phone interview. \u201cI initially came up with my sister and brother-in-law.\u201d Leary first visited the area in 1992, and Adrienne Mendell, his wife and sailing partner, has been along for the trip since 1996. Read more. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29128,"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\/29139"}],"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=29139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29140,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29139\/revisions\/29140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}