{"id":29739,"date":"2018-01-18T11:57:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T11:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=29739"},"modified":"2018-01-18T11:57:50","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T11:57:50","slug":"giant-tri-foiled-in-world-record-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2018\/01\/giant-tri-foiled-in-world-record-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Tri Foiled in World Record Attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>There are those who will tell you that<\/em> Sprindrift<em> is jinxed. The giant trimaran, which has broken several sailing records over its career, also has a history of falling apart at inopportune moments. That\u2019s just what happened earlier this week when the big boat lost its rig on the way to yet another round-the-world record breaking attempt starting in off the west coast of France. Read all about it in the report in<\/em> Yachts and Yachting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Spindrift 2 dismasts on way to start of Jules Verne Trophy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Spindrift racing 15 Jan 18:33 GMT<em>15 January 2018<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As the giant trimaran made its way to the Cr\u00e9ac&#8217;h lighthouse (Isle of Ouessant) for a second attempt at the Jules Verne Trophy, Spindrift 2 dismasted at about 1615h today (Monday 15 January 2018), south of Pointe Saint-Mathieu in a strong 30 knot westerly breeze and rough seas.\u00a0Spindrift 2 was ready for this new attempt around the world with a relatively favorable weather window, after a long two-month stand-by at La Trinit\u00e9 sur Mer and then in Brest, Brittany. Read the full story.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.yachtsandyachting.com\/news\/201173<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are those who will tell you that Sprindrift is jinxed. The giant trimaran, which has broken several sailing records over its career, also has a history of falling apart at inopportune moments. That\u2019s just what happened earlier this week when the big boat lost its rig on the way to yet another round-the-world record breaking attempt starting in off the west coast of France. Read all about it in the report in Yachts and Yachting. \u00a0 Spindrift 2 dismasts on way to start of Jules Verne Trophy by Spindrift racing 15 Jan 18:33 GMT15 January 2018 &nbsp; As the giant trimaran made its way to the Cr\u00e9ac&#8217;h lighthouse (Isle of Ouessant) for a second attempt at the Jules Verne Trophy, Spindrift 2 dismasted at about 1615h today (Monday 15 January 2018), south of Pointe Saint-Mathieu in a strong 30 knot westerly breeze and rough seas.\u00a0Spindrift 2 was ready for this new attempt around the world with a relatively favorable weather window, after a long two-month stand-by at La Trinit\u00e9 sur Mer and then in Brest, Brittany. Read the full story. &nbsp; http:\/\/www.yachtsandyachting.com\/news\/201173<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29733,"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\/29739"}],"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=29739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29740,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29739\/revisions\/29740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}