{"id":29995,"date":"2018-02-22T12:51:20","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T12:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=29995"},"modified":"2018-02-22T12:52:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T12:52:22","slug":"wild-start-to-caribbean-600-as-fujin-capsizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2018\/02\/wild-start-to-caribbean-600-as-fujin-capsizes\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild start to Caribbean 600 as Fujin capsizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Caribbean 600 is the big distance race in the Caribbean every winter and it attracts\u00a0 a large fleet of the most exotic racing and cruising boats that are wintering in the sunny tropics. This year, the 600 got off with a bang. Read all about it in this report for <\/em>Yachts and Yachting<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By\u00a0 \u00a0Toby Heppell<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Greg Slyngstad\u2019s American Bieker 53 multihull<em> Fujin<\/em> has capsized during the RORC Caribbean 600.\u00a0All eight crew are reported to be safe. Stephen Cucchiaro\u2019s Gunboat 60 <em>Flow<\/em> stood by until Dutch\/ French authorities organised a rescue vessel. Preparations are now underway to transfer all crew to the safety of Port Saba.<\/p>\n<p>RORC Race Manager Chris Stone issued a statement on behalf of the race organisers, The Royal Ocean Racing Club: \u201cOn Monday 19th February at 20:20 AST, <em>Fujin<\/em> capsized close to Saba Island and the eight-man crew were observed standing on the up-turned hull. All of the crew are now safe. Stephen Cucchiaro\u2019s Gunboat 60 <em>Flow<\/em> stood by while rescue agencies coordinated the rescue efforts. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yachtsandyachting.co.uk\/articles\/news-and-events\/wild-start-caribbean-600-fujin-capsizes\/\">Read more.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Caribbean 600 is the big distance race in the Caribbean every winter and it attracts\u00a0 a large fleet of the most exotic racing and cruising boats that are wintering in the sunny tropics. This year, the 600 got off with a bang. Read all about it in this report for Yachts and Yachting. &nbsp; By\u00a0 \u00a0Toby Heppell &nbsp; Greg Slyngstad\u2019s American Bieker 53 multihull Fujin has capsized during the RORC Caribbean 600.\u00a0All eight crew are reported to be safe. Stephen Cucchiaro\u2019s Gunboat 60 Flow stood by until Dutch\/ French authorities organised a rescue vessel. Preparations are now underway to transfer all crew to the safety of Port Saba. RORC Race Manager Chris Stone issued a statement on behalf of the race organisers, The Royal Ocean Racing Club: \u201cOn Monday 19th February at 20:20 AST, Fujin capsized close to Saba Island and the eight-man crew were observed standing on the up-turned hull. All of the crew are now safe. Stephen Cucchiaro\u2019s Gunboat 60 Flow stood by while rescue agencies coordinated the rescue efforts. Read more.\u00a0 &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29986,"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\/29995"}],"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=29995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29998,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29995\/revisions\/29998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}