{"id":30543,"date":"2018-04-18T16:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T16:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=30543"},"modified":"2018-04-18T16:00:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T16:00:43","slug":"man-tragically-crushed-by-own-yacht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2018\/04\/man-tragically-crushed-by-own-yacht\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Tragically Crushed by Own Yacht"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A tragic accident has taken the life of a company director in England when his 29-foot yacht fell over in her pop stands while he was working on it recently.\u00a0 As reported in<\/em> The Mirror, <em>the 56-year-old was a member of the Weymouth Sailing Club and had been performing maintenance on the half-tonne wooden vessel when the accident occurred.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A yachtsman has been crushed to death by his own boat which fell on him while he worked on it at a yacht club.\u00a0The 56-year-old man was carrying out general repairs beneath the 29ft\u00a0sailing yacht\u00a0when it suddenly toppled over on to him.\u00a0He was found under the half-a-ton wooden vessel and although ambulance paramedics tried to save him, he was pronounced dead at the Weymouth Sailing Club in Dorset.\u00a0Members there said the victim, thought to be a company director, had joined the club a year ago after moving to the area.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/company-director-crushed-death-29ft-12379375\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tragic accident has taken the life of a company director in England when his 29-foot yacht fell over in her pop stands while he was working on it recently.\u00a0 As reported in The Mirror, the 56-year-old was a member of the Weymouth Sailing Club and had been performing maintenance on the half-tonne wooden vessel when the accident occurred. &nbsp; &#8220;A yachtsman has been crushed to death by his own boat which fell on him while he worked on it at a yacht club.\u00a0The 56-year-old man was carrying out general repairs beneath the 29ft\u00a0sailing yacht\u00a0when it suddenly toppled over on to him.\u00a0He was found under the half-a-ton wooden vessel and although ambulance paramedics tried to save him, he was pronounced dead at the Weymouth Sailing Club in Dorset.\u00a0Members there said the victim, thought to be a company director, had joined the club a year ago after moving to the area.&#8221; Read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30529,"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\/30543"}],"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=30543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30545,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30543\/revisions\/30545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}