{"id":30612,"date":"2018-04-24T18:14:36","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T18:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=30612"},"modified":"2018-04-24T18:15:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T18:15:18","slug":"jeanneaus-sun-fast-3600-is-a-screamer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2018\/04\/jeanneaus-sun-fast-3600-is-a-screamer\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeanneau&#8217;s Sun Fast 3600 is a Screamer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The meaning of \u2018performance\u2019 in modern, production monohulls continues to evolve and the Jeanneau 3600 is leading the way.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Back in September, before the Newport International Boat show, I got a text from my older son Simon Day. He was having lunch with friends at The Moorings restaurant on Newport, RI\u2019s waterfront, and parked right in front of him was a boat that pricked his interest. He photographed it and texted it to me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is this boat? Really cool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I texted back that it is the new Jeanneau 3600 and, yes, indeed, it looks very cool. To get some perspective on the meaning of \u201ccool\u2019 in this context it is good to know that Simon is a yacht designer and an accomplished sailor, has raced his own Mini 6.5 in offshore events and regularly crews on Class 40s, including last summer\u2019s Fastnet Race.\u00a0 He\u2019s into broad beams, hard chines, twin rudders, overpowered boats that are designed to plane and are set up for singlehanders and smaller crews of three or four to race or cruise offshore.<\/p>\n<p>That the boat moored in front of him that day had all of these attributes while also looking like a production boat is what pricked his interest.\u00a0 So, I concluded my text with the question, \u201cWant to come on the sail trial next weekend?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor sure,\u201d came the reply.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/blue-water-sailing\/boat-reviews-jeanneau-sun-fast-36\/\">Read more.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The meaning of \u2018performance\u2019 in modern, production monohulls continues to evolve and the Jeanneau 3600 is leading the way.\u00a0\u00a0 &nbsp; Back in September, before the Newport International Boat show, I got a text from my older son Simon Day. He was having lunch with friends at The Moorings restaurant on Newport, RI\u2019s waterfront, and parked right in front of him was a boat that pricked his interest. He photographed it and texted it to me. \u201cWhat is this boat? Really cool.\u201d I texted back that it is the new Jeanneau 3600 and, yes, indeed, it looks very cool. To get some perspective on the meaning of \u201ccool\u2019 in this context it is good to know that Simon is a yacht designer and an accomplished sailor, has raced his own Mini 6.5 in offshore events and regularly crews on Class 40s, including last summer\u2019s Fastnet Race.\u00a0 He\u2019s into broad beams, hard chines, twin rudders, overpowered boats that are designed to plane and are set up for singlehanders and smaller crews of three or four to race or cruise offshore. That the boat moored in front of him that day had all of these attributes while also looking like a production boat &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30612"}],"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=30612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30614,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30612\/revisions\/30614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}