{"id":30674,"date":"2018-05-02T18:15:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T18:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=30674"},"modified":"2018-05-02T18:19:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T18:19:37","slug":"volvo-ocean-race-sailing-to-newport-ri-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2018\/05\/volvo-ocean-race-sailing-to-newport-ri-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Volvo Ocean Race Sailing to Newport, RI Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The trade winds are allowing the Volvo Ocean Race fleet to post 500-mile days as they push northwards to the finish in Newport, Rhode Island.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>May 02, 201812:59 UTC: Written by Will Carson &#8212; &#8220;The Volvo Ocean Race teams were enjoying full-speed trade wind sailing on Wednesday as they knocked off the miles to the Leg 8 finish in Newport, Rhode Island. Stage leaders <em>Team Brunel<\/em> continue to set the pace as they blast along at more than 22 knots, matching the wind for speed, and holding a narrow 15-mile jump on second-placed <em>Dongfeng Race Team<\/em>.\u00a0The top trio, which also includes <em>Turn the Tide on Plastic<\/em>, were less than 30 miles apart as the battle for Leg 8 supremacy continued on the tenth day at sea. Just over 2,300 miles remain between the leaders and the finish line.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.volvooceanrace.com\/en\/news\/11625_Miles-falling-away-as-fleet-speeds-towards-Newport.html\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trade winds are allowing the Volvo Ocean Race fleet to post 500-mile days as they push northwards to the finish in Newport, Rhode Island. &nbsp; May 02, 201812:59 UTC: Written by Will Carson &#8212; &#8220;The Volvo Ocean Race teams were enjoying full-speed trade wind sailing on Wednesday as they knocked off the miles to the Leg 8 finish in Newport, Rhode Island. Stage leaders Team Brunel continue to set the pace as they blast along at more than 22 knots, matching the wind for speed, and holding a narrow 15-mile jump on second-placed Dongfeng Race Team.\u00a0The top trio, which also includes Turn the Tide on Plastic, were less than 30 miles apart as the battle for Leg 8 supremacy continued on the tenth day at sea. Just over 2,300 miles remain between the leaders and the finish line.&#8221; Read more. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30656,"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\/30674"}],"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=30674"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30679,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30674\/revisions\/30679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}