{"id":31228,"date":"2018-07-03T12:54:16","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T12:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=31228"},"modified":"2018-07-03T12:54:16","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T12:54:16","slug":"broken-rudder-ends-bermuda-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2018\/07\/broken-rudder-ends-bermuda-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken Rudder Ends Bermuda Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A broken rudder left <\/em>Bailiwick<em>\u2018s crew out of the race and with an even bigger challenge, to steer the 40-foot sloop to safety in Bermuda. <\/em>By Chris Museler, bermudarace.com<\/p>\n<p>No amount of inspections could have helped prevent what happened to the Blue Jacket 40 <em>Bailiwick<\/em> late Tuesday night during the 2018 Newport Bermuda Race. The team was finally released into the strong 20-knot reaching conditions they had hoped for, when Carol Tobian suddenly lost steerage.<\/p>\n<p>With two reefs in the main and a 100 percent jib, <em>Bailiwick<\/em> continued reaching along at eight to nine knots but Tobian was free spinning the wheel. \u201cI asked, \u2018Are you sure?\u2019\u201d watch captain Steve Burton told us. \u201cWhen I saw the wheel spin, that\u2019s when I called \u2018All hands.\u2019\u201d The carbon-fiber rudder post had broken where it exits the hull, and the rudder was gone. <a href=\"http:\/\/bermudarace.com\/jury-rigged-rudder-steers-bailiwick-for-last-100-miles-to-bermuda\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A broken rudder left Bailiwick\u2018s crew out of the race and with an even bigger challenge, to steer the 40-foot sloop to safety in Bermuda. By Chris Museler, bermudarace.com No amount of inspections could have helped prevent what happened to the Blue Jacket 40 Bailiwick late Tuesday night during the 2018 Newport Bermuda Race. The team was finally released into the strong 20-knot reaching conditions they had hoped for, when Carol Tobian suddenly lost steerage. With two reefs in the main and a 100 percent jib, Bailiwick continued reaching along at eight to nine knots but Tobian was free spinning the wheel. \u201cI asked, \u2018Are you sure?\u2019\u201d watch captain Steve Burton told us. \u201cWhen I saw the wheel spin, that\u2019s when I called \u2018All hands.\u2019\u201d The carbon-fiber rudder post had broken where it exits the hull, and the rudder was gone. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":31229,"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\/31228"}],"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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31231,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31228\/revisions\/31231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}