{"id":39469,"date":"2022-08-11T13:59:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T13:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=39469"},"modified":"2022-08-11T13:59:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T13:59:03","slug":"successful-rescue-in-the-pacific-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2022\/08\/successful-rescue-in-the-pacific-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"Successful Rescue in the Pacific Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Sailingscuttlebutt.com) &#8211; USCG-licensed captain, instructor and rigging specialist Andy Schwenk (57, Point Richmond, CA) has been brought safely to land by a combination of Coast Guard, Air Force, commercial shipping, and assistance from a fellow yacht. A rapidly-spreading infection required the action.<br \/>\nSchwenk\u2019s Express 37 <em>Spindrift V<\/em> had completed the 2022 Pacific Cup from San Francisco to Hawaii, finishing first in her class on July 18. Returning to California, the boat faced heavy weather, damaging their mainsail and leading to an injury to Andy\u2019s ankle, which subsequently became infected.<br \/>\nVarious elements of <em>Spindrift<\/em>\u2019s communications tools were also damaged, leading to challenges in getting assistance. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sailingscuttlebutt.com\/2022\/08\/08\/successful-rescue-in-the-pacific-ocean\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Sailingscuttlebutt.com) &#8211; USCG-licensed captain, instructor and rigging specialist Andy Schwenk (57, Point Richmond, CA) has been brought safely to land by a combination of Coast Guard, Air Force, commercial shipping, and assistance from a fellow yacht. A rapidly-spreading infection required the action. Schwenk\u2019s Express 37 Spindrift V had completed the 2022 Pacific Cup from San Francisco to Hawaii, finishing first in her class on July 18. Returning to California, the boat faced heavy weather, damaging their mainsail and leading to an injury to Andy\u2019s ankle, which subsequently became infected. Various elements of Spindrift\u2019s communications tools were also damaged, leading to challenges in getting assistance. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":39462,"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\/39469"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39470,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39469\/revisions\/39470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}