{"id":14932,"date":"2011-01-20T02:26:08","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T07:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=14932"},"modified":"2011-01-20T02:26:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T07:26:10","slug":"americas-cup-trainer-this-is-going-to-be-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/americas-cup-trainer-this-is-going-to-be-great\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Cup Trainer &#8211; This Is Going To Be Great!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"AC45NZ1D8_4389.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/AC45NZ1D8_4389.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"AC45NZ1D8_4389.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There has been a ton of controversy about the format of the next America&#8217;s Cup, to take place in 72 foot wing-masted cats. Part of the package is a 45 foot &#8220;trainer&#8221; to get the crews up to speed on sailing with a wing.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"AC45NZ1D8_4468.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/AC45NZ1D8_4468.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"AC45NZ1D8_4468.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first of the trainers has been launched in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"AC45NZ1D8_4357.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/AC45NZ1D8_4357.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"AC45NZ1D8_4357.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the second day of trials they were doing 30 knots in 20 knots of breeze.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"AC45NZ1D7_4185.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/AC45NZ1D7_4185.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"AC45NZ1D7_4185.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To those of you bored by this event imagine racing in a big sister with tacking and jibing faster than any monuhull ever dreamed, at twice the speed of the traditional keel boats.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"AC45NZ1D7_4040(2).jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/AC45NZ1D7_40402.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"AC45NZ1D7_4040(2).jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We submit this is going to be an amazing event for sailors and general public. Our hats are off to Larry Ellison and Russ Couttes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a ton of controversy about the format of the next America&#8217;s Cup, to take place in 72 <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/americas-cup-trainer-this-is-going-to-be-great\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}