{"id":2307,"date":"2011-10-20T07:52:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T12:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2307"},"modified":"2011-10-20T07:52:15","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T12:52:15","slug":"sailrocket-surpasses-54-knots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2307","title":{"rendered":"SAILROCKET SURPASSES 54 KNOTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>From Paul Larsen aboard\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sailrocket.com\/\">Sailrocket<\/a>\u00a0in Namibia<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Hi all, just a quick one to say that we have punched through 54 knots, 62 mph and 100 kmh. The fun part is that we did it two up and VESTAS Sailrocket 2 was far from optimally trimmed. It was a wild ride. The day was quite unsettled but I decided to make the most of it and take Adam from WIRED USA for a shot in the back seat. We have never sailed two up before. VSR2 struggled to get started but once she found her feet&#8230; WHOOSKA! It was a crazy ride that took me&#8230;well&#8230; I&#8217;ll do the full update tomorrow. I just saw the photos and they are wild. Adam had the ride of his life. In 1 ride he&#8217;s been as fast as I&#8217;ve ever been.<\/p>\n<p>This boat will do the business. It WILL beat the current world record. I know that now. The question is how much we can get out of it. Triple rum and cokes in a pint glass are the drinks for a new best speed. So where are we with the new foil? I don&#8217;t know&#8230; all I know is that it&#8217;s fast. There is so much to tell about that last full-on run.<\/p>\n<p>Update to follow&#8230; everyone is sitting here madly downloading data, HD video footage and photo&#8217;s&#8230; and slurping on rum. We are still sailors remember.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers, Paul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Paul Larsen aboard\u00a0Sailrocket\u00a0in Namibia: Hi all, just a quick one to say that we have punched through 54 knots, 62 mph and 100 kmh. The fun part is that we did it two up and VESTAS Sailrocket 2 was far from optimally trimmed. It was a wild ride. The day was quite unsettled but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2307\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SAILROCKET SURPASSES 54 KNOTS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[456],"tags":[973,455,2499],"class_list":["post-2307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sailrocket","tag-nambia","tag-paul-larsen","tag-sailrocket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2308,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307\/revisions\/2308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}