{"id":504,"date":"2015-02-19T09:23:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T09:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.croydonsailingclub.co.uk\/?p=504"},"modified":"2015-02-19T09:23:33","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T09:23:33","slug":"picos-prove-popular-boats-in-gusty-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.croydonsailingclub.co.uk\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"Picos prove popular boats in gusty winds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its \u00a0the 11th January; its cold, around 5 degrees Celsius \u00a0and the winds forecast to \u00a0gust up to 27 miles per hour, \u00a0that&#8217;s force 6 !<\/p>\n<p>Club members, looking forward to a sail but not a ducking in the water, \u00a0decided to take out club \u00a0picos instead of their own dinghies as they are very stable.<\/p>\n<p>There were 3 capsizes, but the \u00a0dinghies are easy to right and \u00a0so the sailors were back \u00a0in the race.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Michael our winner \u00a0and all \u00a0six competitors who defied the weather .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was great fun, I enjoyed it&#8221;, commented Tony. &#8221; I will definitely take a pico out again when there are \u00a0in strong winds on the lake&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Club now plans to have \u00a0a special Pico race event in March .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.croydonsailingclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/3boats-pref.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-502\" src=\"http:\/\/www.croydonsailingclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/3boats-pref-480x360.jpg\" alt=\"3boats pref\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.croydonsailingclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/3boats-pref-480x360.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.croydonsailingclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/3boats-pref.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its \u00a0the 11th January; its cold, around 5 degrees Celsius \u00a0and the winds forecast to \u00a0gust up to 27 miles per hour, \u00a0that&#8217;s force 6 ! Club members, looking forward to a sail but not a ducking in the water, \u00a0decided to take out club \u00a0picos instead of their own dinghies as they are very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.croydonsailingclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.croydonsailingclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.croydonsailingclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.croydonsailingclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.croydonsailingclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.croydonsailingclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"https:\/\/www.croydonsailingclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.croydonsailingclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.croydonsailingclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.croydonsailingclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.croydonsailingclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}