{"id":4917,"date":"2021-03-11T07:04:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T07:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saltybag.com\/1135-a-rare-european-championship-racing-sail\/"},"modified":"2021-04-08T09:24:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T09:24:45","slug":"1135-a-rare-european-championship-racing-sail","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/saltybag.com\/el\/saltystories\/1135-a-rare-european-championship-racing-sail\/","title":{"rendered":"1135"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1135<\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 0px;\">A rare European Championship racing sail<\/h5>\n<p>Type of Sail: <strong style=\"font-weight: 600;\">Spinnaker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Years in use: <strong style=\"font-weight: 600;\">Early 2000 till 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Material: <strong style=\"font-weight: 600;\">Ripstop Nylon sailcloth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Port: <strong style=\"font-weight: 600;\">Porto Carras (last port)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Distance Travelled: <strong style=\"font-weight: 600;\">Probably over 1000 nm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Places most visited: <strong style=\"font-weight: 600;\">The North Aegean<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sail Number: <strong style=\"font-weight: 600;\">N\/A<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This light spinnaker was last used in the Offshore Racing Councils\u2019 European Championships which took place in Porto Carras, Halkidiki, Greece in 2016. A difficult race that saw competitors brave unusually strong squalls on the first or second day along with light and really fluky weather for the long offshore coastal racing the race was marred by an Italian crew who spectacularaly cheated during the weigh-in of their boat. <\/p>\n<p>The Nautical Club of Thesalloniki ran these European Championships in a venue that has hosted and amazed sailors from around the world for the last 40 years. As the locals proudly say, there is no home like Halkidiki. <\/p>\n<p><!--AddtoAny scripts --><br \/>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.addtoany.com\/menu\/svg\/icons.29.svg.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.addtoany.com\/menu\/page.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/saltybag.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/addtoany.min.js?ver=1.1\" id=\"addtoany-js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!--AddtoAny scripts --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: -80px;\"><div class=\"addtoany_shortcode\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list\" data-a2a-url=\"https:\/\/saltybag.com\/el\/saltystories\/1135-a-rare-european-championship-racing-sail\/\" data-a2a-title=\"1135\"><a class=\"a2a_button_facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/facebook?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fsaltybag.com%2Fel%2Fsaltystories%2F1135-a-rare-european-championship-racing-sail%2F&amp;linkname=1135\" title=\"Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a class=\"a2a_button_twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/twitter?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fsaltybag.com%2Fel%2Fsaltystories%2F1135-a-rare-european-championship-racing-sail%2F&amp;linkname=1135\" title=\"Twitter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a class=\"a2a_button_email\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/email?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fsaltybag.com%2Fel%2Fsaltystories%2F1135-a-rare-european-championship-racing-sail%2F&amp;linkname=1135\" title=\"Email\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save addtoany_share\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\"><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rare European Championship racing sail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saltybag.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/4917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saltybag.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saltybag.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stories"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saltybag.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/saltybag.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/4917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8215,"href":"https:\/\/saltybag.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/4917\/revisions\/8215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saltybag.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}