{"id":4998,"date":"2021-03-11T07:05:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T07:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saltybag.com\/1023-k8\/"},"modified":"2021-04-08T09:13:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T09:13:05","slug":"1023-k8","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/saltybag.com\/el\/saltystories\/1023-k8\/","title":{"rendered":"1023"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">1023<\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 0px;\">K8<\/h5>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\">Candida<\/h6>\n<p>Type of Sail: <strong style=\"font-weight: 600;\">Jib<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Age: <strong style=\"font-weight: 600;\">20 years old<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Material: <strong style=\"font-weight: 600;\">Dacron<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lived in: <strong style=\"font-weight: 600;\">Phaleron Bay, Italy, UK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Distance Travelled: <strong style=\"font-weight: 600;\">A few thousand miles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Places most visited: <strong style=\"font-weight: 600;\">Phaleron bay, Koufonisia, Spetses<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sail Number: <strong style=\"font-weight: 600;\">K8<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Salty Bags designed for the Corfu Challenge 2017 skippers are made of a piece of yacht racing history.<\/p>\n<p>This sailcloth was once the jib of Candida.<\/p>\n<p>Designed by Charles Nicholson 1929 as a 23mr rule yacht, Candida was converted to a J-class in 1931, before unsuccessfully trying to win the challenger trials. <\/p>\n<p>She was fully restored in 1995. She still sails, occasionally races, in the eastern Mediterranean nowadays, reminding her owners of the majesty of sailingl, to race, to enjoy the sea as humans have always done.<\/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\/1023-k8\/\" data-a2a-title=\"1023\"><a class=\"a2a_button_facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/facebook?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fsaltybag.com%2Fel%2Fsaltystories%2F1023-k8%2F&amp;linkname=1023\" 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%2F1023-k8%2F&amp;linkname=1023\" 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%2F1023-k8%2F&amp;linkname=1023\" 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>K8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saltybag.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/4998"}],"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\/4998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8138,"href":"https:\/\/saltybag.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/4998\/revisions\/8138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saltybag.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}