{"id":208,"date":"2007-03-27T16:55:41","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T15:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/?p=208"},"modified":"2007-03-27T16:55:41","modified_gmt":"2007-03-27T15:55:41","slug":"fairy-tale-finish-for-blue-water-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/2007\/03\/27\/fairy-tale-finish-for-blue-water-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairy tale finish for Blue Water Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Ed Psaltis left and Bob Thomas    Lisa Ratcliff .jpg\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/Ed%20Psaltis%20left%20and%20Bob%20Thomas%20%20%20%20Lisa%20Ratcliff%20.jpg\"><img alt=\"Ed Psaltis left and Bob Thomas    Lisa Ratcliff .jpg\" id=\"image207\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/Ed%20Psaltis%20left%20and%20Bob%20Thomas%20%20%20%20Lisa%20Ratcliff%20.jpg\" \/><\/a>After 18 years of trying to win the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia&#39;s prestigious Blue Water Pointscore Series, it&#39;s been a &#8216;fairy tale ending&#8217; for co-skippers Ed Psaltis and Bob Thomas who received worldwide attention when they won the storm battered 1998 Sydney Hobart Yacht Race on overall handicap in their tiny Hick 35. Read the <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"faerieworlds Sailing Story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sail-world.com:80\/news_std.cfm?Nid=32003&#038;rid=1&#038;sc=arc\">story in full here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 18 years of trying to win the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia&#39;s prestigious Blue Water Pointscore Series, it&#39;s been a &#8216;fairy tale ending&#8217; for co-skippers Ed Psaltis and Bob Thomas who received worldwide attention when they won the storm battered 1998 Sydney Hobart Yacht Race on overall handicap in their tiny Hick 35. Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}