{"id":22,"date":"2019-12-26T09:25:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T09:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/172.31.41.253\/2019\/12\/26\/sailing-comanche-grabs-early\/"},"modified":"2020-01-06T22:09:46","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T22:09:46","slug":"sailing-comanche-grabs-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pieroselvaggio.com\/2019\/12\/26\/sailing-comanche-grabs-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Sailing: Comanche grabs early lead after slow start in Sydney Hobart race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY (Reuters) &#8211; InfoTrack was first out of the Sydney Heads but 2017 line honors winner Comanche shrugged off a poor start to grab an early lead in the Sydney Hobart yacht race on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A blue sky greeted the fleet of 157 and InfoTrack led the pack at the 75th edition of the 630 nautical mile race.<\/p>\n<p>Comanche was fifth out of the heads but by the time the yachts had reached Cronulla, the downwind superiority of the super-maxi, co-owned by Jim Cooney and Samantha Grant, was evident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Comanche has come into her own. She is leading and holding us off,&#8221; InfoTrack&#8217;s navigator Brad Kellett reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can\u2019t do anything about Comanche. We will just sail to the best of our ability. The race is anyone&#8217;s.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The start of the race was officially declared clear, with no boats breaking the start lines.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Stefica Nicol Bikes in Sydney; writing by Amlan Chakraborty; editing by Jason Neely)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY (Reuters) &#8211; InfoTrack was first out of the Sydney Heads but 2017 line honors&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieroselvaggio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieroselvaggio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieroselvaggio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieroselvaggio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieroselvaggio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pieroselvaggio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieroselvaggio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieroselvaggio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieroselvaggio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}