{"id":65965,"date":"2011-09-12T18:42:28","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T22:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/?p=65965"},"modified":"2023-06-16T16:40:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T20:40:45","slug":"2011-rolex-big-boat-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/racing\/2011-rolex-big-boat-series\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 Rolex Big Boat Series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Photos by Rolex \/ Daniel Forster. See<\/a> video footage from the racecourse courtesy of Media Pro. Read<\/a> about the racing in our Finish Line forum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n Fleet, Class: IRC B<\/span>\n Daniel Forster<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n
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\n WICKED- Sail Number: USA 5, Owner: Richard Courcier, Home Port: Tahoe City, CA, USA, Yacht Type: Farr 36, Class: IRC C<\/span>\n Daniel Forster<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n
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\n VELOS- Sail Number: USA 22208, Owner: Kjeld Hestehave, Home Port: Temecula, CA, USA, Yacht Type: Tanton 73, Class: IRC A<\/span>\n Daniel Forster<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n
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\n STANDARD DEVIATION- Sail Number: USA 320, Owner: William Markel, Home Port: Orchard Park, NY, USA, Yacht Type: Farr 30, Class: Farr 30<\/span>\n Daniel Forster<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n
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\n NEFARIOUS- Sail Number: USA 53, Owner: Daniel Randolph, Home Port: Seattle, WA, USA, Yacht Type: Farr 30, Class: Farr 30<\/span>\n Daniel Forster<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n
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\n flee J105<\/span>\n Daniel Forster<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n
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\n Fleet and fog<\/span>\n Daniel Forster<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n
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\n Start J 105<\/span>\n Daniel Forster<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n
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\n PEREGRINE- Sail Number: USA 25487, Owner: David Halliwill, Home Port: New York, NY, USA, Yacht Type: J 120, Class: J 120\rDESDEMONA- Sail Number: USA 28486, Owner: John S. Wimer, Home Port: Half Moon Bay, CA, USA, Yacht Type: J 120, Class: J 120<\/span>\n Daniel Forster<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n
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\n GOLDEN MOON- Sail Number: USA 18488, Owner: Kame Richards, Home Port: Alameda, CA, USA, Yacht Type: Express 37, Class: Express 37<\/span>\n Daniel Forster<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n
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\n JAM SESSION- Sail Number: USA 434, Owner: Adam Spiegel, Home Port: San Francisco, CA, USA, Yacht Type: J 105, Class: J 105\rGODOT- Sail Number: USA 44, Owner: Phillip Laby, Home Port: San Francisco, CA, USA, Yacht Type: J 105, Class: J 105<\/span>\n Daniel Forster<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n
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\n VESPER- Sail Number: USA 52007, Owner: Jim Swartz, Home Port: Park City, UT, USA, Yacht Type: TP 52, Class: IRC A<\/span>\n Daniel Forster<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n
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\n DOUBLE TROUBLE- Sail Number: USA 93204, Owner: Andy Costello, Home Port: Pt Richmond, CA, USA, Yacht Type: J 125, Class: IRC C<\/span>\n Daniel Forster<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n
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\n Fleet down wind J 105 class off Alcatraz<\/span>\n Daniel Forster<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n
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\n CHANCE- Sail Number: USA 28484, Owner: Barry Lewis, Home Port: Atherton, CA, USA, Yacht Type: J 120, Class: J 120<\/span>\n Daniel Forster<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n
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\n BLADE RUNNER- Sail Number: USA 87549, Owner: Michael Shlens, Home Port: Palos Verdes Est., CA, USA, Yacht Type: Express 37, Class: Express 37<\/span>\n Daniel Forster<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

San Francsico Bay served up big breeze for the 81 boats competing in this 47-year-old event, which provided plenty of thrills and spills for spectators at St. Francis YC. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"BS_author_type":"BS_author_is_guest","BS_guest_author_name":"Sailing World Staff","BS_guest_author_url":"","hydra_display_date":"20110912","hydra_display_updated":false,"_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":"159","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"San Francsico Bay served up big breeze for the 81 boats competing in this 47-year-old event, which provided plenty of thrills and spills for spectators at St. Francis YC. Photos by Rolex \/ Daniel Forster See video footage from the racecourse courtesy of Media Pro. Read about the racing in our Finish Line forum.","_yoast_wpseo_title":"2011 Rolex Big Boat Series %%sep%% %%sitename%%","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","arc_story_id":"VOIUFUYBY44M3QPIT733D4FNGE","arc_website_url":"racing\/2011-rolex-big-boat-series\/","custom_permalink":"","arc_subtype":"right-sidebar","arc_exclude_from_feeds":false,"sponsored":false,"sponsored_label":"Sponsored Content","sponsored_display_label":false,"sponsored_image":false,"post_right_rail":true,"post_right_rail_ad_1":true,"post_right_rail_ad_2":true,"post_right_rail_ad_3":false,"post_right_rail_ad_4":false,"post_right_rail_recirc":true,"fixed_anchor_ad":true,"post_top_ad":true,"post_off_ramp":true,"post_taboola":false,"labels":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":"","sponsored_url":"","social_share":true,"ad_settings_ads_on_this_page":true,"ad_settings_automatic_ad_injection_into_the_content":true,"ad_targeting":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[470,298,178,332],"class_list":["post-65965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-racing","tag-j-105","tag-keelboat","tag-sailboat-racing","tag-west-coast"],"acf":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}