{"id":252,"date":"2009-01-17T11:45:24","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T16:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/?p=252"},"modified":"2009-02-23T22:39:10","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T03:39:10","slug":"sailing-anarchy-flying-tiger-controversy-and-false-americas-cup-bravado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/2009\/01\/17\/sailing-anarchy-flying-tiger-controversy-and-false-americas-cup-bravado\/","title":{"rendered":"Sailing Anarchy: Flying Tiger Controversy and False America&#8217;s Cup Bravado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the &#8220;You Can&#8217;t Make This Stuff Up Department&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>Sailing Anarchy &#8220;Editor&#8221; Scot Tempesta has raised some eyebrows among the Flying Tiger fleet, by attempting some underhanded methods to exclude a well-respected and liked competitor from participation:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forums.sailinganarchy.com\/index.php?showtopic=84487 target=\"_blank\"\">Flying Tiger thread on SA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Sailing Anarchy contributors have apparently paid more than $14,000 to fund a delusional effort to launch an America&#8217;s Cup challenge&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forums.sailinganarchy.com\/index.php?showtopic=84745\" target=\"_blank\">Who&#8217;s Donated? <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"hhttp:\/\/forums.sailinganarchy.com\/index.php?&#038;showtopic=85761\" target=\"_blank\">Where is the money? <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;add to the list of things that make you go, &#8220;hmmm&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One Question: <\/p>\n<p>Will the boat be named after <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Crowhurst\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Crowhurst<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_Madoff\" target=\"_blank\">Bernie Madoff<\/a>!?!   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the &#8220;You Can&#8217;t Make This Stuff Up Department&#8221;: Sailing Anarchy &#8220;Editor&#8221; Scot Tempesta has raised some eyebrows among the Flying Tiger fleet, by attempting some underhanded methods to exclude a well-respected and liked competitor from participation: Flying Tiger thread on SA Meanwhile, Sailing Anarchy contributors have apparently paid more than $14,000 to fund a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailfastchicago.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}