{"id":58,"date":"2008-06-22T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-22T10:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/dinghies\/index.php\/2008\/06\/22\/finn-gbr-662\/"},"modified":"2008-06-22T15:34:56","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T15:34:56","slug":"finn-gbr-662","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/dinghies\/index.php\/2008\/06\/22\/finn-gbr-662\/","title":{"rendered":"Finn &#8211; GBR662"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After sailing the Fairey Finn for a season, I was hooked on the class and sold the Australian IC (GBR 304) to pay for a well sorted Vanguard Finn. This boat had come from Germany and had been breathed on with a replacement transom and updated fittings, a round carbon rig and film sail.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/dinghies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/finn3a.JPG\" alt=\"finn3a.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Being a German boat in origin, I decided a German name was applicable and was able to give the boat a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rammstein.com\">Rammstein<\/a> theme, so the boat was named Reise Reise. After a season I was winning club races, and even won a series &#8211; something unheard of when sailing ICs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/dinghies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/finn1.JPG\" alt=\"finn1.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Having got the Finn bug I was about to upgrade the mast to a Carbon Wing mast, but found out about the used Pata boats taken in part exchange for new boats&#8230;&#8230;So, Reise Reise was sold to the only other Finn sailing Rammstein fan to fund the purchase of GBR 670.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/dinghies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/imgp1474.JPG\" alt=\"imgp1474.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After sailing the Fairey Finn for a season, I was hooked on the class and sold the Australian IC (GBR 304) to pay for a well sorted Vanguard Finn. This boat had come from Germany and had been breathed on with a replacement transom and updated fittings, a round carbon rig and film sail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,17],"tags":[25,36],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finn-gbr662","category-finns","category-previous-boats","tag-finn","tag-gbr662"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/dinghies\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/dinghies\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/dinghies\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/dinghies\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/dinghies\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/dinghies\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/dinghies\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/dinghies\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pegasus18.com\/dinghies\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}