{"id":32282,"date":"2013-02-28T00:10:04","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T05:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=32282"},"modified":"2013-02-28T00:33:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T05:33:34","slug":"bahamas-destined-sailboat-beached-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/02\/bahamas-destined-sailboat-beached-in-florida","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas-Destined Sailboat Beached In Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32283\" title=\"beached-sailboat\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/beached-sailboat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/beached-sailboat.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/beached-sailboat-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/beached-sailboat-250x187.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>As two tug boats closed in on the beached sailboat on South Ponte Vedra Beach, spectators gathered.<\/p>\n<p>A crew member swam a buoy and tether line from tug boats to the sailboat. Once it was attached, the tugging began.<\/p>\n<p>During the process, the sailboat&#8217;s owner and his friend walked onto the beach.<\/p>\n<p>They were the ones who were on the boat when it came ashore.<\/p>\n<p>The adventure started when Jerry Willis, 71, agreed to help out his friend, Frank Saunders, 86.\u00a0 Saunders wanted to take the vessel to the Bahamas from Port St. Lucie, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Anywhere from 5 to 7 days they were unable to call for help because they couldn&#8217;t charge their marine radio.<\/p>\n<p>They only had a sail, and then they hit bad weather.<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"flashObj\" width=\"486\" height=\"412\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\"><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=2193754101001&amp;playerID=35104629001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAACCo2HcE~,Xq6bv4z8O3Vypjqp8SRaPWSEmhvW8Iso&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"videoId=2193754101001&amp;playerID=35104629001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAACCo2HcE~,Xq6bv4z8O3Vypjqp8SRaPWSEmhvW8Iso&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swliveconnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"pluginspage\" value=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" \/><embed id=\"flashObj\" width=\"486\" height=\"412\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1\" flashVars=\"videoId=2193754101001&amp;playerID=35104629001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAACCo2HcE~,Xq6bv4z8O3Vypjqp8SRaPWSEmhvW8Iso&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" swLiveConnect=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" flashvars=\"videoId=2193754101001&amp;playerID=35104629001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAACCo2HcE~,Xq6bv4z8O3Vypjqp8SRaPWSEmhvW8Iso&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" swliveconnect=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Willis, 71 and Frank Saunders, 86 were aiming to take the vessel to the Bahamas from Port St. Lucie, Florida but they hit bad weather and washed up on a beach in Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[66,107],"class_list":["post-32282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-boating","tag-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}