{"id":67652,"date":"2014-06-05T09:31:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T13:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=67652"},"modified":"2014-07-04T11:59:49","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T15:59:49","slug":"founding-father-donates-to-greatest-show-regatta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/06\/founding-father-donates-to-greatest-show-regatta","title":{"rendered":"Founding Father Donates to Greatest Show Regatta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67663\" alt=\"cat-island-sailing-club\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/cat-island-sailing-club.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"325\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Cat Island Sailing Club Association recently received donations from one of its founding fathers and a long-time member.\u00a0 Godfrey Kelly and Peter Christie continued the tradition of its annual donation to the Regatta.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we started this in 1956, whoever thought 58 years later the Cat Island Regatta would be a staple on the calendar,\u201d Mr. Kelly said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe present Executive team ought to be congratulated for the work being done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom August 1st to the 4th, it\u2019s going down in New Bight, Cat Island.\u00a0 We\u2019re staging the greatest show on earth,\u201d President Pat Strachan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will have the best entertainers including DMac, Geno D, Veronica Bishop and QPid; the most competitive sailing and the best tasting food.\u00a0 This year, we will have a number of activities including Fashion Show, Coconut Barking Contest, Cat Island Hunt, Domino Tournament, Karaoke, Watermelon Eating Contest and many more.\u00a0 Sailing Sloops confirmed are Who Dat, Red Stripe, Good News, Southern Cross, Ed Sky, Cobra, Eudeva, Passion, Heatcliff, Jacob\u2019s Ladder, Ms. Kitty, Witty K and Dream Girls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis Year, patrons can look forward to a renovated Sailing Club including repairs to the male and female bathrooms, newly installed air-condition units and new windows.\u201d\u00a0 President Pat Strachan continued.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>Source: The Cat Island Sailing Club<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>Caption: Pictured from left to right: Marcian Mortimer, Past President Maxwell Burrows,<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>Peter Christie, Godfrey Kelly, President Pat Strachan &amp; Past President Samuel Smith.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cat Island Sailing Club Association recently received donations from one of its founding fathers and a long-time member.  Godfrey Kelly and Peter Christie continued the tradition of its annual donation to the Regatta.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":67663,"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":[7],"tags":[59,366,97,131],"class_list":["post-67652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-islands","tag-regatta","tag-sailing","tag-sports-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67652","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}