{"id":446,"date":"2016-09-25T16:05:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T15:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astolat.nl\/?page_id=446"},"modified":"2016-09-25T16:05:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T15:05:41","slug":"in-the-wake-of-my-heroes-by-bill-perkes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.astolat.nl\/?page_id=446","title":{"rendered":"In the Wake of My Heroes &#8211; By Bill Perkes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published privately by his family, and dedicated to the memory of Bill, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>In this book Bill Perkes&#8217; sailing adventures have been written down, starting with canoes and other sailboats, and eventually with their Excalibur 36 &#8216;Sherpa Bill&#8217; covering the main part of the book. Bill has sailed her, alone, together with his wife Hazel, family and others well over 100,000 miles. Once around the world and crossing the Atlantic 13 times.<\/p>\n<p>The book is very enjoyable to read and a must have for every Excalibur 36 enthusiast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.astolat.nl\/?attachment_id=445\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-445\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-445\" src=\"http:\/\/www.astolat.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/bill-perkes-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"In the Wake of My Heroes\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.astolat.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/bill-perkes-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/www.astolat.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/bill-perkes-768x1100.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.astolat.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/bill-perkes-715x1024.jpg 715w, https:\/\/www.astolat.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/bill-perkes-624x894.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.astolat.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/bill-perkes.jpg 989w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contents among others:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Round Britain Race of 1974 and 1978.<\/li>\n<li>Twostar &#8216;Two Handed Transatlantic Race&#8217; 1981<\/li>\n<li>AZAB &#8216;The Azores And Back&#8217; 1983<\/li>\n<li>OSTAR &#8216;Single Handed Trans Atlantic Race&#8217; 1984<\/li>\n<li>Round the World 1991 &#8211; 1994<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Product details:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hardcover: 202 pages<\/li>\n<li>Published: 2007 (Fiona Green)<\/li>\n<li>Price: \u00a315.-<\/li>\n<li>Contact: Fiona Green, simonfi@ntlworld.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published privately by his family, and dedicated to the memory of Bill, 2007. In this book Bill Perkes&#8217; sailing adventures have been written down, starting with canoes and other sailboats, and eventually with their Excalibur 36 &#8216;Sherpa Bill&#8217; covering the main part of the book. Bill has sailed her, alone, together with his wife Hazel, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":442,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-446","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astolat.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astolat.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astolat.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astolat.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astolat.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.astolat.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/www.astolat.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/446\/revisions\/455"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astolat.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astolat.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}