{"id":499,"date":"2016-12-10T15:38:51","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T14:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astolat.nl\/?page_id=499"},"modified":"2016-12-10T15:51:19","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T14:51:19","slug":"introduction-to-excalibur-36-by-alan-bourdon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.astolat.nl\/?page_id=499","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Excalibur 36 by Alan Bourdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The late Alan Bourdon was former employee of Tyler Boats and S.O.S. in Poole. Later he became \u00a0a Yacht Broker specialising in Van de Stadt designs. When I went to England with my father on a one week holiday looking for and Excalibur to buy, he had two for sale; &#8216;Avalion&#8217; and &#8216;Astolat&#8217;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_502\" style=\"width: 495px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.astolat.nl\/?attachment_id=502\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-502\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-502\" class=\"size-full wp-image-502\" src=\"http:\/\/www.astolat.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Schermafbeelding-2016-12-10-om-15.42.26.png\" alt=\"Alan Bourdon Yachts Ltd\" width=\"485\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.astolat.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Schermafbeelding-2016-12-10-om-15.42.26.png 485w, https:\/\/www.astolat.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Schermafbeelding-2016-12-10-om-15.42.26-300x140.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-502\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alan Bourdon Yachts Ltd<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Each of his Excalibur sales brochures contained an introduction to the Excalibur design, including those for &#8216;Avilion&#8217; and &#8216;Astolat&#8217;. I recall\u00a0visiting him and his wife in Poole where a half-model of Excalibur was hanging on the wall in their house.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_498\" style=\"width: 836px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.astolat.nl\/?attachment_id=498\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-498\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-498\" class=\"size-full wp-image-498\" src=\"http:\/\/www.astolat.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/SB3.jpg\" alt=\"Introduction Excalibur 36 - Alan Bourdon\" width=\"826\" height=\"1169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.astolat.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/SB3.jpg 826w, https:\/\/www.astolat.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/SB3-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.astolat.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/SB3-768x1087.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.astolat.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/SB3-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/www.astolat.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/SB3-624x883.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 826px) 100vw, 826px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Introduction Excalibur 36 &#8211; Alan Bourdon<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late Alan Bourdon was former employee of Tyler Boats and S.O.S. in Poole. Later he became \u00a0a Yacht Broker specialising in Van de Stadt designs. When I went to England with my father on a one week holiday looking for and Excalibur to buy, he had two for sale; &#8216;Avalion&#8217; and &#8216;Astolat&#8217;. Each of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":19,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-499","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astolat.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/499","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=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.astolat.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"https:\/\/www.astolat.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/499\/revisions\/508"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astolat.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astolat.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}