{"id":3385,"date":"2022-09-13T04:54:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T04:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/?p=3385"},"modified":"2022-09-21T20:56:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T20:56:11","slug":"medevac-rescue-of-skipper-andy-schwenk-400-miles-off-of-san-francisco-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/13\/medevac-rescue-of-skipper-andy-schwenk-400-miles-off-of-san-francisco-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Medevac rescue of skipper Andy Schwenk 400 miles off of San Francisco, CA."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"\" — Andy (far right) and crew partying at the halfway mark during last year\u2019s Transpac.\u00a9 2022 Andrew Redfern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Catch our Tuesday morning 9:40 m interview with Andy Schwenk \u2013 skipper of Spindrift V<\/em>, an Express 37, who was rescued off the coast of California in August. Andy was returning from Hawaii after winning his division in the bi-annual 2022 Pacific Cup when a flesh eating infection came very close to killing him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
With the coordinated help of the US Coast Guard<\/a>, naval ships and fellow returning racers Andy was air-lifted and receieved life-saving surgery and treatment at Stanford hospital that will keep him walking .<\/p>\n\n\n\n
*The images shared in the article are gory but Andy is out of the hospital and recovering well. Find the full story on L\u2019Attitude 38<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n*
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In fact *Spindrift<\/em> V competed in the* *ROLEX Big Boat Series in September 2022<\/a> with incredible results.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"*
Catch our Tuesday morning 9:40 m interview with Andy Schwenk \u2013 skipper of Spindrift V, an Express 37, who was rescued off the coast of California in August. Andy was returning from Hawaii after winning his division in the bi-annual 2022 Pacific Cup when a flesh eating infection came very close to killing him. With the coordinated help of the US Coast Guard, naval ships and fellow returning racers Andy was air-lifted and receieved life-saving surgery and treatment at Stanford hospital that will keep him walking . The images shared in the article are gory but Andy is out of… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the_show"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/4-Spindrift-V-halfway-1536x1152-1.jpg?fit=1536%2C1152&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3385"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3406,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions\/3406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}