{"id":242,"date":"2018-10-14T11:27:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T11:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.s4e.org\/2018hansaworlds\/?p=242"},"modified":"2018-10-15T20:00:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T20:00:42","slug":"david-durston-great-britian-gbr-sailor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.s4e.org\/2018hansaworlds\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"David Durston  &#8211; Great Britian (GBR) &#8211; Sailor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first Hansa sailing experience I had was through my local sailing club. The WHITEFRIARS Sailing Club, Wiltshire. The club had a Liberty with full servo to use. I sailed independently from the beginning. The chairman of the U.K circuit and also of Hansa U.K was the president of my local club and was very encouraging.<\/p>\n<p>The best aspect of sailing the Liberty was having my INDEPENDENCE. There was no carer needed and competition was fair.<\/p>\n<p>I notice the adrenalin rush when I am sailing especially when the wind picks up. Racing is really exciting for me. \u00a0 I enjoy the boat, the competition and the strategic nature of the races.<\/p>\n<p>I focus only on the sailing and when I sail I feel no pain.<\/p>\n<p>I love competing against able bodied people. It&#8217;s fantastic! \u00a0 \u00a0Sailing a Hansa is the only sport that enables competition on even terms.<\/p>\n<p>Inclusion means everyone being able to compete on the same terms.<\/p>\n<p>When I go home from Hiroshima 2018, I will go home knowing that I WON the first Liberty race on my birthday (which is today)!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>If I could invite anyone in the world to sail with me it would be Ben Ainsley.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.s4e.org\/2018hansaworlds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/David-Durston.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-215\" src=\"http:\/\/www.s4e.org\/2018hansaworlds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/David-Durston-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.s4e.org\/2018hansaworlds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/David-Durston-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.s4e.org\/2018hansaworlds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/David-Durston-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.s4e.org\/2018hansaworlds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/David-Durston-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Hansa sailing experience I had was through my local sailing club. The WHITEFRIARS Sailing Club, Wiltshire. The club had a Liberty with full servo to use. I sailed independently from the beginning. The chairman of the U.K circuit and also of Hansa U.K was the president of my local club and was very &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.s4e.org\/2018hansaworlds\/?p=242\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;David Durston  &#8211; Great Britian (GBR) &#8211; Sailor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.s4e.org\/2018hansaworlds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.s4e.org\/2018hansaworlds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.s4e.org\/2018hansaworlds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.s4e.org\/2018hansaworlds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.s4e.org\/2018hansaworlds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.s4e.org\/2018hansaworlds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/www.s4e.org\/2018hansaworlds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.s4e.org\/2018hansaworlds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.s4e.org\/2018hansaworlds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.s4e.org\/2018hansaworlds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}