{"id":326744,"date":"2026-03-12T23:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/326744\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T23:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:43:08","slug":"missing-package-worth-25000-returned-to-napier-rowing-boat-builders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/326744\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing package worth $25,000 returned to Napier rowing-boat builders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">It appears another courier picked it up shortly after.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">It was located in Auckland at a depot about a week later by SL Racing\u2019s contracted courier company, SL Racing confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">The package had originally been delivered from overseas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">SL Racing co-owner Simon Lack said he was relieved to have it returned.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"The package included eight carbon sweep riggers. Photo \/ SL Racing\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>The package included eight carbon sweep riggers. Photo \/ SL Racing<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">The package included eight carbon sweep riggers, destined to be used on a new eight-man boat at the Maadi Cup competition later this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">A huge amount of work had gone into the design, and there was not enough time for replacements to be made for the competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">Lack confirmed the parts had since been shipped south and were \u201con the water in Twizel\u201d this week, before the major secondary schools competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">SL Racing is a highly-regarded boat maker and its customers include Olympic athletes such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/hawkes-bay-today\/news\/paris-olympics-dream-of-nz-golden-girl-emma-twigg-rowing-a-locally-made-boat-in-paris-almost-ruined-by-errant-tyre-on-swiss-road\/4VQPAFRIEBGJNNWRCSQTFTOI4E\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/hawkes-bay-today\/news\/paris-olympics-dream-of-nz-golden-girl-emma-twigg-rowing-a-locally-made-boat-in-paris-almost-ruined-by-errant-tyre-on-swiss-road\/4VQPAFRIEBGJNNWRCSQTFTOI4E\/\" target=\"_blank\">gold medallist Emma Twigg<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It appears another courier picked it up shortly after. It was located in Auckland at a depot about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8990,1558,56423,15972,1874,2944,6501,3607,3180,111,139,69,22367,12971,38404,169819,213,1361,61,2201,102,19985],"class_list":["post-326744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-8990","tag-been","tag-builders","tag-equipment","tag-found","tag-inside","tag-missing","tag-napier","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-package","tag-returned","tag-rowing","tag-rowingboat","tag-sports","tag-that","tag-to","tag-went","tag-with","tag-worth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}