{"id":455576,"date":"2026-06-01T15:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/455576\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T15:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:04:14","slug":"two-in-transtasman-yacht-challenge-pull-out-after-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/455576\/","title":{"rendered":"Two in transtasman yacht challenge pull out after issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RNZ<\/p>\n<p>1 Jun, 2026 03:01 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Graeme Francis aboard Robbery has arrived home safely in Mang\u014dnui, Doubtless Bay. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Two competitors in the Solo Trans-Tasman Yacht Challenge have pulled out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Graeme Francis aboard Robbery has arrived home safely in Mang\u014dnui, Doubtless Bay after his vessel started taking on water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         He alerted Maritime NZ\u2019s Rescue Co-ordination Centre late last night and they  helped<br \/>\n         to get him back to land.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">Organisers of the challenge, which sees yachts race from \u014cpua in Northland to Southport in Queensland, say he is safe and well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RNZ 1 Jun, 2026 03:01 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,6636,78,1452,111,139,69,3111,2961,213,5274,1237,16506],"class_list":["post-455576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-challenge","tag-in","tag-issues","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-out","tag-pull","tag-sports","tag-transtasman","tag-two","tag-yacht"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455576","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=455576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}