{"id":196582,"date":"2026-03-18T16:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T16:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/196582\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T16:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T16:58:11","slug":"global-sailing-race-will-make-st-pete-its-north-american-stop-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/196582\/","title":{"rendered":"Global sailing race will make St. Pete its North American stop in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">St. Pete is set to take center stage on the global sailing circuit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoceanrace.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Ocean Race<\/a>, widely considered one of the toughest professional sporting events in the world, will make its first-ever Gulf Coast stop in 2027, with downtown St. Petersburg serving as the North American host for a new transatlantic leg of the race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The announcement is a major win for the area, which will bring an internationally recognized event to the St. Petersburg Yacht Club and the University of South Florida St. Petersburg waterfront.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The 15th edition of The Ocean Race will begin in Alicante, Spain on Sunday, January 17th, 2027, sending a fleet of IMOCA 60-foot sailboats on a 14,000-nautical-mile opening leg to Auckland, New Zealand. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">From there, teams will head to Itaja\u00ed, Brazil before arriving in downtown St. Pete for a scheduled stopover from May 4th through May 16th, 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Pete is set to take center stage on the global sailing circuit. The Ocean Race, widely considered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-196582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}