{"id":43034,"date":"2016-10-11T09:27:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T08:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/de\/2016\/10\/beautiful-island-beautiful-people\/"},"modified":"2016-10-12T19:11:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T18:11:59","slug":"beautiful-island-beautiful-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/de\/2016\/10\/beautiful-island-beautiful-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful island, beautiful people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LaPalma-161010-1.jpg\" width=\"680\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Palmeros<\/em> (natives of La Palma) pride themselves on living on the most beautiful of the Canary Islands, and refer to their home as <em>La Isla Bonita<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LaPalma-161010-2.jpg\" width=\"680\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Born on 5 October: Hans-Werner of Xada, Kelly of Jiyu, and Trevor of Witte Kreeft<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Few if any of the participants in the <em>Barbados 50 Odyssey<\/em> would disagree, least of all the three who by an amazing coincidence were each born on 5 October\u2026 and spent, in their own words, \u201c<em>a most beautiful time on this most beautiful island<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LaPalma-161010-3A.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Party on Jiyu<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Never to miss such an opportunity, J\u00e9r\u00f4me and Kelly of <em>Jiyu<\/em> invited all participants to a birthday party on their catamaran, the generous size of this <em>Outremer 51<\/em> somehow managing to accommodate all adults\u2026 as well as their assorted children.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LaPalma-161010-3B.jpg\" width=\"680\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trevor in his entertaining element<\/p><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LaPalma-161010-4.jpg\" width=\"680\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LaPalma-161010-5.jpg\" width=\"680\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LaPalma-161010-6.jpg\" width=\"680\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jimmy Cornell with Jos\u00e9 (Pepe) Jaubert, President of the Yacht Club of La Palma<\/p><\/div>\n<p>La Isla Bonita may be a most beautiful island, but what is beyond doubt is that its yacht club (<em>Real Club Nautico de La Palma<\/em>) is the most hospitable nautical establishment in the world. All this is thanks to its president Jos\u00e9 (Pepe) Jaubert, who opened its doors to our participants, free to enjoy its swimming pools, jacuzzi, sauna, gym, bar, restaurant\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LaPalma-161010-7.jpg\" width=\"680\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2026 while the children were invited to a fun day \u2026 supplied by a foam canon!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LaPalma-161010-8.jpg\" width=\"680\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With the two fleets coming together in La Palma, all participants were invited to a dinner party, the tables laid out around the kidney-shaped swimming pool\u2026 shaved of foam for this festive occasion!<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LaPalma-161010-9.jpg\" width=\"680\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The children were treated to their own table<\/p><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LaPalma-161010-10.jpg\" width=\"680\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LaPalma-161010-11.jpg\" width=\"680\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LaPalma-161010-12.jpg\" width=\"680\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LaPalma-161010-13.jpg\" width=\"680\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The grand finale of the evening took everyone by surprise, when Pepe Jaubert presented Jimmy Cornell with a beautiful souvenir plaque commemorating the 40th anniversary of <em>Aventura<\/em>\u2019s departure across the Atlantic from that very spot in 1976, at the start of her round the world voyage.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/LaPalma-161010-14.jpg\" width=\"680\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"note\"><strong>Barbados 50<\/strong> is sponsored by Barbados Tourism Marketing and Tenerife Port Authority.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puertosdetenerife.org\/index.php\/en\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/logo-Puertos-Tenerife.jpg\" alt=\"logo-Puertos-Tenerife\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitbarbados.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/logo-barbados-tourism-mkt.jpg\" alt=\"logo-barbados-tourism-mkt\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Palmeros (natives of La Palma) pride themselves on living on the most beautiful of the Canary Islands, and refer to their home as La Isla Bonita.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Born on 5 October: Hans-Werner of Xada, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/de\/2016\/10\/beautiful-island-beautiful-people\/\">Read more<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":42990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-neues","odd"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43095,"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43034\/revisions\/43095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornellsailing.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}