{"id":1885,"date":"2017-02-25T09:51:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T15:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/?p=1885"},"modified":"2017-02-25T09:52:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T15:52:29","slug":"bel-air-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/bel-air-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Bel Air III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/skinnylaveal\/25324846210\/in\/album-72157663288454473\/\">https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/skinnylaveal\/25324846210\/in\/album-72157663288454473\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>From New Zealand:<\/em><br \/>\nBen Knight (PG Knight&#8217;s son and Peter&#8217;s grandson) sends us\u00a0a few pics of their\u00a0 restored A class hydro that they finished up on 2 years ago.\u00a0They have been taking it to a vintage regattas in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/skinnylaveal\/25268006429\/in\/album-72157663288454473\/\">https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/skinnylaveal\/25268006429\/in\/album-72157663288454473\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/skinnylaveal\/25542461681\/in\/album-72157663288454473\/\">https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/skinnylaveal\/25542461681\/in\/album-72157663288454473\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/skinnylaveal\/25004494454\/in\/album-72157663288454473\/\">https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/skinnylaveal\/25004494454\/in\/album-72157663288454473\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/skinnylaveal\/25268206569\/in\/album-72157663288454473\/\">https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/skinnylaveal\/25268206569\/in\/album-72157663288454473\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1488032769195_26858\" class=\"yiv7740465179MsoNormal\">The boat raced at Valleyfield in 1967 then won at Red Bank the following week. PR Knight designed and built the boat. It has\u00a0a 2.5 Liter\u00a0Ford motor from a Mk4 Zephyr.\u00a0We believe it set a UIM world record in 1967.<br clear=\"none\" \/>We are also in the process of restoring <strong>The Godfather<\/strong> GP boat also.<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:benknight590@gmail.com\">Ben Knight<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7740465179MsoNormal\">BTW &#8211; Beautiful spot for a Vintage Race Boat Regatta&#8230;don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/skinnylaveal\/25019093544\/in\/album-72157663288454473\/\">https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/skinnylaveal\/25019093544\/in\/album-72157663288454473\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From New Zealand: Ben Knight (PG Knight&#8217;s son and Peter&#8217;s grandson) sends us\u00a0a few pics of their\u00a0 restored A class hydro that they finished up on 2 years ago.\u00a0They have been taking it to a vintage regattas in New Zealand. &nbsp; &nbsp; The boat raced at Valleyfield in 1967 then &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boats","category-racing-memories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1887,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions\/1887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}