{"id":2289,"date":"2025-08-03T10:37:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T00:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/victorianintcadet.sailhive.com\/?p=2289"},"modified":"2025-08-03T10:42:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T00:42:18","slug":"ex-cadet-sailor-will-farnell-the-orcvs-youth-sailor-of-the-year-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sailhive.com\/6thFleetCadets\/news\/ex-cadet-sailor-will-farnell-the-orcvs-youth-sailor-of-the-year-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Cadet Sailor &#8211; Will Farnell, the ORCV&#8217;s Youth Sailor of the Year 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sixteen-year-old Will Farnell, a proud product of Victoria\u2019s International Cadet \u201c6th Fleet\u201d, has been named the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria\u2019s <strong>Youth Sailor of the Year 2025<\/strong>. The Geelong teenager has already logged more offshore miles than many adults, impressing the ORCV with his seamanship, maturity and infectious enthusiasm for the sport. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orcv.org.au\/news2\/534-latest\/5777-offshore-at-16-will-farnell-the-orcvs-youth-sailor-of-the-year-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">orcv.org.au<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cadet foundations<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Will\u2019s sailing story began in 2017 when he joined the Cadet class. Those early seasons racing two-handed dinghies taught him sail-trim basics, tactical thinking and \u2013 perhaps most importantly \u2013 how to lead and look after a crew-mate. \u201cCadets gave me the confidence to step aboard bigger boats and know what was happening from day one,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orcv.org.au\/news2\/534-latest\/5777-offshore-at-16-will-farnell-the-orcvs-youth-sailor-of-the-year-2025\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixteen-year-old Will Farnell, a proud product of Victoria\u2019s International Cadet \u201c6th Fleet\u201d, has been named the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria\u2019s Youth Sailor of the Year 2025. The Geelong teenager has already logged more offshore miles than many adults, impressing the ORCV with his seamanship, maturity and infectious enthusiasm for the sport. orcv.org.au Cadet foundations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sailhive.com\/6thFleetCadets\/news\/ex-cadet-sailor-will-farnell-the-orcvs-youth-sailor-of-the-year-2025\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailhive.com\/6thFleetCadets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailhive.com\/6thFleetCadets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailhive.com\/6thFleetCadets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailhive.com\/6thFleetCadets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailhive.com\/6thFleetCadets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sailhive.com\/6thFleetCadets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2294,"href":"https:\/\/sailhive.com\/6thFleetCadets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions\/2294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailhive.com\/6thFleetCadets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailhive.com\/6thFleetCadets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailhive.com\/6thFleetCadets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}