{"id":1670,"date":"2023-09-19T09:56:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T09:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2023-09-19T18:38:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T18:38:01","slug":"xo-dfndr-8-nominated-for-best-of-boats-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/news\/xo-dfndr-8-nominated-for-best-of-boats-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"XO DFNDR 8 Nominated for Best of Boats Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">XO Boats is proud to share that our <b>XO DFNDR 8<\/b> has been chosen as one of the finalists of Best of Boats awards, in category <b>Best for Performance<\/b>. All the nominated boats have been throughly tested by several members of international jury of boating experts and boat journalists, and the winners will be announced in <b>Boot &amp; Fun Berlin 2023<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1671\" src=\"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/XO-DFNDR-8-BOBawards-web-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/XO-DFNDR-8-BOBawards-web-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/XO-DFNDR-8-BOBawards-web-1024x656.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/XO-DFNDR-8-BOBawards-web-768x492.jpg 768w, https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/XO-DFNDR-8-BOBawards-web-600x384.jpg 600w, https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/XO-DFNDR-8-BOBawards-web-uai-258x165.jpg 258w, https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/XO-DFNDR-8-BOBawards-web-uai-1032x661.jpg 1032w, https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/XO-DFNDR-8-BOBawards-web-uai-1440x923.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/XO-DFNDR-8-BOBawards-web-uai-720x461.jpg 720w, https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/XO-DFNDR-8-BOBawards-web-uai-516x331.jpg 516w, https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/XO-DFNDR-8-BOBawards-web.jpg 1461w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The DFNDR 8 is the sister model for award-winning XO DFNDR 9. With twin engines, agile XO DFNDR 8 can reach +50 knots of speed. Although the boat is smaller than other recent XO models it still maintains the uncompromising attitude and resilience of a true XO. This powerhouse combines all the fun elements of boating with glorious speed, and XO&#8217;s unique and renowned driving qualities, making it the perfect nominee for this category.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">We thank BOB-awards for this exquisite nomination!<\/p>\n<p>More information about Best of Boats can be read at bestofboats.com!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XO Boats is proud to share that our XO DFNDR 8 has been chosen as one of the finalists of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>XO DFNDR 8 Nominated for Best of Boats Awards - XO Boats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/news\/xo-dfndr-8-nominated-for-best-of-boats-awards\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"XO DFNDR 8 Nominated for Best of Boats Awards - XO Boats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"XO Boats is proud to share that our XO DFNDR 8 has been chosen as one of the finalists of [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/news\/xo-dfndr-8-nominated-for-best-of-boats-awards\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"XO Boats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-09-19T09:56:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-09-19T18:38:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/XO-DFNDR-8-BOBawards-web.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1461\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"936\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Emmi Niva\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Emmi Niva\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/news\/xo-dfndr-8-nominated-for-best-of-boats-awards\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/news\/xo-dfndr-8-nominated-for-best-of-boats-awards\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Emmi Niva\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/#\/schema\/person\/60f0f801ef8fcf5316cc6aa6a02cefce\"},\"headline\":\"XO DFNDR 8 Nominated for Best of Boats Awards\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-09-19T09:56:55+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-09-19T18:38:01+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/news\/xo-dfndr-8-nominated-for-best-of-boats-awards\/\"},\"wordCount\":159,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/news\/xo-dfndr-8-nominated-for-best-of-boats-awards\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/XO-DFNDR-8-BOBawards-web.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\",\"Media\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/news\/xo-dfndr-8-nominated-for-best-of-boats-awards\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/news\/xo-dfndr-8-nominated-for-best-of-boats-awards\/\",\"name\":\"XO DFNDR 8 Nominated for Best of Boats Awards - XO Boats\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/news\/xo-dfndr-8-nominated-for-best-of-boats-awards\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/news\/xo-dfndr-8-nominated-for-best-of-boats-awards\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/XO-DFNDR-8-BOBawards-web.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-09-19T09:56:55+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-09-19T18:38:01+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/news\/xo-dfndr-8-nominated-for-best-of-boats-awards\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/news\/xo-dfndr-8-nominated-for-best-of-boats-awards\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/news\/xo-dfndr-8-nominated-for-best-of-boats-awards\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/XO-DFNDR-8-BOBawards-web.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/XO-DFNDR-8-BOBawards-web.jpg\",\"width\":1461,\"height\":936},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/news\/xo-dfndr-8-nominated-for-best-of-boats-awards\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"XO DFNDR 8 Nominated for Best of Boats Awards\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/\",\"name\":\"XO Boats\",\"description\":\"Step to the wild side\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"XO Boats\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/XO_logo_light.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/XO_logo_light.png\",\"width\":2098,\"height\":419,\"caption\":\"XO Boats\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/#\/schema\/person\/60f0f801ef8fcf5316cc6aa6a02cefce\",\"name\":\"Emmi Niva\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"XO DFNDR 8 Nominated for Best of Boats Awards - XO Boats","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/news\/xo-dfndr-8-nominated-for-best-of-boats-awards\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"XO DFNDR 8 Nominated for Best of Boats Awards - XO Boats","og_description":"XO Boats is proud to share that our XO DFNDR 8 has been chosen as one of the finalists of [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/news\/xo-dfndr-8-nominated-for-best-of-boats-awards\/","og_site_name":"XO Boats","article_published_time":"2023-09-19T09:56:55+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-09-19T18:38:01+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1461,"height":936,"url":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/XO-DFNDR-8-BOBawards-web.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Emmi Niva","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Emmi Niva","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/news\/xo-dfndr-8-nominated-for-best-of-boats-awards\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/news\/xo-dfndr-8-nominated-for-best-of-boats-awards\/"},"author":{"name":"Emmi Niva","@id":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/#\/schema\/person\/60f0f801ef8fcf5316cc6aa6a02cefce"},"headline":"XO DFNDR 8 Nominated for Best of Boats Awards","datePublished":"2023-09-19T09:56:55+00:00","dateModified":"2023-09-19T18:38:01+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/news\/xo-dfndr-8-nominated-for-best-of-boats-awards\/"},"wordCount":159,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/news\/xo-dfndr-8-nominated-for-best-of-boats-awards\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/XO-DFNDR-8-BOBawards-web.jpg","articleSection":["News","Media"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/news\/xo-dfndr-8-nominated-for-best-of-boats-awards\/","url":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/news\/xo-dfndr-8-nominated-for-best-of-boats-awards\/","name":"XO DFNDR 8 Nominated for Best of Boats Awards - XO Boats","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/news\/xo-dfndr-8-nominated-for-best-of-boats-awards\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/news\/xo-dfndr-8-nominated-for-best-of-boats-awards\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/XO-DFNDR-8-BOBawards-web.jpg","datePublished":"2023-09-19T09:56:55+00:00","dateModified":"2023-09-19T18:38:01+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/news\/xo-dfndr-8-nominated-for-best-of-boats-awards\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/news\/xo-dfndr-8-nominated-for-best-of-boats-awards\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/news\/xo-dfndr-8-nominated-for-best-of-boats-awards\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/XO-DFNDR-8-BOBawards-web.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/XO-DFNDR-8-BOBawards-web.jpg","width":1461,"height":936},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/news\/xo-dfndr-8-nominated-for-best-of-boats-awards\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"XO DFNDR 8 Nominated for Best of Boats Awards"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/","name":"XO Boats","description":"Step to the wild side","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/#organization","name":"XO Boats","url":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/XO_logo_light.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/XO_logo_light.png","width":2098,"height":419,"caption":"XO Boats"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/#\/schema\/person\/60f0f801ef8fcf5316cc6aa6a02cefce","name":"Emmi Niva"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1670"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1675,"href":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions\/1675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xo-boats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}