{"id":11505,"date":"2020-09-04T15:18:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T20:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=11505"},"modified":"2021-10-09T07:18:56","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T14:18:56","slug":"driving-a-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=11505","title":{"rendered":"DRIVING A TRUCK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2005 Transatlantic race was organized for &#8220;big&#8221; boats. I sailed aboard &#8220;Tempest&#8221; the 80 foot ketch, around 125,000 lbs of displacement designed by Sparkman &amp; Stephens; the second smallest boat in the race. I liked to tease that I earned my Chauffeurs license (driving an 18 wheeler). We were allowed help from off the boat, which meant we had a router; Pierre, was in Grenoble behind a computer and he really steered the boat. We won our class and I do not remember our overall position. Actually a great boat to sail, very sea-kindly. The finish was off the needles on the Isle of Wight. We finished in just under 14 days, I believe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TRANSATLANTIC 2005\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vr2AQFeOWPg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>TEMPEST 2005<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"811\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/tempest-2684-38-1024x811.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11513\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/tempest-2684-38-1024x811.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/tempest-2684-38-300x238.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/tempest-2684-38-768x608.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/tempest-2684-38.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2005 Transatlantic race was organized for &#8220;big&#8221; boats. I sailed aboard &#8220;Tempest&#8221; the 80 foot ketch, around 125,000 lbs of displacement designed by Sparkman &amp; Stephens; the second smallest boat in the race. I liked to tease that I earned my Chauffeurs license (driving an 18 wheeler). We were allowed help from off the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=11505\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DRIVING A TRUCK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,43,2361,30,219,218,29,312,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cowes-iow","category-ocean-racing","category-rorc-2","category-royal-yacht-squadron","category-tempest","category-trans-atlantic-2005","category-trans-atlantic-race-2005","category-transatlantic","category-transatlantic-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11505"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11592,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11505\/revisions\/11592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}