{"id":13,"date":"2008-08-08T02:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=13"},"modified":"2008-08-08T02:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T02:05:00","slug":"2003-trans-atlantic-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"2003 trans-atlantic race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SJurN3UIp5I\/AAAAAAAAACk\/T9-1aodsEBo\/s1600-h\/snow+lion+2003+ta.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SJurN3UIp5I\/AAAAAAAAACk\/T9-1aodsEBo\/s320\/snow+lion+2003+ta.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231963646796015506\" \/><\/a>the 2003 trans-atlantic race from Newport, RI to Hamburg, Germany, sailing aboard &#8220;Snow Lion&#8221; a 50 foot Nelson\/Marek. The race took not quite 20 days. we had 12 days of over 200 miles a day. Our best being 275 miles in 24 hours; unfortunately for us that same 24 hour period one of our competition sailed 475 miles.<\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>once again the fellowship that only the sea can forge was created with this fine group. It is had to cross the Atlantic with out one storm, ours was only 50 knots, as you can see we sailed with the #4 and a double reef in the mainsail, we hit our fastest recorded speed in this combination, at 26 knots.<\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SJurOYb71oI\/AAAAAAAAACs\/Cuxsonk_-Q4\/s1600-h\/night+sailing.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SJurOYb71oI\/AAAAAAAAACs\/Cuxsonk_-Q4\/s320\/night+sailing.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231963655687100034\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SJurOepc9BI\/AAAAAAAAAC0\/7SFpQfiTlgE\/s1600-h\/snow+lion+2003.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SJurOepc9BI\/AAAAAAAAAC0\/7SFpQfiTlgE\/s320\/snow+lion+2003.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231963657354408978\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the 2003 trans-atlantic race from Newport, RI to Hamburg, Germany, sailing aboard &#8220;Snow Lion&#8221; a 50 foot Nelson\/Marek. The race took not quite 20 days. we had 12 days of over 200 miles a day. Our best being 275 miles in 24 hours; unfortunately for us that same 24 hour period one of our competition &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=13\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2003 trans-atlantic race<\/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":[35,34,33,15,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hamburg","category-larry-huntington","category-nelson-marek","category-nyyc","category-transatlantic-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","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=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}