{"id":159,"date":"2009-07-04T20:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-04T20:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=159"},"modified":"2009-07-04T20:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-04T20:57:00","slug":"its-all-connected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"IT&#8217;S ALL CONNECTED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/Sk_Cg8Rm0PI\/AAAAAAAABZY\/rNJwvwOl4l8\/s1600-h\/windsurfing:payolle.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 254px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/Sk_Cg8Rm0PI\/AAAAAAAABZY\/rNJwvwOl4l8\/s320\/windsurfing:payolle.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354712353158385906\" \/><\/a>Indeed, it is all connected. I must have met Hoyle and Diane at the Newport Boat Show, I am no longer certain of the date. The show was held on Goat Island. I bought sail number 48 shortly after that. <\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>I ended up driving a Dragon from Miami to San Diego to prepare it for the 1972 Olympics. We spent almost every weekend with Hoyle and Diane in Pacific Palisades, driving from San Diego.<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>I returned a few times to visit, one of the last was the 1973 &#8220;World Championship&#8221; in Mission Bay, San Diego. the photos below are from that regatta.<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>Ted Schweitzer has created a blog retrospective of the early years, it is worth a visit. click on the link.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/Sk_CgnPXrdI\/AAAAAAAABZQ\/yX9zmiMeMoo\/s1600-h\/windsurf:skipmeet.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 217px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/Sk_CgnPXrdI\/AAAAAAAABZQ\/yX9zmiMeMoo\/s320\/windsurf:skipmeet.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354712347511860690\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/Sk_CgbXQ9vI\/AAAAAAAABZI\/fZ2_45vza1w\/s1600-h\/windsurf:boards.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 219px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/Sk_CgbXQ9vI\/AAAAAAAABZI\/fZ2_45vza1w\/s320\/windsurf:boards.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354712344323749618\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/Sk_CgMcUcGI\/AAAAAAAABZA\/XsKSSAseGH0\/s1600-h\/windsurf+worlds.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 206px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/Sk_CgMcUcGI\/AAAAAAAABZA\/XsKSSAseGH0\/s320\/windsurf+worlds.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354712340318416994\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indeed, it is all connected. I must have met Hoyle and Diane at the Newport Boat Show, I am no longer certain of the date. The show was held on Goat Island. I bought sail number 48 shortly after that. I ended up driving a Dragon from Miami to San Diego to prepare it for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=159\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IT&#8217;S ALL CONNECTED<\/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":[79,240],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hoyle-schweitzer","category-original-windsurfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","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=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}