{"id":197,"date":"2009-09-23T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=197"},"modified":"2010-10-21T17:22:31","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T21:22:31","slug":"12-meter-world-championship-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"12 meter world championship day one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SrqeppPbwPI\/AAAAAAAABp8\/nB8sIQAwcCw\/s1600-h\/DSC_3795.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384790742757261554\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 212px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SrqeppPbwPI\/AAAAAAAABp8\/nB8sIQAwcCw\/s320\/DSC_3795.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SrqcvkQVMaI\/AAAAAAAABp0\/YPcBqiVI3bE\/s1600-h\/DSC_3734.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384788645474808226\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 212px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SrqcvkQVMaI\/AAAAAAAABp0\/YPcBqiVI3bE\/s320\/DSC_3734.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>The first day of racing started almost on time, the wind at 6-8 knots at 11 am, building to 15-18 knots in the afternoon with relatively flat seas. The racing was tight, in some cases three boats crossing the line overlapped. Three races were completed, which always makes a race committee happy, creating a cushion in the event of bad weather.<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"white-space: pre;\"> <\/span>Once more I am indebted to my good friend Jimmy Gubelmann for inviting me out to watch the racing.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SrqcvM6KtdI\/AAAAAAAABps\/jXIL7RhD5NY\/s1600-h\/DSC_3739.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384788639207830994\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 212px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SrqcvM6KtdI\/AAAAAAAABps\/jXIL7RhD5NY\/s320\/DSC_3739.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/Srqcuo2BkDI\/AAAAAAAABpk\/NR8lBjyfqZ0\/s1600-h\/DSC_3744.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384788629526777906\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 212px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/Srqcuo2BkDI\/AAAAAAAABpk\/NR8lBjyfqZ0\/s320\/DSC_3744.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SrqctyltlbI\/AAAAAAAABpc\/6X_zCWChRO4\/s1600-h\/DSC_3745.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384788614962845106\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 212px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SrqctyltlbI\/AAAAAAAABpc\/6X_zCWChRO4\/s320\/DSC_3745.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first day of racing started almost on time, the wind at 6-8 knots at 11 am, building to 15-18 knots in the afternoon with relatively flat seas. The racing was tight, in some cases three boats crossing the line overlapped. Three races were completed, which always makes a race committee happy, creating a cushion &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=197\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">12 meter world championship day one<\/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":[42],"tags":[523,470],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12-meter-class","tag-12-meter-world-championship","tag-12-meters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","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=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":812,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}