{"id":2309,"date":"2011-10-23T09:02:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T14:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2309"},"modified":"2011-10-23T18:28:06","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T23:28:06","slug":"middle-sea-race-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2309","title":{"rendered":"MIDDLE SEA RACE UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rolexmiddlesearace.com\/index.cfm\">middle sea race <\/a>started yesterday. This is one of the great races. I had the pleasure of sailing the race in 2009, a race which saw 33 boats withdraw the first night, before reaching the Straits of Messina between Italy and <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=map+of+sicily&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=0x13106268d05359b3:0x10b042967b67d50,Sicily,+Italy&amp;gl=us&amp;ei=paKkTpS_D8iaiALJ1PW0DA&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=geocode_result&amp;ct=image&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CDAQ8gEwAA\">Sicily<\/a>. We finished, but not well enough for silver.<\/p>\n<p>TWO<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2309 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/malta-10-09-89.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/malta-10-09-89-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2310\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/malta-10-09-89-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/malta-10-09-89-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2310'>\n\t\t\t\tBIG BOATS IN THE RACE\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/malta-10-09-122.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/malta-10-09-122-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2311\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/malta-10-09-122-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/malta-10-09-122-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2311'>\n\t\t\t\tFARO DI SCIARA BISCRI\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/middle-sea-race-10-09-2-Version-2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/middle-sea-race-10-09-2-Version-2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2312\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/middle-sea-race-10-09-2-Version-2-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/middle-sea-race-10-09-2-Version-2-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2312'>\n\t\t\t\tMALTA\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/middle-sea-race-10-09-69.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/middle-sea-race-10-09-69-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2313\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/middle-sea-race-10-09-69-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/middle-sea-race-10-09-69-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2313'>\n\t\t\t\tCAPO PELORO\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/middle-sea-race-10-09-84.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/middle-sea-race-10-09-84-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2314\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/middle-sea-race-10-09-84-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/middle-sea-race-10-09-84-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2314'>\n\t\t\t\tSTROMBOLI\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/P1020619.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/P1020619-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/P1020619-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/P1020619-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2315'>\n\t\t\t\tSPINNAKER CHANGE IN THE STRAITS\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The middle sea race started yesterday. This is one of the great races. I had the pleasure of sailing the race in 2009, a race which saw 33 boats withdraw the first night, before reaching the Straits of Messina between Italy and Sicily. We finished, but not well enough for silver. TWO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[279],"tags":[466,846,974,975],"class_list":["post-2309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-matla","tag-middle-sea-race","tag-ran","tag-straits-of-messina","tag-stromboli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309","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=2309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2323,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions\/2323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}