{"id":3051,"date":"2012-03-20T07:34:23","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T12:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=3051"},"modified":"2012-03-20T07:34:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T12:34:23","slug":"onion-patch-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=3051","title":{"rendered":"ONION PATCH SERIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3051 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\/2012\/03\/bermuda-76247.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/bermuda-76247-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3052\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/bermuda-76247-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/bermuda-76247-48x48.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-1-3052'>\n\t\t\t\tCHARISMA CREW 1976\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\/2012\/03\/carina-1970-2796.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/carina-1970-2796-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3053\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/carina-1970-2796-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/carina-1970-2796-48x48.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-1-3053'>\n\t\t\t\tCARINA 1970\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\/2012\/03\/carina-1970795.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/carina-1970795-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3054\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/carina-1970795-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/carina-1970795-48x48.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-1-3054'>\n\t\t\t\tCARINA CREW 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href='http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/jesse-philips.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/jesse-philips-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3056\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/jesse-philips-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/jesse-philips-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-1-3056'>\n\t\t\t\tJESSE PHILLIPS AT IDA LEWIS YACHT CLUB\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\/2012\/03\/rbyc-70208.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/rbyc-70208-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3057\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/rbyc-70208-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/rbyc-70208-48x48.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-1-3057'>\n\t\t\t\tROYAL BERMUDA YACHT CLUB\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Reading the recent article about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onionpatchseries.com\/index.php\/newsmenuheader\/news2012\/37-the-onion-patch-one-tough-series-to-win\">Onion Patch Series<\/a>\u00a0puzzled me because the description did not resemble any of the series I had sailed in the past. I participated on &#8220;Carina&#8221;, &#8220;Charisma&#8221;. The series in those days the series began with a race starting in Oyster Bay around Buzzards Bay light tower, around Block Island and then finishing at Castle Hill. Once in Newport we sailed three day races before starting the Bermuda Race. The race s were open to all participants but the teams were scored separately, just as the Admiral&#8217;s Cup had been sailed in the early days, before the beginning of the end when the Admiral&#8217;s Cup was excised from the crowds, but that is a subject for another day.<\/p>\n<p>As I write, I wonder if we as sailors have been our own worst enemies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Reading the recent article about the Onion Patch Series\u00a0puzzled me because the description did not resemble any of the series I had sailed in the past. I participated on &#8220;Carina&#8221;, &#8220;Charisma&#8221;. The series in those days the series began with a race starting in Oyster Bay around Buzzards Bay light tower, around Block Island &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=3051\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ONION PATCH SERIES<\/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":[18],"tags":[2483,1236,1237],"class_list":["post-3051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bermuda-race","tag-bermuda","tag-onion-patch","tag-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051","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=3051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3058,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051\/revisions\/3058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}