{"id":36,"date":"2008-08-17T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-17T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2010-10-20T19:45:46","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T23:45:46","slug":"bermuda-race-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Bermuda Race 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKiXHDO_6wI\/AAAAAAAAASU\/X0iliGc2aWQ\/s1600-h\/hull+strapped.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKiXHDO_6wI\/AAAAAAAAASU\/X0iliGc2aWQ\/s320\/hull+strapped.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235600714201295618\" \/><\/a>2006 was the debut of the new Jason Ker 50 foot &#8216;Snow Lion&#8221;; launched only weeks before the Bermuda Race. We sailed the NYYC spring regatta and then off to Bermuda. It was a slow upwind race. We managed a class win and winning by the greatest margin in any class meant we earned extra silver.<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>The first evening of the race I hit what expect was a basking shark, quite large, it became wrapped around the keel, we had to stop and sail backward to free it. <\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>I just made my flight home as I never expected the race to take as long as it did.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKiXHHyVstI\/AAAAAAAAASc\/YvkbHwfn3cc\/s1600-h\/inspection.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKiXHHyVstI\/AAAAAAAAASc\/YvkbHwfn3cc\/s320\/inspection.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235600715423265490\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKiXHVXYt0I\/AAAAAAAAASk\/D5AluAj6dmc\/s1600-h\/IMGP0186.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKiXHVXYt0I\/AAAAAAAAASk\/D5AluAj6dmc\/s320\/IMGP0186.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235600719068313410\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKiXHiyuwPI\/AAAAAAAAASs\/yMg0ojSrRbE\/s1600-h\/IMGP0196.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKiXHiyuwPI\/AAAAAAAAASs\/yMg0ojSrRbE\/s320\/IMGP0196.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235600722672664818\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2006 was the debut of the new Jason Ker 50 foot &#8216;Snow Lion&#8221;; launched only weeks before the Bermuda Race. We sailed the NYYC spring regatta and then off to Bermuda. It was a slow upwind race. We managed a class win and winning by the greatest margin in any class meant we earned extra &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=36\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bermuda Race 2006<\/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":[18,98,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bermuda-race","category-jason-ker","category-snow-lion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","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=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}