{"id":45,"date":"2008-08-20T00:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T00:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=45"},"modified":"2008-08-20T00:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T00:28:00","slug":"admirals-cup-1971","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Admiral&#8217;s Cup 1971"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKtnb91xjhI\/AAAAAAAAAeU\/xcgABmFia8I\/s1600-h\/carina+admirals+cup.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKtnb91xjhI\/AAAAAAAAAeU\/xcgABmFia8I\/s320\/carina+admirals+cup.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236392721902571026\" \/><\/a>Following our delivery across the ocean &#8220;Carina&#8221; was hauled out of the water at Camper &amp; Nicholson&#8217;s yard in Gosport. it made sense because the first race, the Channel race started at Southend closeby. The team was comprised of &#8220;Yankee Girl&#8221;, &#8220;Bay Bea&#8221;, and &#8220;Carina&#8221; Bill Snaith, however was chosen to be the team captain, in Cowes without a boat. <\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>We sailed reasonably, consistently , and the American team finished second in the series, behind the English team.<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>I should note that the crew was still included in the social events as evidenced by the invitation , It would be my second time to hear Uffa Fox sing sea shanties. The next day Uffa gave my friend Knight Coolidge and myself a full tour of his house and his work. we spent the better part of a day with him.There were no end of stories.<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>Steve Colgate sailed with us. My memory is that it blew hard every day.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKtncKsR2-I\/AAAAAAAAAec\/424nUmI9PKc\/s1600-h\/max+atkin+71.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKtncKsR2-I\/AAAAAAAAAec\/424nUmI9PKc\/s320\/max+atkin+71.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236392725352405986\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKtnccDbe7I\/AAAAAAAAAek\/PiPgbJO9Mt4\/s1600-h\/snaith:nye:mccurdy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKtnccDbe7I\/AAAAAAAAAek\/PiPgbJO9Mt4\/s320\/snaith:nye:mccurdy.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236392730012908466\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following our delivery across the ocean &#8220;Carina&#8221; was hauled out of the water at Camper &amp; Nicholson&#8217;s yard in Gosport. it made sense because the first race, the Channel race started at Southend closeby. The team was comprised of &#8220;Yankee Girl&#8221;, &#8220;Bay Bea&#8221;, and &#8220;Carina&#8221; Bill Snaith, however was chosen to be the team captain, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=45\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Admiral&#8217;s Cup 1971<\/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":[92,66,64,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admirals-cup","category-cowes-week","category-fastnet-race","category-rorc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","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=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}