{"id":5,"date":"2008-08-06T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T19:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=5"},"modified":"2008-08-06T19:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T19:38:00","slug":"chicago-mackinac-race-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"chicago-mackinac race 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SMfxQgcNelI\/AAAAAAAAA08\/jlom82d1c8E\/s1600-h\/IMGP3276.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SMfxQgcNelI\/AAAAAAAAA08\/jlom82d1c8E\/s320\/IMGP3276.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244425556984691282\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SMfxQxcLiiI\/AAAAAAAAA1E\/QwhgcxsmSm0\/s1600-h\/IMGP3280.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SMfxQxcLiiI\/AAAAAAAAA1E\/QwhgcxsmSm0\/s320\/IMGP3280.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244425561547967010\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SMfxRFLnkqI\/AAAAAAAAA1M\/MFh-JcWVDfE\/s1600-h\/IMGP3376.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SMfxRFLnkqI\/AAAAAAAAA1M\/MFh-JcWVDfE\/s320\/IMGP3376.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244425566847210146\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKiNNBSxkcI\/AAAAAAAAARc\/OQIRk9jGlMg\/s1600-h\/IMGP3276.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKiNNBSxkcI\/AAAAAAAAARc\/OQIRk9jGlMg\/s320\/IMGP3276.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235589821643198914\" \/><\/a>July 2007, I flew to Chicago to sail aboard the Farr 42 &#8220;Sue&#8221; belonging to Jim Moller. The Chicago-Mackinac race is advertised as the longest freshwater race in the world;effectively sailing the length of Lake Michigan.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKiNNKcUU8I\/AAAAAAAAARk\/r4KXor85Rbo\/s1600-h\/IMGP3280.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKiNNKcUU8I\/AAAAAAAAARk\/r4KXor85Rbo\/s320\/IMGP3280.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235589824099144642\" \/><\/a>Designed as an IRC boat, being sailed in a race conducted as an ORR race, we sailed well, finishing 15th boat for boat, but garnered no silver, on corrected time.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKiNNUHYi1I\/AAAAAAAAARs\/CiDOfc4MIz4\/s1600-h\/IMGP3376.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SKiNNUHYi1I\/AAAAAAAAARs\/CiDOfc4MIz4\/s320\/IMGP3376.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235589826695695186\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SJn-XyEnOhI\/AAAAAAAAAAc\/zxCr4JJI1Ps\/s1600-h\/1409543770_1da6d88e55.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SJn-XyEnOhI\/AAAAAAAAAAc\/zxCr4JJI1Ps\/s320\/1409543770_1da6d88e55.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231492126699108882\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Wonder Woman&#8221; was a much more amusing photo than one of me trimming the spinnaker. <\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>A great crew.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 2007, I flew to Chicago to sail aboard the Farr 42 &#8220;Sue&#8221; belonging to Jim Moller. The Chicago-Mackinac race is advertised as the longest freshwater race in the world;effectively sailing the length of Lake Michigan.Designed as an IRC boat, being sailed in a race conducted as an ORR race, we sailed well, finishing 15th &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=5\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">chicago-mackinac race 2007<\/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":[7,6,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chicago-mackinac-race","category-chicago-yacht-club","category-mackinac-island","category-sue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","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=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}