{"id":77,"date":"2008-09-21T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=77"},"modified":"2010-10-21T16:40:57","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T20:40:57","slug":"bill-shay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Bill Shay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SUrkNSnbfsI\/AAAAAAAABBc\/lK3Ayq7DUzo\/s1600-h\/bill+shay+2.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281284430031978178\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; cursor: hand; width: 220px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SUrkNSnbfsI\/AAAAAAAABBc\/lK3Ayq7DUzo\/s320\/bill+shay+2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SNZ4rByO8PI\/AAAAAAAAA6I\/MSs6mpMp02U\/s1600-h\/carina+bill+shay.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248515096355729650\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; cursor: hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SNZ4rByO8PI\/AAAAAAAAA6I\/MSs6mpMp02U\/s320\/carina+bill+shay.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Bill Shay was practically synonymous with the yacht &#8220;Carina&#8221; having sailed with the Nye family starting in 1956. Bill slept forward in the 1957 Fastnet race; which &#8220;Carina&#8221; won finishing when most of the fleet dropped out.<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"white-space: pre;\"> <\/span>I met Bill in 1969 when I sailed on &#8220;Carina&#8221; in the Trans-atlantic race to Ireland. He was a great shipmate always ready with a can do attitude.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SNZ4rTS0trI\/AAAAAAAAA6Q\/GDVFpksVvZU\/s1600-h\/carina+1970+shay:me.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248515101055825586\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; cursor: hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SNZ4rTS0trI\/AAAAAAAAA6Q\/GDVFpksVvZU\/s320\/carina+1970+shay:me.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SNZ4rf2JojI\/AAAAAAAAA6Y\/umKhP7iaKxU\/s1600-h\/1970+carina.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248515104425222706\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; cursor: hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SNZ4rf2JojI\/AAAAAAAAA6Y\/umKhP7iaKxU\/s320\/1970+carina.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Shay was practically synonymous with the yacht &#8220;Carina&#8221; having sailed with the Nye family starting in 1956. Bill slept forward in the 1957 Fastnet race; which &#8220;Carina&#8221; won finishing when most of the fleet dropped out. I met Bill in 1969 when I sailed on &#8220;Carina&#8221; in the Trans-atlantic race to Ireland. He was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=77\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bill Shay<\/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":[44],"tags":[2482,2401],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carina","tag-bill-shay","tag-carina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","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=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":770,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}