{"id":79,"date":"2008-09-23T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=79"},"modified":"2008-09-23T22:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T22:24:00","slug":"e-scow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"E scow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SNlszcNFtFI\/AAAAAAAAA7s\/-CGDrE4WaDU\/s1600-h\/File0004s.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/SNlszcNFtFI\/AAAAAAAAA7s\/-CGDrE4WaDU\/s320\/File0004s.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249346471677244498\" \/><\/a>The E scow is still my favorite monohull. I haven&#8217;t sailed one in years. They were still wood. Modern materials have made these boats even more dynamic. If the materials available today had been available 100 years ago the yacht designers and builders would have been on cloud 9. They had the ideas, the means of expression was limited.<\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>I owned one; here in Newport, however most of my E scow sailing was with Henry Bossett in New Jersey. We would trail his boat to Lake Murray, South Carolina at Easter break. It was always a great regatta, with a large turnout.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The E scow is still my favorite monohull. I haven&#8217;t sailed one in years. They were still wood. Modern materials have made these boats even more dynamic. If the materials available today had been available 100 years ago the yacht designers and builders would have been on cloud 9. They had the ideas, the means &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=79\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">E scow<\/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":[143,144,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barnagat-bay","category-e-scow-class","category-henry-bossett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","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=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}