{"id":82,"date":"2008-09-27T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-27T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=82"},"modified":"2010-10-20T19:47:47","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T23:47:47","slug":"alan-bond-ben-lexen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"Alan Bond Ben Lexen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently a posting on Ebay of the deck plan of Courageous reminded me of a past memory.<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>Cowes Week 1975, We had been living in Cowes in an apartment over The Duke of York a pub at the top of the high street. Bob Miller aka Ben Lexen took over our lease. I left for the United States for the Trans-atlantic back to England. Leading up to that however, I spent time with Bob and Jack Knights, another great English sailor. <\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>We went to Speed Week in Weymouth to watch Crossbow and the other rather unique boats try to set speed records across a 500 meter circle.<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span>Upon returning to Cowes, where I sailed Cowes week aboard &#8220;Gitana&#8221; and the Fastnet on &#8220;Guia&#8221; Bob Miller and Alan Bond asked me to a meeting. I was being offered the job of building the 1977 challenger for the America&#8217;s Cup. I was quizzed on how I envisioned the project and finally the question arose; would I bring the plans of Courageous. I had built her the year before at Minneford&#8217;s in City Island and still possessed a set of plans. When I replied no the meeting was over. Many of my suggestions however were used in the building of Australia.<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space:pre\"> <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently a posting on Ebay of the deck plan of Courageous reminded me of a past memory. Cowes Week 1975, We had been living in Cowes in an apartment over The Duke of York a pub at the top of the high street. Bob Miller aka Ben Lexen took over our lease. I left for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=82\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alan Bond Ben Lexen<\/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":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","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=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}